March 2010
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February 2010
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“you are here on this earth to fart around. don’t let anybody tell you any...”
– the great k.v.
what a great day for neil young.
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hamelin
years ago, i’d read an article about playwright martin mcdonagh in which he references many of my favorites, from the pogues to oscar wilde, jorge luis borges to pinter’s “the birthday party.” while the author of the piece does a wonderful job of convincing me that i must read this man’s work and intriguing me by the real-life ruggedness in which many of the plays...
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Hip Hop Caucus →
support clean energy while supporting al gore and my friend seth!
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Animal Olympians →
wow… commenter eric warner-weinstein took this article quite seriously. his critique:
Technically the fastest animal on earth is the peregrine falcon and since they used birds for their long distance category, there is no distinction between land and air animals so this list is just flawed. If were talking about land animals the fastest animal over distance/endurance would go to the dog.
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Watchone room. one chair. one marshmallow. can you make it three minutes without eating the sugary treat? it’s actually a remarkably effective way to predict future success… maybe.
(ht: thedailybeast)
reed nuclear reactor tour in portland!
Organized by Atlas Obscura
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Eric Bernotas | Athletes | USA Bobsled & Skeleton... →
this fine gentleman has battled tourettes syndrome, alcoholism, and depression to become a gold medal contender in skeleton. that’s right, eric bernotas’ former self may very well have been drunk while flinging himself down an icy ramp, head-first with a death wish, and screaming expletives the whole way.
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the best advice i’ve gotten so far is, “this should never happen. there will be bumps along the road, and this one’s a hole, but it’ll be alright.” thanks, dad. that’s a very elegant way of putting it.
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shorpy
dictionaryofobscuresorrows:
adj. yearning to move into a photo from a hundred years ago, to wade into the blurred-edge sepia haze that hangs in the air between people in hats and petticoats who walk the bare earth, who leer stoically into this dusty and dangerous future, whose battered shoes are anchors locked fast in the fantasy that none of it risks turning out any other way but the way it...
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Prosthetic Memory: A Camera That Gives Back Lost... →
from inkling magazine.
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Blattschuss
Literally, Blattschuss is a hunting term for a shot through the shoulder into the heart; figuratively, it means getting one’s point across succinctly.
(ht: mr. tyler samples)
