February 2012
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David Byrne - I Wanna Dance With Somebody (Whitney...
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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.
Lester Bangs on Interviewing
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“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?”
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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
January 2012
14 posts
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Bob Dylan - Corrina, Corrina
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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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“I don’t live in the past at all; I’m always wanting to do something new. I make...”
– Brian Eno (via shelbot)
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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.
December 2011
19 posts
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John Lennon - Crippled Inside
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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)
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Roy Orbison - You Got It
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Lists of Note: Take What You Need →
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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...
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Active Child - I’m In Your Church At Night
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“Nothing in the world can take the place of Persistence.
Talent will not;...”
– Calvin Coolidge (via monamade)
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November 2011
18 posts
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internationalaffairsmusic:
We’re playing a very...
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Tom Waits - Way Down In The Hole
Last night I...
“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...
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