March 2010
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Magazine Preview - Can Animals be Gay? -... →
This article is super-great. Engagingly written (even if it overdoes it in spots) and full of fascinating factoids and weird personalities. Sure, the Jeff Koons stock-photo accompaniment is kinda weak, but whatevs: this is a great read.
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[Obligatory 'bro' reference]
tylercoates:
A couple guys ahead of me in Greenberg are doing that no homo thing of leaving an empty seat in between them. In fucking Greenberg.
(PS. Spoiler alert! Ben Stiller’s character is actually Jennifer Jason Leigh.)
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ARE YOU ACTUALLY POSTING TO TUMBLR FROM A MOVIE THEATRE WHILE THE MOVIE IS ON???
RE-EXAMINE YOUR LIFE CHOICES.
(Oh and thanks...
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The Temple of Do | Mother Jones →
COMPLETE AND UTTER MUST-READ: Where the hair in hair extensions comes from. The world is an insane place.
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THE SCOTT PILGRIM VS. THE WORLD TRAILER. FOR REAL.... →
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Michel Gondry on Lady Gaga: 'I'm Not Interested' →
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synecdoche:
To me it’s like a form of Marilyn Manson. It’s hard for me to talk about it; I’ve seen a couple of videos of hers, and not for very long. I stop watching them each time because I don’t think there’s melodies. I’m sorry to be negative. Like I’m not a big fan of Madonna. I respect her very much, but unfortunately the videos didn’t help the music in the long run. Well, I...
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Betting on the Blind Side: An excerpt from THE BIG... →
Another long must-read, a fantastic profile of one of the only investors in America who saw the 2007/2008 collapse coming, and bet squarely against it.
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What will the Supreme Court be like without... →
Today’s excellent long article to read.
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ABBA - “On And On And On” - Super...
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Day 13: A fictional book.
I know this question is probably meant to solicit a mention of a “fiction” book, maybe the one I’m reading now or the last one I read, but I instead prefer to go Jorge Luis Borges on it and name the non-existent book I most want to read. In which case, the leading candidates are the actual Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy or the Necronomicon.
In related news: this is the...
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I got nothing.: Lady Gaga vs. Beyonce →
barthel:
(via bonesarecoralmade)
Is the Internet trying to piss me off today, while I have work to do? Gaga is better than Beyonce? No. Here is what the Beyonce greatest hits album would look like:
Bills, Bills, Bills
Jumpin’, Jumpin’
Say My Name
Bootylicious
Survivor
Independent Woman Pt. 1
Check On It
Lose My Breath
Crazy In Love
Baby Boy
Irreplacable
Upgrade U
Ring the Alarm
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Philip K. Dick - Letter regarding Blade Runner →
Philip K. Dick died before Blade Runner was released, but he saw a snippet of the film in a TV news program and was blown away. What a wonderful thing to learn. And his grandiose predictions and extrapolations about the movie, as seen in this letter, were pretty much 100% spot-on. (Via Kottke)
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“Why should we assume everyone who says they find enjoyment in something...”
– (that was Marc H asking me)
Well, we’ve had this conversation before I think! My attitude is that we can’t easily know whether someone “genuinely believes it” or not when they share a piece of information online. So we have several possible strategies:
assume everybody is honest
assume nobody is...
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-3-7) →
Róisín Murphy (18)
Kylie Minogue (7)
Lady GaGa (3)
Marina & the Diamonds (2)
Young Money (1)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
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A Deal to Save the Everglades Could Rescue U.S.... →
Remember when I was all excited about the June 2008 deal meant to restore the natural water flow of the Everglades? Yeah. SIGH. Yeah.
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“There’s a prisoners’ dilemma problem with ad blockers, where it doesn’t matter...”
– Daring Fireball Linked List: Ken Fisher of Ars Technica on How Ad Blockers Hurt Revenue
This is something I don’t often think about, so I’m glad someone started talking about it. I have FlashBlock installed on pretty much every browser I use, both at work and at home, because Flash ads...
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Building a Better Teacher - NYTimes.com →
Today’s Sunday must-read, examining two areas in which many of America’s teachers are falling behind, classroom management and subject mastery, and the pilot programs that are working out how to address them. Incredibly important stuff. Education is a massive component of what’s breaking down in America these days, and it’s insane how neglected it’s been for decades.
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Superpowered.
As I have previously indicated on this blog (with my post about the last Annie album), I am an occasionally-rabid album re-sequencer. It’s something I generally only do with pop albums — I guess I’m subconsciously rockist that way — but I like the challenge of getting all A&R-y on a record I like but don’t love, combing through unused songs or bonus tracks to...
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This Is The Not-So-New Shit, March 2010
I normally don’t really pride myself on being an early adopter when it comes to music — like any music nerd I get a certain thrill from being ahead of the curve sometimes (I was at the first American shows of both M.I.A. and The Knife and damn it you’d better not forget it) but I’ll often leave “buzz” albums sitting off to the side for months before eventually...
New War Goal - To Let Women Reach Women -... →
This is pretty great. More like this, please.
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Ted Leo's Karaoke Song List (beta) →
bg5000:
I’ll be honest, i kinda wish i hadn’t seen this. “Mother”? “Neat Neat Neat”? Fucking “Pony”? So bummed i can’t be there.
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Nobody who is not me will be singing “Pony.”
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Day 05: Your favorite quote.
I can’t think of any one single maxim or quotation that jumps out at me, so today, we’re going to go with the Doc Savage Oath, which is pretty much as wonderful a non-theistic creed as I can imagine.
Let me strive every moment of my life to make myself better and better, to the best of my ability, that all may profit by it.
Let me think of the...
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A Theory Set in Stone: An Asteroid Killed the... →
Today’s crucial dinosaur-related content. (Via Phil Jimenez)
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Day 04: Your favorite book.
I’m gonna double-dip on this one a bit. One of my unanswered Formspring questions is about how I said I wouldn’t have gotten into comics professionally if it weren’t for Grant Morrison. There are two specific works of his that make me believe that. One is his run on JLA, which is one of the all-time great popcorn crowdpleaser superhero runs, and which introduced me to the DC...
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American Family Association: Stone To Death Killer... →
adeandabet:
drinkyourjuice:
The American Family Association, a religious right group, is urging that Tillikum (Tilly), the killer whale that killed a trainer at SeaWorld Orlando, be put down, preferably by stoning. Citing Tilly’s history of violent altercations, the group is slamming SeaWorld for not listening to Scripture in how to deal with the animal… However, the group is going further...
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-2-28) →
Ted Leo & the Pharmacists (13)
Goldfrapp (9)
Adam Lambert (7)
Moby (2)
Janet Jackson (2)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
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Shameless Promotion!
Hey all. FIRST WAVE #1, a comic I am deeply proud to have worked on, came out today, and we promoted it by doing a little “DC Comics Book Club” thing on Twitter, spearheaded by Geoff Johns & Jim Lee. Rags Morales, our amazing artist for the series, also joined in. You can check out the whole thread with the Twitter hashtag “#dcreader” — of course, it’s more...
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“My first choice is a strong consumer agency. My second choice is no agency at...”
– - Elizabeth Warren
If I started a “FuckYeahElizabethWarren” tumblr, would you follow?
(via hungryghoast)
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<3 <3 <3 Seriously, if this whole financial crisis can happen and we don’t even get a consumer-protection agency out of it, then...
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Day 03: Your favorite television program.
This one is the obvious follow-up to yesterday’s post, actually. My stock answer to this question is that I have a favorite comedy (Arrested Development) and a favorite drama (The Wire) and it’s impossible to choose between them, though certainly of the two The Wire has been more influential on my personal aesthetic re: narrative. Wow that was pretentious.
Anyway. I watch a lot more...
