May 2011
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“There is no such thing as a person whose real self you like every particle of....”
– Jonathan Franzen’s op-ed in the NYTimes, “Liking Is for Cowards. Go for What Hurts.”
(via doree)
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Last Night I had an epiphany involving women and...
I think all women are capable of this, or what I really mean is, that women have this thing where we will, out of the blue, make up a song to whatever already existing tune may be kicking around in our brains. Maybe it’s only the women I know, or maybe men do this too, I don’t know. This is clearly an imperfect hypothesis.
The point is, I had this epiphany while I was waiting for...
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“I like em-dashes. They make life worth living.”
– Jonathan Gold (via rawkblog)
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“Every couple of years, Hollywood remembers that there’s this weirdly esoteric,...”
– Owen Gleiberman on the “surprise” success of Bridesmaids—and how it establishes Kristen Wiig as a triple-threat every bit as talented as Tina Fey. (via entertainmentweekly)
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“OFWGKTA”
– Unnecessary acronym of the day for rap group Odd Future Wolf Gang Kill Them All, care of Scott Plagenhoef’s review on Pitchfork.
Can’t you just call them Odd Future like everyone else?
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“It’s my experience that after high school (or, at latest, college), few...”
– Vadim Rizov’s response to Dan Kois’s recent article in The New York Times Sunday Magazine “Eating Your Cultural Vegetables”.
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