March 2011
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“We understand your need to excel, but right now it’s holding you back. You...”
Mar 29th
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Mar 29th
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Independent, Dependent Clauses Seeking Punctuation... →
Commas, semicolons, periods…goodness, even dashes! Where have you all gone? Dear apostrophes, you used to represent ownership, possession. Yet you’ve disappeared, gone the way of the dodo and yielding to pedestrians.  I think that’s plenty. I’ll admit it: I’ve had a bum day. So I’m resorting to this slight venting of frustration on Craigslist. Sad. Self-aware...
Mar 27th
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“You won’t believe how much ham I have. Enough to share for sure!”
– text from my mother.
Mar 26th
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Mar 26th
the longest photographic exposures in history →
“you can actually see the passing of time.”
Mar 25th
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“I just received the news that I’ve once again been elected Chair of...”
– my father, eagle scout.
Mar 24th
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tabs left open in chrome
good morning, computer. oh, this is what i’d been doing with you when last we hung out? —a. leo stevens parachute medal page on wikipedia —outside magazine’s “chernobyl, my primeval, teeming, irradiated eden” —“replaying evolution reveals the benefits of being slow and steady” from discover magazine —google doc master list of...
Mar 24th
“we are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”
– kurt vonnegut
Mar 23rd
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Mar 23rd
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involuntary parks →
Mar 22nd
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“L’esprit de escalier: (French) The feeling you get after leaving a conversation,...”
– words that don’t exist in the english language
Mar 20th
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The Civil War - Interactive Feature - NYTimes.com →
an interactive walk through the events of the civil war as it unfolded. very cool.
Mar 20th
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Mar 20th
Mar 19th
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Mar 16th
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Mar 16th
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Listenplease don’t confront me with my failures, i...
Mar 15th
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-3-13) →
Gayngs (10) Arcade Fire (8) Neko Case (7) The Dirtbombs (6) The Pogues (5) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Mar 15th
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longtime friends
the conversation began when longtime friend’s roommate (jokingly) insinuated that longtime friend was at her best when not provoking said roommate to murder her. longtime friend said it was the sweetest thing anyone had ever said to her. me: sweeter than when i asked you to go to rehab with me? longtime friend: haha rehab or murder? im not sure which is sweeter. also, i told people you...
Mar 13th
Mapping the Nation's Well-Being - Interactive Map... →
if i zoom in to a level where i can see both minneapolis and my hometown in west virginia, i’m feeling very lucky to have made it to where i am today. 
Mar 13th
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Mar 11th
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Mar 9th
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-3-6) →
Joanna Newsom (22) Neko Case (8) Pavement (7) Lookbook (6) The Magnetic Fields (3) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Mar 7th
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Mar 4th
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“In the Antarctic there are no time zones, so it... →
my favorite excerpts from the article that so kindly/terribly informed me of the gift shop located at the south pole: —When Avery reached the pole, he was the youngest person to get there on foot, following a 45-day, 700-mile trek. In interviews, Avery’s father praised his son’s “stiff upper lip” - a lip that was extremely stiff since he was suffering from...
Mar 4th
Mar 3rd
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Mar 3rd
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-2-27) →
Arcade Fire (32) Vivian Girls (29) Neko Case (22) Dizzy Gillespie (9) Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy (5) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Mar 2nd
Mar 2nd
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