January 2012
5 posts
Castelul Peleș
allthingsromanian:
Slavoj Žižek, "The Revolt of the Salaried... →
lizoain:
From the LRB:
A consequence of the rise in productivity brought about by the exponentially growing impact of collective knowledge is a change in the role of unemployment. It is the very success of capitalism (greater efficiencies, raised productivity etc) which produces unemployment, rendering more and more workers useless: what should be a blessing – less hard labour needed – becomes...
December 2011
13 posts
The best part about the kim jong-il funeral is how stunningly antiquated it looks. here is a scene out of our parents’ seventies coming true in 2012. The gray snow and low sky. What a perfect setting for all that dully incredible pageantry, a nation that takes detail so seriously, flowery and bureaucratic even in death After this, what’s the last cold war remnant dictatorship? Belarus?...
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My Outlook is down at work
so I just cracked the plastic on the 2011 wall calendar my Mom got me last Christmas that’s been sitting in my office for a year to find out what the week looked like.
Watchzzzlll:
Been working on Botanica about two and a half years now. We open in New York this Feb at 3LD. I hope all of you Ryanbrowns, and Creepers and YoungManhattanites can make it out. CatRock will definitely be there. Its going to be a complete balls to the walls mental fuck fest. Here’s some behind the scenes that I shot. Enjoy it.
“Timing is everything and chemistry is something that you just don’t throw...”
– Kevin Garnett
November 2011
7 posts
October 2011
11 posts
Paul Pierce bowling in his house. →
“The Phantom Tollbooth” is not just a manifesto for learning; it is a manifesto...”
– Norton Juster’s “The Phantom Tollbooth” at 50 : The New Yorker
This is just a really great article about a really great book.
(via ryeisenberg)
Awesome!
The Rules of Engagement: The Fallout, Part II →
therulesofengagement:
I think early on I managed to go semi-invisible (full invisibility does exist, but you have to pay for it on this site, literally pay for it, not like they shame you publicly, though I wouldn’t put it past them), which means I can’t see who has visited me (except when whatever matrix okcupid uses decides they’ve visited enough or they are little enough of an enemy to...
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September 2011
6 posts
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FYI:
evanfleischer:
If you want to watch Radiohead play #occupywallstreet, this is probably the place to do it.
Ugh. This is so stupid. Way to alienate the mainstream Americans who might have felt common cause with your protest and been inspired by it. Have a weird, teen-angsty rock band play a popular uprising.
Way to ensure this won’t be taken seriously.
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The rich have gone from being grateful for what... →
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Happy Birthday Bill Monroe →
100th Anniversary classic bluegrass stream on NPR is killing it.
ryanbrown asked: How r u?
August 2011
12 posts
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“The golf-resort façade of Tucson makes me want to lie down and die, and it seems...”
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The novelist Rick Moody visits Tucson, Arizona—and reports back. (via newsweek)
Murray-bait. (Can’t believe I beat Brown to this.)
I mean, it’s Rick Moody. So while that absolutely meaningless sentence does make my blood boil, I’m comforted to see that it was written by a fool....
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Mr. Romney, becoming increasingly animated, asked:... →
hot pockets?
cherryeatstheapple: Poet Laureate →
cherryeatstheapple:
It’s not that I dislike Levine as a poet, and in fact I think that politically he’s a great choice for Laureate. The trouble for me is inherent to the award itself. It seems to honor hindsight too much. Levine, like his predecessor Merwin, was important to his generation of poets, but the sense of…
Isn’t that the nature of the academy though? I think the...
“You know, I never wrote a tune in my life. All that music’s in the air...”
– Bill Monroe
Every one of my favorite musicians, every single one, has made some version of this exact statement. The best artists don’t create, they are perfect conduits for that which is bigger than us, that which exists, but we don’t yet know.