January 2011
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“His stark realization that he was condemned to a loveless future of disease,...”
– Robert Pogue Harrison, on 19th Century poet Giacomo Leopardi
Jan 30th
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Jan 29th
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Jan 29th
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We were recently asked why, given the opportunity to have any magazine subscription, we would choose The New York Review of Books. Besides wanting to financially support the publication whose (non-paywall) articles we were already printing out at work (we can’t really read anything anything longer than a blog post on a computer screen), we also now have access to the paywall articles and are able...
Jan 28th
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Jan 27th
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Jan 27th
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Jan 25th
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Jan 24th
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Jan 23rd
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Jan 23rd
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Jan 22nd
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J-E-T-S! JETS JETS JETS!
“So just went through the drive thru at the bank. A new cute, very feminine teller asks… ‘Do you have any special plans for the weekend?’ Me: (Long pause as I think about my weekend.) Only football. Teller: What did you say? Me: Football playoffs on Sunday. Teller: “You’re my kind of woman!!! Who are you for?” Me: “The Jets”. Teller:...
Jan 22nd
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Jan 22nd
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Jan 21st
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Jan 21st
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“Went to Lester Persky’s Hair premiere at the Ziegfeld. Then got into the...”
– Andy Warhol, 1979
Jan 20th
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Jan 19th
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Jan 19th
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Jan 17th
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Jan 17th
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“‘The next thing I know, these three managers in tails turn up, each with a...”
– Elaine Stritch, who seems to have, among other eccentricities, an obsession with things staying very hot (“We’re back at the hotel and she’s tucking into two bowls of carrot soup, served at her request in paper cups with lids because they retain the heat better.”) or very cold...
Jan 12th
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“‘The next thing I know, these three managers in tails turn up, each with a...”
– Elaine Stritch, who, among other eccentricities, seems to have an obsession with things staying very hot (“We’re back at the hotel and she’s tucking into two bowls of carrot soup, served at her request in paper cups with lids because they retain the heat better.”) or very cold...
Jan 12th
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“A musical is what happens when text collides with motion collides with song...”
– George C. Wolfe Fairly certain we would play the Nora Ephron role in this discussion of the greatest musical of all time; we also consider the high placement of The King and I to be sacrilege, particularly after the early dismissal of Kiss Me, Kate.
Jan 11th
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Jan 11th
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Jan 11th
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Jan 10th
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Jan 10th
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Jan 10th
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Jan 10th
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Jan 8th
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Jan 8th
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Jan 8th
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Jan 8th
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Jan 8th
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Jan 8th
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Jan 8th
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Jan 8th
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Jan 8th
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Jan 6th
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Jan 6th
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Jan 6th
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Jan 4th
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Jan 4th
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“Jorge and Pablo drove me to the station that night. Pablo seemed preoccupied as...”
– Colm Tóibín, The Story of the Night
Jan 4th
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“Jorge and Pablo drove me to the station that night. Pablo seemed preoccupied as...”
– Colm Tóibín, The Story of the Night
Jan 4th
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Jan 4th
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Jan 4th
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,...
Jan 2nd
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“An encore of our interview with the great Elaine Stritch, now starring on...”
– Well, hello there Austin, Texas! The unattributed pull quote that keeps on giving.
Jan 2nd
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“An encore of our interview with the great Elaine Stritch, now starring on...”
– Well, hello there Austin, Texas! The unattributed pull quote that keeps on giving.
Jan 2nd