August 2011
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Watch“Ending Hunger Now” Boring speaker, huge problems, some cool ideas. It gets better after a few minutes.
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July 2011
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Home at last
jasonbenn:
I touched down in BWI yesterday afternoon and am now sitting home in Falls Church. I’m sad the trip is over, but as it turns out 47 days is exactly the right amount of time to be abroad. This was my first true adult travel experience and I’ve grown in ways I may or may not write about later (I have several more rough drafts for posts written out - they’ll be put up in the next two...
May 2011
18 posts
In case you're interested... →
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It Gets Worse
thenewinquiry:
By Malcolm Harris
The dissonance between the two poles, between puppy and wolf, altar boy and Rosemary’s baby, is the heart of Odd Future’s sound
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“But more than just missing Tyler’s perceptive acuity, this kind of criticism forecloses the chance to look at Odd Future’s music as fiction, to see it as an attempt at truth, as artists’ creation rather than the...
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Fringe Feminists: Ulrike Meinhof
thenewinquiry:
“The demand for equal rights developed out of the demand for liberation. Liberation would bring emancipation through a series of changes in the social system: the abolition of the hierarchical social structure, the establishment of a democratic one, and melding of capital and labor so that production methods would be more social, and the master/slave relations that defined...
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“That is real freedom. That is being educated, and understanding how to think....”
– David Foster Wallace
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More procrastination inspired thoughts
When I laugh, an inside laugh with maybe an exterior smile, at something because it is just sooo douchey like the murdered out trying to be sports-car with an intentionally low-performing muffler driven by a guy missing shirtsleeves of any kind at first I am myself being a judgmental douche but then the laughter, as opposed to anger or real disdain or serious geo-political criticism of this guys...
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““Returning hate for hate multiplies hate, adding deeper darkness to a...”
– Martin Luther King Jr. Strength to Love (via Tim Carmody at kottke.org)
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coffee shop thoughts (procrastination of writing...
sometimes in places where the people are mostly working alone like on their computers at their own personal table with headphones in like this particular and probably in other coffee shops where there’s this huge window out to an interesting part of town or campus and a girl walks by like any girl she could be hideous but the best example is when she’s almost cute and the guys like me...
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“aint no Devil/there’s just God when he’s drunk” - t. waits
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Atmosphere - “Me”
April 2011
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Flight Reservation
Leave Thursday, May 26, 2011
Arrive: 7:25am London, United Kingdom
This is an overnight flight.
Return Thursday, July 14, 2011
Whoopee!
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“Don’t be a casual fascist. A man needs to kick back in his own inimitable...”
– Glenn O’Brien (via putthison)
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“If, by the virtue of charity or the circumstance of desperation, you ever chance...”
– DFW
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“And you have been all right
And I have been filmed being ridiculous
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– LCD Soundsystem - Pow Pow
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“Fuck Don Draper! I drank scotch”
– rools
Happy Birthday little bro.
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March 2011
10 posts
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You Can Have Her - Waylon Jennings
I’m a...