February 2012
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Feb 9th
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Feb 6th
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Feb 6th
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Feb 6th
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Feb 4th
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‘El Wingador’ →
The filmmaker Errol Morris explores the excessive eating habits of “El Wingador,” a five-time champion of the Philadelphia Wing-Bowl.
Feb 4th
Feb 3rd
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Lester Bangs on Interviewing
notionmag: “Well basically I just started out to lead with the most insulting question I could think of. Because it seemed to me that the whole thing of interviewing as far as rock stars and that was just such a suck-up. It was groveling obeisance to people who weren’t that special, really. It’s just a guy, just another person, so what?”
Feb 2nd
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“It is the merit of European political scientists and sociologists to give a high...”
– M.S. Handler’s introduction to The Autobiography of Malcolm X
Feb 1st
January 2012
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Jan 30th
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Jan 27th
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Jan 26th
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Jan 21st
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ListenBob Dylan - Corrina, Corrina
Jan 20th
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Jan 16th
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“It becomes a tragic period in our nation when we equate dissent with disloyalty....”
– Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Jan 13th
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“I don’t live in the past at all; I’m always wanting to do something new. I make...”
– Brian Eno (via shelbot)
Jan 13th
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Jan 12th
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Jan 10th
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Jan 4th
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My Year in Cities 2011
Naples, FL North Kingston, RI Las Vegas, NV Yountville, CA Barcelona, Spain Bogotá, Colombia Buenos Aires, Argentina London, United Kingdom Whistler, British Colombia New York City, NY* Ocean City, NJ* Philadelphia, PA* * indicates cities visited multiple times on non-consecutive days. On the horizon for 2012: Jamaica, London. Entirely ripped-off/inspired by kottke.org.
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December 2011
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ListenJohn Lennon - Crippled Inside
Dec 30th
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Dec 30th
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Dec 28th
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“My first objection about mobile phones when they got popular was that everybody...”
– Merlin Mann on mobile phones (via Roderick on the Line)
Dec 28th
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ListenRoy Orbison - You Got It
Dec 20th
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Dec 19th
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Dec 13th
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Lists of Note: Take What You Need →
youmightfindyourself: Baseball player Don Carman had grown so tired of mundane post-game interviews by 1990 that he decided to forego them altogether, and instead attached a handwritten list of stock responses to his locker along with a message to reporters: “You saw the game. Take what you need.”  The list read as follows: 1. I’m just glad to be here. I just want to help the club any way I...
Dec 13th
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Dec 9th
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Dec 9th
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ListenActive Child - I’m In Your Church At Night
Dec 8th
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Dec 7th
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Dec 6th
“Nothing in the world can take the place of Persistence. Talent will not;...”
– Calvin Coolidge (via monamade)
Dec 6th
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Dec 5th
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November 2011
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Listeninternationalaffairsmusic: We’re playing a very...
Nov 30th
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Nov 30th
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ListenTom Waits - Way Down In The Hole Last night I...
Nov 28th
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“As the teen began to walk away, Diaz told him, “Hey, wait a minute. You forgot...”
– Julio Diaz, in a 2008 story about taking his would-be-mugger to dinner.This entire story was copied and pasted in its entirety to Tumblr, and reblogged over 60,000 times. I’m posting it again, with just a teaser, to properly attribute it back to NPR, where it originated. Please, don’t copy and paste...
Nov 25th
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Nov 24th
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Nov 24th
“I don’t write for catharsis; I have to write to understand.”
– Joan Didion last night at the New York Public Library [via flavorpill]  (via drinkyourjuice)
Nov 23rd
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Nov 23rd
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