May 2012
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April 2012
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October 2011
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August 2011
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“If you think there is a vast climate conspiracy out to silence you, corrupting...”
– The Great Big Crazy Carbon Conspiracy | newmatilda.com
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“It’s definitely my favorite film franchise that’s 80 percent boring.”
– Chuck Klosterman in Grantland on the Planet of the Apes films.
July 2011
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“If there was human care involved, Sandler’s Happy Madison production company...”
– From Michelle Orange’s Review of Zookeeper.
June 2011
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Europe Stifles Drivers in Favor of Mass Transit... →
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May 2011
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How Roger Ailes Built the Fox News Fear Factory |... →
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“But self-publishing a blog should never be conflated with an unpaid internship....”
– Scocca
April 2011
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The One-Percenters - Roger Ebert's Journal →
Why do middle and lower class Tea Party members not understand that they bear an unfair burden of taxes that should be more fairly distributed? Why do they support those who campaign against unions and a higher minimum wage? What do they think is in it for them?
February 2011
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“Really, if the old Penn Station had not been knocked down, at best it would have...”
– Scocca
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“The moral is clear. Republicans don’t have a mandate to cut spending; they have...”
– Uninformed electorate, unaccountable politicians. Paul Krugman tells it like it is.
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“Discipline! Those careless poor people, frittering away taxpayer dollars on...”
– Scocca
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“One year at Cannes I was told by Tony Curtis, born in New York, that the problem...”
– Winter is icumen in - Roger Ebert’s Journal
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R Kelly - Interview Magazine →
Interviewed by Will Oldham. R Kelly is totally batshit crazy, in a really good way.
January 2011
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“The protests were accelerated by the heavy use of social-media web sites like...”
– Prime Minister Claims Power in Tunisia as President Flees - NYTimes.com
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December 2010
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“The first thing I want to know is why, apparently, people on DB don’t feel...”
– (From the same article.) The Viral Me: Devin Friedman Investigates the New World of Social Networking: Big Issues: GQ
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The Viral Me: Devin Friedman Investigates the New... →
Hmmm. I’m reading Gary Schteyngart’s Super Sad True Love Story right now, a kind of Generation-X-style bit of dystopian fiction, and I almost can’t tell the difference between it and this (non-fiction) article.
November 2010
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“The Tennis magazine cuts were particularly grievous, and at one point I remember...”
– Scocca interviewed David Foster Wallace interview in 1998.
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October 2010
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“Probably you have a lot of other things on your mind. Like money. Me, I spent...”
– Scocca
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“As far as I’m concerned, it’s a damned shame that a field as...”
– Hunter S. Thompson applies for a gig at the Vancouver Sun.
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WatchWhat. Via kottke.org.
September 2010
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“If the subject is politically sensitive this paragraph will contain quotes from...”
– This is a news website article about a scientific finding | Martin Robbins | Science | guardian.co.uk
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“I talk about my 29 years in solitary as if it was the past, but the truth is it...”
– Experience: I spent 29 years in solitary confinement | The Guardian
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Just North of Something Important - The false... →
This is a pretty great contemplation of Jon Stewart’s upcoming event in Washington, centred around a few very reasonable and interesting critiques.
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“Personally: if I get high, then drive, I’m not good. If I get high while...”
– I was reading Marginal Revolution and clicked a link about a “narcotics checkpoint” sign somewhere in the US, which led me to the 420 Tribune blog, and this article, which had this comment, which just seems spectacularly appropriate for a website about and for pot smokers.
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“Mr. Stewart also promised to supply the crowd with signs if they did not bring...”
– Jon Stewart Plans to Rally Against Extremism - NYTimes.com
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Everything You Never Wanted To Know About Figs →
I knew I didn’t like figs.
“FRANKENTIME What time feels like when you realize that most of your life is...”
– Douglas Coupland - A Dictionary of the Near Future
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Think Different →
August 2010
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“You can say this for the technological revolution; it’s cut way down on...”
– Rough Type: Nicholas Carr’s Blog: Charlie bit my cognitive surplus
Amy Andronicus: Tour Diary Day Four: Rock and Roll... →
After the guys have gone back to the van, I peruse the pages of the latest edition. I see a lot of photos of guys playing guitars, and ads for guys who play guitar featuring other guys playing guitars, and a photo of Lady Gaga wearing pasties and not much else. I begin to feel increasingly alienated by this magazine. Once again, I’ve got a suspicion that’s rooted in the back of my mind—that...
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“But it’s important to know that farmers aren’t getting wealthy. When...”
– Michael Pollan on Why $8 for a Dozen Eggs Makes Sense - WSJ.com
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“THE polar bear idea, for example, was not totally facetious. As a result of...”
– The Saturday Profile - Icelander’s Campaign Is a Joke, Until He’s Elected - Biography - NYTimes.com
July 2010
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Band of Horses @ Enmore
Probably not worth $65, although that’s not a very expensive ticket in Sydney. Which is shocking. Anyway, but, nice to be immersed in unapologetic rock for a while. They do well at rocking unapologetically, if nothing else. Good Americana slideshow against the screen behind them, too.
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“What I don’t understand is how corporations were granted their immunity....”
– BP’s tree fell on my lawn - Roger Ebert’s Journal
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“In order to really thrive, in order to have the kind of committed, excellent,...”
– Slate editor David Plotz in a story on Nieman Journalism Lab.
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“This vehicle is a joyless piece of slag. Driving it is like sitting on top of a...”
– This tribute by Tom Scocca reminds me of some time back in the 90s when Hertz upgraded us to a Ford Exploder. We drove it from Montreal to Shediac, NB, and back, filling it up about 600 times.
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Very outdated sitcom reviews
About two minutes ago I finished watching the final episode of season three of Curb Your Enthusiasm, “The Grand Opening.” I don’t think I’m going too far when I say that might be the best set-up and funniest bit ever, ever.
