October 2008
25 posts
Artists and their surrogates who fall into the trap of seeking recompense for every possible second use end up attacking their own best audience members for the crime of exalting and enshrining their work. The Recording Industry Association of America prosecuting their own record-buying public makes as little sense as the novelists who bristle at autographing used copies of their books for...
Margaret Atwood of the day...
rach:
You fit into me
like a hook into an eye
a fish hook
an open eye
Let's talk about wealth redistribution
cremefracas:
squashed:
The Drudge Report and the shrinking armada of the conservative bloggers and commentators are pretty excited about a 2001 audio clip where Obama talks about the civil rights movement, what it got right, and what it might have gotten better. In the clip, he used the phrase “redistribution of wealth.” Run for the cellar, Liza! A black man said “redistribution”! He’s going...
Watchnoraleah:
Don Draper’s Guide to Picking Up Women
WatchI need to do this
cubicle17:
“My Day, Yesterday”
I’ve been really enjoying the videos from Garrett Murray’s Flickr group My Day, Yesterday, so I decided to make my own. Given that this is the first time I’ve ever shot video with my camera and the first time I’ve ever made a movie of any kind, I think it turned out OK.
After all was said and done, I’d shot more video than I needed, and cut...
“all i am saying is the website can now be your album, an ongoing ever-changing...”
– Third Eye Blind’s Stephan Jenkins in response to Tyler Coates on Idolator (via soupsoup, hipsterdiet)
I used this song for a 50th anniversary sideshow I...
"Is there something wrong with being a Muslim in...
I had a similar reaction, I was right with him until he said he talked about his reasoning. While I understand that the picture probably just drove home emotionally what Powell already believed, he should have realized that his first statements could have easily stood on their own.
If he really felt that some justification was necessary then a remedial explanation of basic human decency would...
In Search of the Perfect Cebiche →
Apparently ceviche is “catching on around the world.” I hope this is true. It was a consistently great dish in Mazatlan. Even at bad restaurants it was the best thing on the menu, probably because everyone has access to super fresh fish.
“Love has been sweetened in popular culture so much that you have forgotten what...”
– Orhan Pamuk, Nobel-Prize winning author, at the Frankfurt Book Fair. (via ewilcox)
because I voted today, but I wouldn’t say...
perfect for the end of a nice but sad (because...
What's Your Tumblr Number?
joelaz:
Tumblr assigns a sequential number to each site on their service. The lower the number, the older the site. To find your number, login to Tumblr, go to the Following Page, then click on the name of your site in the top right corner of the screen just below the “log out” link. Now, look at the URL in your browser address bar and note the number at the end of the URL. Mine looks like...
“Say it ain’t so, Joe, there you go again pointing backwards again. You...”
– Sarah Palin, in the VP debate (via The Daily Dish, mattlehrer) noraleah:
This was really her shining moment, the crescendo, the stuff parodists’ dreams are made of. That said, she made more sense here than she did trying to explain her position on climate change.
mareen:
zachklein:
Midlake - Roscoe (acoustic)
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