June 2012
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The Halfway Review
So far this year I’ve:
Gotten a job that is akin to a dream job, my first job doing what I want to do that comes equipped with health insurance.
Gone to Las Vegas, Chicago and Boston.
Really started following AP for good this time in re: serial comma usage.
Learned that I liked some Robert Altman movies (Nashville) more than others (Shortcuts).
Finally watched all three Bourne films,...
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“Take notes,” Nora Ephron’s mother advised her as a child. “Everything is copy.”
– Nora Ephron, prolific author and screenwriter, dies at age 71 - The Washington Post
That is a great lede for this obit.
(via heathalouise)
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“I’m always super-conscious of how whenever I go out into the world, whenever I...”
– Why Go Out? by Sheila Heti
I really liked this lecture. Read all the way to the end.
(via kaeti)
Sheila Heti’s been in my periphery lately, and her Q&As were good, but this piece was better, and boy will I buy her book because all you really need to do is have one really good piece of...
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The End of the A.V. Club Twin Cities →
Just like all the shit that happened at Good magazine, and other layoffs that have plagued good publications and good writers in the past few weeks, the shuddering of the A.V. Club makes me sad. It’s a shame. I’ll admit: I found A.V. Club a bit snarky and collegiate to visit regularly, but I also think there were a lot of opportunities for young writers to explore some great territory...
Minneapolis: Let's go crazy. Let's get nuts. →
east-lake:
Just a few thoughts on a great piece over at Fight with Knives
1. I love that the entire Twin Cities area is basically just referenced as Minneapolis. As it should be. :)
2. “No one neighborhood is cooler than any other neighborhood.” I’m guilty of this more than nearly everyone, as I love to rip St. Paul and Northeast, but for me it’s all in fun. I fully understand that Minneapolis...
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Swamplandia.
I read five chapters of Swamplandia! and I am about to abandon it, with all its precious nicknames that have no verisimilitude. It reads like the MFA thesis of someone who has never been fucked with or fucked with anyone and really thinks the company of her own imagination is the peachiest place on earth. If you’re going to go through an MFA program, at least have a year where you make...
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“Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker can’t avoid union troubles, even when...”
– Can we talk about how mindless this story is and why the reporter should probably be blacklisted?
Did you know the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union was still around? No, you didn’t, because they took it out of the AP Stylebook a number of years ago because, hey, Scott Bauer,...
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Watchtheoreticalgirl:
I pretty much dislike professional sports for a variety of reasons, but today my co-workers and I went to the Phillies home game against the LA Dodgers. (I can’t complain about a free ticket to anything and getting out of the office!) There was little joy to be had in Mudville today, save for this totally baffling celebrity appearance. Paula Abdul danced to her 1989 hit single...
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“Six of us were fired on Friday. After that, two additional editorial staffers...”
– TOMORROW:
This whole thing depresses me more than I’d like to admit, but at least it demonstrates quite adeptly that all the “Good” and “future positive” stuff is all for the pageviews. “Community” means “we profit from your free labor.”...
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Songs on the Spotify "50 Shades" Playlist that...
“The Scientist” by Coldplay
“I Say a Little Prayer” by Aretha Franklin
“Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring” by Philippe Entremont
“Lover, You Should’ve Come Over” by Jeff Buckley
“Your Song” by Ellie Goulding
“Moondance” by Van Morrison
“This City Never Sleeps” by the Eurythmics
“You’ll...
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Lydgate is the apotheosis of the late-20s dude,...
Signs point to my finishing Middlemarch, which I’ve been reading since March 1, over the weekend, if not tonight. If you get off on thinking about how nothing has changed and how people are exactly the same now as they were 200 years ago, and also you like really adept, precise writing, then you’ll love Middlemarch. Pages 350-550 were hard to get through, though, I’m not gonna...
