January 2011
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nic-rad:
Which gets me to the tumblr paradox. It is a public space where people talk mostly to themselves.
Constant daydreamers feel at home here. That dictates the demographics a bit: users that are young enough to have time for constant daydreaming, or the castoffs, eccentrics, artists, thinkers, weirdos, self obsessed, over sensitive, lonely, hungry, diluted, under employed, self conscious,...
December 2010
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There have been three or four previous instances of pre-reviewing, but the first...
– Recently fired retired Bloomberg theater critic John Simon, uncensored.
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There have been three or four previous instances of pre-reviewing, but the first...
– Recently fired retired Bloomberg theater critic John Simon, uncensored.
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The Scene: Our Kitchen
[I am making Mac & Cheese, while my brother and mother play Bananagrams]
Mom: What are we listening to?
Me: Lorraine Hunt Lieberson singing Handel arias.
Mom: [makes grimacing face and shakes head no]
Me: You got to watch basketball each night you cooked, and you didn't hear me complaining.
Mom: Yeah, but this is...
Me: Handel has been quite successful for 300 years without your approval, thank you very much.
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It wouldn’t be Christmas without a Christmas greeting from Stritchy!
We’d like to get our hands on the entire 1980 movie—a Christmas ghost movie with Stritchy?!?—but the dude wanted to charge us 25 pounds… for a bootleg!
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It wouldn’t be Christmas without a Christmas greeting from Stritchy!
We’d like to get our hands on the entire 1980 movie—a Christmas ghost movie with Stritchy?!?—but the dude wanted to charge us 25 pounds… for a bootleg!
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coleescola:
“Portland is a city where young people go to retire.” ‘Bout sums it up.
Minus Fred Armisten, this looks amazing. (And also pretty much defines why we can’t don’t live in Portland anymore.)
coleescola:
“Portland is a city where young people go to retire.” ‘Bout sums it up.
Minus Fred Armisten, this looks amazing. (And also pretty much defines why I can’t don’t live in Portland anymore.)
Tenth severed human foot found on Pacific... →
popartinferno:
This is still happening, apparently.
There’s a wikipedia page, too.
Guess when we go to the beach with our family for rock and shell collecting on Christmas Day we have something new to keep an eye out for? Err…
Tenth severed human foot found on Pacific... →
popartinferno:
This is still happening, apparently.
There’s a wikipedia page, too.
Guess when we go to the beach with our family for rock and shell collecting on Christmas Day we have something new to keep an eye out for? Err…
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TOO PERSONAL?* by Tennessee Williams, 1972
The greatest danger, professionally, of becoming the subject of so many “write-ups” and personal appearances on TV and lecture platforms is that the materials of your life, which are, in the case of all organic writing, the materials of your work, are sort of telegraphed in to those who see you and to those who read about you. So, when you get to the serious organization of this...
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Well, [Sondheim: The Birthday Concert] was really divas on parade. They are each...
– Victoria Clark
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Well, [Sondheim: The Birthday Concert] was really divas on parade. They are each...
– Victoria Clark
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TOO PERSONAL?* by Tennessee Williams, 1972
The greatest danger, professionally, of becoming the subject of so many “write-ups” and personal appearances on TV and lecture platforms is that the materials of your life, which are, in the case of all organic writing, the materials of your work, are sort of telegraphed in to those who see you and to those who read about you. So, when you get to the serious organization of this...