February 2012
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Boy Bands: Then and Now →
It’s kind of sad to see what time’s done to these guys.
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Guns, Germs, and Steel
Jared Diamond’s Guns, Germs, and Steel should be considered a classic because it’s one of those books that, in several circles, everyone has an opinion on. But, like I said when I reviewed Vertigo several months back, I think it’s also one of those things that everyone knows about but not nearly as many people have read it as talked about it. Before I go on, I’ll say that...
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“Lincoln loved to tell stories. Anyone who met with him commented on his endless...”
– Is storytelling a necessary component of leadership? Lincoln Tells a Story.
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“And as you were saying, technology’s come so far, there’s just so many more...”
– Interview with Jesse Lacey, in which he talks about Brand New, past and present, art, and a whole slew of other things.
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Someone said to me today
On noticing that I was reading “Authority and American Usage by David Foster Wallace, “How can you read something with footnotes. I can’t read things with footnotes. I’d kill myself, like he [David Foster Wallace] did”
Ummm, what?! Lack of taste and pettiness aside, THAT’S the criteria you use to decide if some piece of literature is worth perusing?
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“The average American loves his family. If he has any love left over for some...”
– Thomas Edison
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10 Things I learned from watching The Room
Sunglasses are sufficient to hide your identity.
Chickens go “cheep cheep cheep”
Undressing for sex should take several hours and should function as foreplay.
Photographs of utensils > photographs of family and friends
“How’s your sex life?” is an acceptable conversation starter
Tossing a football is the only pastime
The ability to emote is inversely...
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8 Unexpected Downsides to the Switch to E-Books →
An amusing cracked article.
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Mitt Romney Has Money
keepkoolmybabies:
thefrogman:
This is funny because
http://youtu.be/o_ff46b58Hk?t=59s
Relevant because of my recent viewing of that movie.
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Finally got around to watching Good Fellas last...
Well most of it anyway.
I can’t wait to finish watching it tonight (hopefully). It’s a good movie and I can kind of see why it’s such a famous movie, although I don’t really like this style of movie so I wouldn’t rate it as high as most people (and probably not as high as it is on IMDB), but it’s enjoyable. Also, Ray Liotta is not an attractive man in the...
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“In brief, the same sorts of political upheavals that produced everything from...”
– -David Foster Wallace, “Authority and American Usage” as well.
You know how sometimes you read someone and all you can think is “Gosh this guy is not nearly as smart as he thinks he is”? That never happens to me when I read David Foster Wallace (also, J. D. Salinger, but...
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“Did you know that probing the seamy underbelly of the US lexicography reveals...”
– David Foster Wallace, “Authority and American Usage”
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Reptar
This is Reptar. They are easily Athens, Georgia’s most talented and popular band. Only Reptar could decide to have a house show at some random guys house on a Monday night two days prior and have some 200+ people show up. Only Reptar could get everyone present to pay for the 3 (yes, 3) noise violations that the owner of the house received for hosting the house show. Only Reptar could then...
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Feminerdism: I'm looking for YA books with POC in... →
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I tutor reading and phonics at an inner-city middle school in Denver. Most of the students are Latino, from low-income households, English Language Learners, and immigrants. Some of them are undocumented immigrants, or their parents are undocumented. Some of their parents work two or three minimum…
Read this and then go make suggestions.
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Thoughts on "Fuck" →
fuckyeahbookarts:
In further response to the title of this blog, I just received this thoughtful submission from writingandnotwriting all about the word ‘fuck’:
It is odd the ways in which we become deeply unsettled or even offended by a single word like “Fuck.” It is a word for something we all do. And…
Read this.
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All of the movie posters for Saw 3D are terrible.
I stopped keeping up with the franchise a while ago. I’ve read over most of the plots but watched only 4 of them (and only 1 and 2 of my own accord). But since I recently rewatched Saw 1, I decided to go look at all the other posters. I think a lot of the saw movie posters are pretty successful. ALl of the medical themed ones are really excellent, like the two below.
But the Saw 6 and...
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Guess who's going to the Cannes Film Festival!
Yes, Yes, Yes, Yes, Yes, Yes, Yes.
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“There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been....”
– Isaac Asimov
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Hobo with a Shotgun
Jason Eisner’s Hobo with a Shotgun (2011) is a pretty freaking wonderful grindhouse film. It’s inane, ridiculous, and above all, absurdly bloody. It was great because it didn’t take itself seriously; it wanted to be absurd and out-there and so far from anything believable. The movie is about a Hobo who stumbles into a modern day Sodom and Gomorrah where prostitution and...
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10 Amazing Science Books that Reveal the Wonders... →
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Saw
James Wan’s Saw (2004) will probably mostly be remembered in the future for the annoying franchise that just didn’t seem to go away; much in the same way Halloween and Friday the 13th franchises are remembered now. However, like the original Halloween, the original Saw has a lot of merit as a horror movie. For those of you who haven’t seen it, the movie opens with two men...
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Love Ever After – portraits of NYC-area couples who have been together for over 50 years, inspired by photographer Lauren Fleishman’s grandparents
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