May 2012
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Mr Obama has placed himself at the helm of a top secret...
– Obama’s “Kill List”
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Am I a good person? Deep down, do I even really want to be a good person, or do...
– David Foster Wallace, Consider the Lobster and Other Essays
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People often ask me what it takes to start a...
rosalarian:
The real question is, do you want to start a webcomic because you love making comics, or are you in it for the babes and piles of money?
You have to be in it for the babes and piles of money. That is the only reason to do it. “Liking comics” is not a good reason to start a webcomic.
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Lay It Down, Clowns! →
longformorg:
The Beastie Boys on tour in Los Angeles shortly after the release of their debut album, Licensed to Ill.
Chuck Eddy | Creem | May 1987
Classic piece I actually chose and transcribed for the CREEM anthology published by HarperCollins:
Earlier that evening, after Pee-Wee Herman had visited their dressing room and before they appeared on Joan Rivers’ show, the Beasties were tossing...
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Almost anybody can learn to think or believe or know, but not a single human...
– e.e. cummings
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Today, American conservatism has degenerated into an intellectually and morally...
– A Phoenix Rising: Common-Good Conservatism (via azspot)
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April 2012
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Beet Head,
Humans are clean slates. There are no qualities indigenous to men...
– Woody Allen to Diane Keaton, March, 1969.
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The Sorkin Way →
After writing two of the most interesting movies of the past several years (The Social Network and Moneyball), Aaron Sorkin has returned to television via HBO, which is premiering his dramatic series The Newsroom next month. On the set, as a blue-chip cast—including Jeff Daniels, Sam Waterston, Emily Mortimer, and Olivia Munn—revel in (and wrestle with) their dialogue, James Kaplan hears about...
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In order to do what you do, you need to walk. Walking is what brings the words...
– Paul Auster
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Prisoners, whose ranks increasingly consist of those for whom the legitimate...
– Sweatshop labor is back with a vengeance. (via motherjones)
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70% of Sunday news guests are Republicans →
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86% are male, 92% are white.
Between June 2011 and February of this year, 70 percent of all one-on-one interviewees on the four biggest political talk shows — NBC’s Meet the Press, ABC’s This Week, CBS’s Face the Nation and Fox News Sunday — were Republicans. The numbers were even more lopsided in favor of men and white guests:
Coupled with the news that came out earlier this week...
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