January 2012
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The Origin and Copyright Protection of the Unknown... →
theoreticalgirl:
movingsideways:
And on the topic of Joy Division… I laughed at the tl;dr section.
If I can put on my teacher hat for a moment, this is also a great example of how to use Wikipedia as a starting point for research, instead of the final destination.
Maria also linked yesterday to Disney’s appropriation of this image (a mashup that makes absolutely no sense), and I...
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"It seems like every human interaction becomes a... →
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At the local bar with chalkboards in the bathrooms, I’ve started writing “ADS EVERYWHERE” any time someone spams a URL, even if it’s for a cutesy little arts or indie theater organization. Facebook is an amateur ad feed, and I suspect everyone will stop reading it in two years’ time. I currently work in marketing, but constant promotion leaves a bad...
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DYFL?: Fun Fact Of The Day →
dyfl:
Adele’s “Someone Like You” was co-written by the guy from Semisonic.
Not sure how I missed that until now…
How did I miss that? How did I miss all the coverage of the Minnesota connection? (The Strib published a couple of stories… but for some reason the Current never talks about it, which makes no sense, or maybe I just miss it, every time.*)
But, then, we also all more or...
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What does "trolling" mean to you?
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Chemical Brothers and Beth Orton - “Where Do...
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This is the New York Times obituary for the Czech... →
To prepare for my upcoming semester in Prague in 2003, I started reading all sorts of Czech writers. Amazon had recommended The Engineer of Human Souls, which is a badass title for a book, except for the fact that it is something Stalin said. Details are a bitch.
I don’t remember anything about that book except that I liked it, that it was thick, and that the knowledgeable, attractive...
December 2011
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The...
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What the hell happened this year?
Disclaimer: This post is entirely for me and is in no way intended to be good writing. You can start every sentence with “I” at the end of the year. It’s ok. It’s blogging!
Over the course of the past year, this blog has turned into more of a journal or an outlet than a place to build samples and ideas. That’s a good thing; it means I did a bunch of writing this...
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Lessons Learned in 2011
Just like you didn’t see 27 Dresses when it came out, begin avoiding 95% of writing that uses personal pronouns, which means almost everything online. It doesn’t matter if it’s written by someone you’ve met in real life, or in a publication you’ve read any liked before. If it’s someone who claims “my ‘I’ gives me transparency,” they are...
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Ted Leo / Pharmacists -...
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“I wish people understood that by buying new books at a deep discount they are...”
– Emily.
Yes. And this goes for music too. (Hey, remember the Oink Wars Of 2007?) And writing in general. And I’m sure it’ll start applying to TV shows and movies once the bandwidth opens wide enough.
(via maura)
Yes! And here is a perfect example of how to link to a good point but not link to a...
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Eggnog for One: How to Impress Your Date
All right, kids. I don’t normally dispense romantic advice on this here blog because I like to keep the house secrets as house secrets, but it’s the holidays and I’m feeling generous. One of the benefits of having worked at a cocktail bar for a year and a half is that I can always make conversation at a house party, and then I can get you drunk on something slightly more...
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Is there a good guide to MN Etsy shops? What are...
Not stuff that’s dripping with Minnesota twee, just good stuff that I’d actually want to buy another person.
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November 2011
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The Public Insight Network →
Is pretty cool.
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Notes on a Lifetime of Superfundanceparties
1. Tonight I am going to a dance party, one that, like many dance parties of the past, advertises itself as “new wave / no wave / britpop” (oh cheeky cheeky, oh naughty sneaky). The dj at the party will play Blondie and Franz Ferdinand and Duran Duran and Joy Division, and most importantly, the party is named after a Pulp deep cut that I downloaded onto my desktop with Napster my...
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In the complete fantasy world of the Muppets, a... →
What is certain: “The Muppets” — as underscored by how Walter came to life — is a rare example of the corporate committee getting out of its own way and letting the creative folks take the lead.
They came up with a white guy. Way to go, creative folks.
But Disney executives, perhaps partly because they were distracted by a painful studio restructuring at the time, did not manhandle the...
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Other things to read today
If I still taught publications editing, I would teach this article by Maura.
I was just making jokes about the <blink> tag, but this blog post by Lisa Peters (new discovery!) uses it well. It is about grammar and neighborhood development, so of course I like it.
I try to tell myself to dismantle the patriarchy, eat local food, cut back on dairy and red meat, and generally cook at home,...
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Mayor R.T. Rybak is my favorite because he used to... →
Jeff Severns Guntzel’s profile of Minneapolis and mayor is local writing in a national magazine I can get behind, especially since Good has deleted the phrase “small town” from the headline. Gotta love R.T., and also St. Paul Mayor Chris Coleman. They are two pretty extraordinary gentlemen.
I can’t believe no one has written children’s books about the mayors of the...
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“This article has been revised to reflect the following correction:
Correction:...”
– What a great correction.
You are culturally relevant if Tom Gauld illustrates your thoughts; you are culturally irrelevant if you mix up Snow White and Sleeping Beauty, and if you forget that Mulan came out when you were in high school because you’re thinking about your own cultural...
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October 2011
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