January 2011
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NPR: Lil B - Understanding Rap's New Rebel →
If you’re at all interested in hip hop, you should be reading what Noz writes.
tumblinerb:
I wrote a long feature over at NPR’s The Record blog in which I try to explain Lil B.
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Memory, memory
Me, at pencilholder:
Some people have remarkable perceptual memories, for example; they seem to take in automatically and to recollect without the least difficulty all the rich details of a summer holiday, the scores of people met, the way they dressed, their talk—the thousand incidents that make up a day on the beach. Others retain no memories (and perhaps lay down no memories) of such matters,...
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“A fun fact is that Rivers Cuomo loves Asian girls. That makes two of us! Just...”
– Julie Klausner, in the perfect “day in the life of” piece.
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“If coal is so good for us hillbillies, then why are we so poor? We’re a...”
– Judy Bonds, environmental hero. She died of cancer January 4. Yesterday, the EPA revoked a Clean Water Act mining permit from Arch Coal, who would not use more expensive but less destructive mining techniques than mountain top removal .
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Internet Stupidity
mills:
Technologies which are vectors for the transmission of information -narratives or datasets or social communication- inform human thought as surely as does language itself.
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Wisdom and happiness
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I believe that David Foster Wallace was a better essayist and thinker than a writer of fiction, and I like his oft-quoted Kenyon commencement address very much; in it, he...
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I Love Thrift Stores
Original US Navy Pea Coat circa 1960 Lanvin Brown Herringbone Jacket No-label Wool Tuxedo No-label Navy Blue Wool Suit 2 pair Allen Edmonds Park Avenues 2 shirts
All of the aforementioned are in great shape and ready to wear, and it all cost less than a pair of Air Jordans.
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Congresswoman shot in head at Tucson event →
sasquatchmedia:
Holy mother of god. Tell me this isn’t true?
Christ. I hope she makes it. My thoughts are with all the people who’ve died or were injured.
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Pencil Holder: I Knew You →
I’m still writing things here. I hope you’ll read it.
pencilholder:
He laughed about once a minute, whether I said anything amusing or not. I remembered something about laughter being a social glue - a way of telling each other that everything is going fine - that people laugh all the time when nothing funny or even fun is going on. For some reason that didn’t…
Awesome things I wish I thought of first
bunburied:
I see you driving
Round town with the girl I love
And I’m like Haiku
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Emerging Adulthood?
miss-adventures:
This is an old issue, I read this article in Flavorwire a long time ago, and the New York Times article as well, but the issue has stuck with me for sometime. This morning a thought struck me during my morning commute:
What if our generation is using the recession to our advantage? By not taking the first job available to start a career we are half-emotionally invested in, we...
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A New Site →
I’m writing short fiction at Pencil Holder now. There will be one story a week, as a part of the One A Day Project. I thought you might like to know.
pencilholder:
We met at a coffee shop. Thank God he suggested coffee. I hate meeting at a bar when you’re just getting to know someone. Can you think of a worse place to have a conversation? Maybe a stock car track.
But coffee. Coffee only...