February 2010
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#4: Movies Aimed at Me, 2009
I can’t get CBS on my antenna, so here’s some writings.
Sometimes, on the Internet, I say that I am going to do things that I don’t always do. This is so that you, dear friends, will think I’m cooler and more popular than I actually am. (I’m just joking; it’s usually because I write my blog posts about future plans right before I check my bank account and find out I’m broker than...
January 2010
62 posts
Beverly Washburn - “Everybody Loves Saturday...
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Obituary, in memoriam, etc., et al.
Public Art Proposal Contest, January 2010:... →
stuffaboutminneapolis:
Artist Jeff Lohaus chewed on a few ideas before settling on a project that would honor both his northeast Minneapolis neighborhood’s East European heritage and the diversity of its latest immigrants.
He came up with this: a majestic, 17-foot pedestal of bronze and brick, placed on the corner of Central and Lowry Avenues and topped by … drumroll, please … a pierogi.
As an...
Liz Phair - “Shitloads of Money”
At...
She knows that it's demanding to defeat those evil...
Not planning on blogging much today, but in case you wanted to know what I’m thinking about:
This makes me wish that The Corporation were a well-made movie so people would have actually watched it and recognized that corporations are not equal to individuals. It makes me want to spit and curse.
Here is a decent article on digital labor by Jonathan Zittrain. It’s very Newsweeky, but...
“…it makes me sad that so many of our supposed “thought leaders” aren’t...”
– Kaeti’s very adept response to that Clay Shirky post, which you’ve read or you haven’t. Any time you post something titled “A Rant About Women,” obviously you are going to get a lot of attention for your idiocy.
What bothers me about that “Rant” is the...
"The over-arching theme would be freedom." →
Have you been wondering about the growing number of cats lingering at the feet of the Statue of Liberty? Questioned whether the U.S. was just trying to emulate the great monuments of Rome and Athens by adding feline friends?
Have you heard from the shrill, unsatisfied voice from the harbor at 9pm asking you to keep it down, she’s trying to sleep? And all the while, you still hear some...
Wednesday Morning Dance Party: Pet Shop Boys -...
A quick dissection of some research and two news...
A new Pew study on the benefits of marriage and education on individuals’ income found that, since 1970, married men gained significant economic benefits compared to unmarried men. There is still a huge wage gap, wherein women make somewhere between 70 and 80 percent of what men make, but overall, married men, married women, and unmarried women have made significant economic gains since 1970.
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I'm with Rachel Hutton on this one. →
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This is one of those things that I read and I think, “Wow, I must be a snobby, overly polite Northeasterner because they keep lollipops on the bar in Wisconsin?!? What the fuck?”
I can’t look without being watched, no.
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The Ruby Suns - “Cranberry”
Friends,...
Update: "A Spanish lawmaker says he was stunned to... →
The FBI can’t just make up photos out of thin air, you know. That’s why we have the Google, Creative Commons, fair use, and all that.
me: when you search for “Gaspar Llamazares” on Google Images it’s pretty much the same thing they just changed the facial hair and made the eyes droopier Hungryghoast: so Osama Bin Laden is Gaspar Llamazares after his first semester...
WatchNew Law Requires Women To Name Baby, Paint Nursery Before Getting Abortion
http://deborahcarver.com →
Here I am, Internet. I’m not “just a blogger” anymore.
This reminds me of that scene in How to Lose a Guy... →
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"Consider it my pure but well-founded speculation... →
southtwelfth:
Jonathan’s first-person account of the earthquake from Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Very powerful.
On Tuesday night I stumbled in to read about the earthquake and found the sentence about being “accustomed to tragedy,” emailing the lede to my friend with who I discuss the news. It was cryptic and odd, and part of me thought it was constructed by someone in the States...
“What’s not clear, however, is whether Haitians are using these technologies to...”
– From PC World, quoted in this CJR post by Curtis Brainard about the role of social media in the aftermath of the Haitian earthquake.
Wednesday Morning Dance Party: Liz Phair with...
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#3: "...why should I desire change, I who have...
I am finally reading John Banville’s The Sea, which I bought in Waynesville, the seat of Haywood County, North Carolina. Three years later, all of the other North Carolina books (about 10 total) remain mushy in my mind, but the one about Haywood County—the book that was so poorly written it made me whine to an epic extent—was the only one that inspired a visit.
The night before I drove to the...
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Les Savy Fav - “Knowing How the World...
"oh um so does this mean you're gonna be visiting... →
Craig alerts me to the arrival of the Kathleen Hanna papers at Fales.
Researching in the Downtown Collection was like hanging out with the real cool kids, the ones who would taunt you mercilessly when they saw you, armed only with a pencil, drooling over the poetry they wrote when they were high in zines stapled together from mimeographs. Oh archives, I miss you.
“The most recent issue has a pretty nice article about Vincent van Gogh, Paul...”
– Annotations: the society of sure things!
Y’all follow Mike, right? Because he’s hilarious.
andyinabox asked: Wouldn't you rather be watching funny videos of cats?
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A couple months ago I went to see a contemporary...
urbanfoodie asked: If you wrote the screenplay for the biopic of any feminist in history, who would it be? And who would you cast in the lead role?
urbanfoodie asked: Okay, now a food one - what are you going to do with that duck you got at the Mill City FM?!?
ashliej asked: Can I be your friend? I like your style.
Also, what is with all this question-asking going around the internets?
Also, what is with all this question-asking going around the internets?
You can ask me questions this way now. →
Will I answer them?
Update: Tumblr keeps deleting all of my saved changes. Sad.