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March 2012

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Mar 16, 2012319 notes
#nerdalert

February 2012

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Feb 25, 20123 notes
#fatshion #fatshionista #fat #joe zee #all on the line

December 2011

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Dec 11, 20113 notes
#christmas #white christmas #minstrelsy #that's racist!
Dec 11, 20117 notes
#parenthood #tv #sfu #sixfeetunder #peter krause
“

She is either very pretty or downright beautiful, depending on your point of view, but most of all she is good-looking in an unethnic American way, like the girl from the long-ago Breck shampoo ad.

She has clear, intelligent hazel eyes and picks at her food in the manner of small-boned women who have trained themselves to eat sparingly without calling attention to it. ‘

Then again, Burch is, by her own admission, “a total perfectionist. I can see,” she adds, “if a picture’s off by a 16th of an inch.” The details, animate as well as inanimate, appear to fall in place for her, as if in deference to her force field, her cleareyed, determined idea of how things should be.

There is nothing overtly tough-seeming about her, for instance, yet her friend Gigi Mortimer tells me that Burch hits the ball so hard in tennis her nickname is “Mighty Mouse.”

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—From Daphne Merkin’s profile of Tory Burch in last week’s NYT T Style magazine, which I’ve just now gotten around to reading (it’s the one with the bizarrely photoshopped picture of Viggo on the front where he looks like a 13 year old sk8r boy). So there are a lot of problems with this “I don’t know how she does it” piece, but these quotes really stood out to me as the types of things my high school should consider putting in its recruitment materials - Burch is probably our most famous alumna. These descriptions totally embody the Irwin’s girl. You can imagine I was very happy there.
Dec 11, 20111 note
#sigh #high school
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Dec 3, 201110 notes
#gross #badvertising #nice guys

November 2011

3 posts

Nov 16, 20111,247 notes
#awesome #'70s #badass
Nov 1, 20114 notes
#movies #english patient #ralph fiennes #pre-voldemort
“What we see in many places is that while you can bring crime down by occupying the neighborhood and stopping everybody, what you do in the process is lose that neighborhood. … You fuel the idea that the police are an occupying, inimical force in the neighborhood. You play into these real and toxic racial memories about what came before civil rights. And you can make it work in many places, but you can’t stop. You can’t ever say, ‘We’ve won. Things are good. Things are stable,’ because you have driven them into hiding.” —

David M. Kennedy, on programs that target specific geographic areas through car and pedestrian stops in order to stop crime.  (via nprfreshair)

Listening to this ep of Fresh Air, seems interesting for people who have never seen The Wire. J/K! It’s actually an interesting alternative to that show’s nihilism.

Nov 1, 201156 notes
#the wire
  • mike: also I've reached a conclusion that season 5 of the wire is really good if you view it as absurdist comedy
  • me: tell me more about the wire, i like that theory
  • mike: basically i realized how absolutely hilarious the whole bit is with the fake serial killer
  • especially the mcnulty/templeton interactions
  • buñuel would be proud
Oct 31, 20111 note
#the wire #discreet charm of the bourgeoisie

October 2011

26 posts

Oct 30, 20111,932 notes
#robyn #robin
Oct 29, 2011640 notes
Firecracker (live) Ryan Adams

This is a Ryan Adams appreciation blog, apparently. Come to think of it, my undergraduate thesis was written on a steady diet of Heartbreaker. This version of “Firecracker” is approx. 500 times better than the one on Gold. Seriously. 

Oct 29, 2011
#ryanadams
Banana Jam Ryan Adams

Or, is this my favorite Ryan Adams song? This was from the period when his website was truly out of control and had like 70 albums by like 8 different alter ego acts up on it. I never really got into those, either, but this is a pretty nice jam to write a dissertation to. Any other “jams to write a dissertation to” suggestions?

Oct 28, 20111 note
#ryanadams
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Oct 26, 20111 note
Back Here BBMak

thiswasmyjam:

Back Here | BBMak

This was definitely not my jam, but despite not having thought about this song for more than ten years, its chorus sprung immediately to mind upon reading the four words above. Pop music can be disturbing like that.

Is this what the Gayngs of 10 years from now is gonna sound like?

Oct 26, 2011115 notes
#terrible music #pop cheez
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