December 2010
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“My New Year’s Eve Toast: to all the devils, lusts, passions, greeds, envies,...”
– Patricia Highsmith, New Year’s Eve, 1947
(via: buffleheadcabin & mlq3)
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On Black Swan, Immediately after Seeing Black Swan
1. Winona Ryder needs to be in every movie.
2. I agree with the critique that Black Swan is a bad movie, made very well. That is what Darren Aronofsky does! I have no problem with it!
3. I am not stupid enough to apply any kind of feminist critique to this movie other than “Well, that was gazey” but wouldn’t it have been a lot more interesting if Nina had lived in a normal...
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My favorite song in 2010: Joanna Newsom -...
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Breaking Habits, Brand New Year
Before I am about to work on something very seriously, very hard, I tend to write a blog post, or think about writing a blog post. I have actually been meaning to write this particular post for several days, but it was Christmas and all and I was only working semi-seriously, semi-hard, and then there’s the fact that no one really wants to read or write about internet feminism on Christmas....
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“Young girls are always showing me their diamond engagement rings. “Look,...”
– The interview with Fran Lebowitz was the best part of the December Bust. It’s full of ridiculously good quotables and convinced me to put her essays on my immediate reading list. (The rest of Bust was a little too crafty for me, except for the interview of Sofia Coppola by Kim Gordon, which...
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Bob Dylan and Emmylou Harris - “Romance in...
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Fourteen years ago
Or some such time is when I received Exile in Guyville for Christmas or my birthday or what have you.
This means I have lived half my life without ever hearing the album to which Liz Phair responded, Exile on Main Street. Until tonight.
It’s a Rolling Stones year, friends.
Snowmodern.
Erica: i know, our lives are now controlled by parking restrictions or the threat of parking restrictions
Deb: we are in the panopticon, and it is a snowglobe
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The Please Explain Why You Like This List 2010
There are a lot of things I like and a lot of things I don’t like. For the most part, I can articulate why people like certain cultural things that I don’t like. But sometimes there are mysteries, phenomena that are extremely popular the leave me scratching my head.
Please explain why you like these things.
Instagram, Hipstamatic. Your cell phone pictures already look crappy enough.
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An experiment.
Let’s see what happens if I don’t drink for a long time. Let’s see what happens when I don’t waste weeks of my life waking up hung over.
Sure, I’m able to control it, but not all the time. It’s evident that a lot of the time I can’t drink like a normal person. I’m too old for this shit. I have too many things to do. I vomited in my sleep last...
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The Only Titles on TMN's Tournament of Books Long...
Savages
Kapitoil
Illustrato
Private Life
Foreign Bodies
Beatrice and Virgil
Matterhorn: A Novel of the Vietnam War
Sleepless
Bloodroot
Safe from the Sea
The Finkler Question
The Long List is here. Half the reason I rarely read contemporary literature is the industry’s inability to title. And also Contemporary Literature.
And really, the only ones I like on that list are Safe...
Wednesday Early Afternoon Dance Party: Songs I...
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“I’d be in pitch meetings, and I’d say, ‘Did you notice that there was only one...”
– Geena Davis and her Institute on Gender in Media have done some fantastic research and activism highlighting the need for more girls in children’s movies.
Songs I Really Liked in 2010: Phosphorescent -...
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"In fact, as often as not, the Democratic nominee... →
How is this a “new study”? Isn’t this based on easily available historical data (is there even enough information there to call it data) that a high schooler could put together?
Also, maybe you could link to the study, New York Times. And you started a sentence with “in fact.”
Anyway, we probably lost that bid because of that whole “collapsing stadium...
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“Joel set a motorcycle-scooter helmet down next to his brother’s bicycle helmet,...”
– The good copy is almost negated by the use of the word “spinster” in the next paragraph, but not quite.
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TCR on TPT →
twincitiesrunoff:
Twin Cities Runoff was featured on TPT’s Almanac this week for our slow-cooker journalism. Check it out! We are as cool as WikiLeaks and as finely trimmed as Tina Smith’s haircut.
My former adviser is amazing.
For the record, I’ve always thought that TPT’s logo makes it look like an angry emoticon.
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Are you annoyed at how people are writing about... →
Amanda Marcotte articulates well.
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“More importantly, however, he probably also knows that if he gets rid of the red...”
– As a woman who has had an affinity (and a corollary that approaches disgust) for several red beards over her short life, today’s Morning News essay got me all giggly and ecstatic here in South Minneapolis.
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The Real Danger Behind KD Cubes: Story at 11 →
My favorite story in today’s New York Times was not about how men will not like me if I make more money than them (although the best part of that story was how they suggested dating artists and academics because they would be less shallow hahaha), nor was it the story on port (not my favorite). It was not even the recipe for the Chinaski, which looks as delicious to the seasoned classic...
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Janelle Monáe - “Come Alive (The War of the...