December 2011
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November 2011
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October 2011
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September 2011
3 posts
“I have a general suspicion of big theme movies—when you look at big...”
– http://www.villagevoice.com/2011-09-14/film/you-cannot-send-shit-through-the-internet-and-other-life-lessons-from-critic-dave-kehr/2/
August 2011
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Book Club Ideas for The Help by Kathryn Stockett
joereid:
http://www.suite101.com/content/book-club-ideas-for-the-help-by-kathryn-stockett-a187407
No bookclub gathering is complete without a few killer desserts. Fortunately, food plays an important part in The Help and can serve as inspiration when planning refreshments.
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Chocolate pie is another food central to the plot of the story. Bookclub members who like to bake may enjoy...
marathonpacks: A Defense of John Maus and Bratty... →
marathonpacks:
Yesterday, Pitchfork ran its “Guest List” feature with John Maus. Subsequently, I and a few other people took umbrage at Maus’s tone through the piece. Not so much an interview as a formulaic, often fun “tell me your favorites” piece, it rubbed Maus the wrong way after a bit. To wit, when…
Justin Purnell: DCM Blowout: August 10, 2011 →
purns:
schoolnight:
TODD BARRY 4 SEXUALLY ATTRACTIVE INDIVIDUALS ROGUE ELEPHANT MC CHRIS DOPPELGANGER KROMPF JANEANE GAROFALO
As I mentioned at last night’s show (and hopefully have told you in person already), this will be my last regularly hosted School Night for a while, as I’ll be out of…
Lindsay Robertson: Some Delirious Notes on The Pop... →
lindsayrobertson:
So on Saturday, 24 couples who couldn’t get married before this week did so in Central Park, in 24 customized ceremonies, surrounded by friends and family, for free. It was amazing and beautiful and heartwarming and more perfect than anyone dreamed it could be. In the five weeks since Bex,…
July 2011
3 posts
Split Infinitives: Rango and Expectation →
seanfennessey:
Rango is inessential. It’s a matter of expectations tumbling around. Listmaking possibilities. Questions pressuring you. Do I need to see an animated lizard voiced by Johnny Depp reenact Sergio Leone’s masterpieces in a movie that has no target demographic? A Greek chorus of mariachi…
McNally Jackson Bookmongers: The DFW-Eugenides... →
mcnallyjackson:
Since today is things vaguely related to DFW day on the McNJ tumblr, yesterday over on New York’s Vulture blog Willa Paskin posited that Leonard, a character from Jeffrey Eugenides’ forthcoming novel The Marriage Plot, is based on David Foster Wallace. And she’s right! And not just because he…
June 2011
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April 2011
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Lindsay Robertson: Jezebel must be on its period. →
lindsayrobertson:
Um, not only did I not think this joke on The Soup was misogynist, I thought it was funny, and while watching the “Pregnant in Heels” episode in question I thought the exact same thing! (I mean, who didn’t? It’s not misogynist at all. It could be easily gender-reversed if, uh, I dunno, a dude…
March 2011
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Watch(via from the archives – Spalding Gray – RUMSTICK ROAD – 1977)
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February 2011
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January 2011
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December 2010
6 posts
Also obviously
“Intel suspects the tough talk is affected and the ladies are fronting, but still.”
In Response to a Fellow Journalism Adjunct...
This episode points to me to a larger issue I’ve noticed my students struggling with — or, rather, that I struggle with on my students’ behalf, as they seem blithely unconcerned about it: My students don’t have the urgent desire to know things before other people — or at least coincident with other people — that drove so many of us into journalism in the first...
November 2010
4 posts
GIRLS ARE PRETTY: The Boyfriend Pact Day! →
girlsareprettyforever:
You and your girlfriends have made a pact that you’re all going to have steady boyfriends by the end of your senior year. It’s going to be a fun, crazy time as you and your friends go on date after date with geek after geek, trying to decide how low you’ll go to make sure you honor your pact and…
October 2010
4 posts
Kushner’s ‘Angels in America’ Inspires Courses,... →
The summer after my junior year in college I spent my last $40 on tickets to Part 2*. I walked from 7th Street and Avenue D, where I was crashing with a friend whose apartment was so dire there were mushrooms growing from the floor underneath my futon, to 48th Street, for the 8:00 show, only to discover when I arrived that the show was at 2:00 instead. Then I walked all the way back.
That is to...
September 2010
8 posts
Hogwarts Finally Hooks Up the Internet →
I worked harder on this nerdsplosion than I have worked on anything in a long, long time.
In summary: talking owls. And the owls do look... →
natashavc:
OWL EUGENICS.
Fluxtumblr: The Tale Of When Bob Nastanovich Met... →
perpetua:
The other night when I was on John Everhart’s Newtown Radio show, he shared a story that Bob Nastanovich had told him in an interview a while back. I’m going to share it with you here, and you can pass it along like folklore. You know, the oral tradition. Bob Nastanovich should be a kind of folk…
On Recaps
Look, I know recaps are “as ephemeral as a fart,” as Hank Stuever put it today on Facebook, and that Choire hates them, and that they’re traffic bait, and whatnot. But they’re not just a way for freelancers to get $100 and some legit clips. They’re a way to build a critical writing style! It is hard to find a way to get paid to write criticism, much less criticism...