January 2012
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December 2011
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November 2011
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bookoisseur:
This is awesome. I wish I could submit my resume like this all the time.
Lens: From One Maternity Ward, a Growing World →
From the New York Times:
On Monday, as the United Nations Population Fund estimated the world’s population has reached seven billion, we asked Lynsey Addario to photograph women giving birth in a maternity ward in India.
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Lionel Trilling’s Life of the Mind →
For literary criticism to have any kind of political application today, literature must first have cultural currency. Here optimists are in the minority. Kirsch’s originality lies in a refusal to equate the existing crisis — literature is “on the verge of default,” he readily admits — with a permanent condition. Contemplating “our unmistakably fragmented literary culture,” Kirsch posits a...
September 2011
8 posts
briesbookshelf-deactivated20110 asked: Thank you for following. Nice blog!
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Sunset is a verb :OO
Sunset v.
The close or final stage of any period.
Example:
“The White House proposal would let the Bush-era tax cuts to sunset for houses earning over $250,000.”
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McSweeney's Letter to Madeleine L'Engle →
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The UN Debates Happiness (brought to you by... →
August 2011
4 posts
“First of all, let’s clarify what the NASA budget is. Do you realize that the...”
– Neil deGrasse Tyson (via david)
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July 2011
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“Mars has two small moons whose names mean panic and terror. Phobos looks like a...”
– Amy Leach’s weird and lovely essay in A Public Space, “Sail On, My Little Honey Bee” (via ewilcox)
Pixel Fashion
new-aesthetic:
Mitsubai Tokyo （LOW 2011-2012 F/W COLLECTION －ANREALAGE（アンリアレイジ）－）
The third pair of shoes down is MINE. (Well, not yet. But eventually, maybe.)
Watchewilcox:
chriscantwell:
I’m up for a directing gig and was asked to show how I portray men being skittish. So I present you this very introspective proof-of-concept starring Sean Bury and Clint Gage that we did this afternoon. Shot by James Codeglia.
Hoses are tricky.
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Molly Jean Bennett: An Open Letter to the Man Who... →
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June 2011
9 posts
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Unusual Date Ideas
presentlaughter:
lalamanfr0:
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This is so fun.
For some reason when I reblogged before only the last 4 showed up.
This is the complete list of awesome.
Much better than dinner and a movie.
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Message to US State Dept: evil is evil is evil
“We invested so much money and effort over so many decades to get behind the Iron Curtain, to talk about what democracy was, to keep the flag of freedom unfurled in people’s hearts […] just to give people a sense that they weren’t alone, and that maybe their ideas about the human spirit were not subversive.” “It is true that bin Laden’s name was not chanted...
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“The poor and the affluent are not communicating because they do not have the...”
– Peter S. Jennison (via firstbook)
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May 2011
10 posts
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Reconciliation Efforts in Afghanistan →
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About Time →
Mich Hedberg gets a website to archive his postmortem awesomeness.
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Heya, I started a blog with quotes of the books... →
European Union Gets Official Status at the UN →
I'm not celebrating Osama's death.
nicholasriddikulus:
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Osama Bin Ladin Dead →
Today of all days I decide to open CNN first…
April 2011
5 posts
Words that don’t exist in the english language. →
Words that don’t exist in the english language:
L’esprit d’escalier: (French) The feeling you get after leaving a conversation, when you think of all the things you should have said. Translated it means “the spirit of the staircase.”
Waldeinsamkeit: (German) The feeling of being alone in the woods.
Meraki: (Greek) Doing something with soul, creativity, or love.
Forelsket: (Norwegian) The...
make me: The Rio de Janeiro Massacre →
life:
The Rio de Janeiro Massacre
On April 7, 2011, the Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro suffered an unspeakable tragedy when a gunman in his mid-20s walked into the school and opened fire on children, killing at least 12 people and wounding 22, according to preliminary reports from…
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Crystal Beran Writes Stories →
“I’m gonna need some coffee if I’m going dinosaur hunting this morning.”