June 2012
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The Mollification of Manhattan:
One of the upsetting things about Urban Blight 2.0 is the sense that the physics of money suddenly feels inadequate and outdated. I used to think that retail space was rented out by stores that sold things—if they sold enough of that thing they could pay the rent and even have something left over. Yes, a flagship store can be a loss leader, but some rudimentary...
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RIP WRITING →
RIP WRITING
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can't wait for months and months of obsessing over...
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oh my god this new wye oak song !@#@!# ! @ ! ! ! ... →
<3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3
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“In 1983, the park officially changed its name from Storytown USA to The Great...”
– If this is true it explains SO MUCH about what I saw on my local expressways and parkways while growing up.
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Tall-hot-blonde-internet-love-triangle-left-man-sho...
Tall-hot-blonde-internet-love-triangle-left-man-shot-dead-jealous-rival.html
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“AVC: On the other end of the spectrum, as far as the length of the show’s run,...”
– Today’s most important interview exchange.
Also last night I saw a season-eight Law & Order episode that I’d never seen before!!!!
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“Mr. MacFarlane is best known as the creator of “Family Guy,” an animated...”
– LOVE U AO SCOTT
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Is there any way people can pay Tumblr to *not*...
Asking for a friend.
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“That, to me, is so important: my integrity, my words.”
– Mm hmm.
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YES YES YES TO ALL OF THIS →
katherinestasaph for president of awesometown
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things i learned last night. →
sammy hagar has a chain of beachfront bars that specialize in two-foot-high cocktails. another house specialty: playing sammy hagar songs on the pa.
(honestly when i walked in and realized that a solo hagar song was playing on ‘latin night’ i started laughing, thinking that it was some cabo wabo tequila-related joke. but no, i was just there too early. which was nice actually! saw...
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a response to the august 2012 atlantic monthly's...
Here is the important thing about social media and loneliness: So many people in this letters section have said “but the Internet makes me less lonely” and “well, I’ve met more people because of the Internet.” And yes. Those are both true, especially for the wordy haughty (and possibly too self-impressed?) types of people who read The Atlantic. (Present company...
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oh well →
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Cashbox's Top 100 Singles, February 24, 1990 →
I read somewhere that Jaya’s version of “If You Leave Me Now” had its chart peak in February 1990, and, well, I had to do some research. THE RESULTS MIGHT REVEAL SOME THINGS ABOUT ME FYI.
(The Jaya “Leave” is one of the 16 songs from the chart not on Spotify and therefore not on the playlist. Snif.)
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frisson : \frē-ˈsōⁿ\ a brief moment of emotional...
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“The primary “other factor” is the fact that there are too many artists competing...”
– So much to chew on in this piece but it’s 7:17 on a Friday and I have pre-trip laundry to do. SAVING IT FOR THE BUS.
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Cool Date: A Night of Twitter Poetry
heatheriswatching:
New York! I’m excited to announce the launch of Cool Date: A Night of Twitter Poetry, July 10, 9 p.m. at Cake Shop.
The lineup will include… @aRealLiveGhost @gregerskine @leh0n @PIZZASHAMAN @dry_hugs @important_celeb + a short piece by @TPHD
It’ll be a fun night of stories, poems, and an audio-visual piece or two. There’s also a bar. And air conditioning.
If you don’t...
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“Now that I have summoned it, please allow me a minute to talk about...”
– You should really read Stephen Swift’s First Worsts entry on “Kokomo,” And if you did already, you should read it again.
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dj night at 285 kent, 21 june 2012
my favorite - absolute zero
lissy trullie - it’s only you isn’t it
helium - what institution are you from?
high places - head spins
joy formidable - I don’t want to see you like this
life without buildings - pop life
micachu - holiday
the slits - I heard it through the grapevine
cherelle - I didn’t mean to turn you on
esg - moody
donna summer - dim all the lights
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“Twitters broke, my life has no meaning anymore,” one user wrote on the...”
– JOURNALISM GUYS
(also lol was that person even serious)
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also what is up with the atlantic being the go-to...
just wondering
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all this chatter about women 'having it all' is...
sigh
(thanks for the copyedit emily)
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““I’m on Twitter, and I have a website,” says Deschanel, who...”
– TEAM ELAINE, OBV
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“What did the narrator in the song “Ride the Lightning” do to end up on death...”
– As a preview for this weekend’s Orion Music + More Festival, put together by Metallica, Chris Steffen talked to James Hetfield and Kirk Hammett about the two albums the thrash titans are playing in full—Ride the Lightning and Metallica (aka The Black Album.) Their chat about Ride The Lightning is up...
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