February 2012
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If I ruled the world, or at least a publishing company, all books would contain as much supplementary information as possible. Nonfiction, fiction—doesn’t matter. Every work would have an appendix filled with diagrams, background information, digressions and anecdata. And of course, maps. Lots and lots of maps.
At the Awl, Victoria Johnson writes about some of the maps you stared at as a...
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Funks Grove
“Funks Grove,Shirley IL” by itss_yyama
“Fall Drive Through Funks Grove” by prariedawn66
“Shelter in the Field” by Renee LaCombe
Illinois Boulevard, between Old Route 66 and I-55 (funksgrove.org)
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Keep the Denver Zine Library open!
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Angkor What? Angkor Who?
“Siem Reap - l’Albero di Angkor Wat” by valerio giulianelli
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Keithsburg, IL
“building in Keithsburg” by keosahawkeye
“Every time the river floods, it about washes away. “—@AuntB
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newspeedwayboogie:
doomandgloomfromthetomb:
“Crosseyed & Painless” - Talking Heads, 1979
Guess this is from the new Chronology DVD. Guess I’m going to have to get that. Incredible. Via Dangerous Minds.
if you never “got” the Talking Heads, this will blow your mind
if you’ve always loved the Talking Heads, this will blow your mind
one of the great opening lines too: Lost my shape,...
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@tomgauld:
Guy Delisle is great. From his blog: on the left, panel from his comic ‘Jerusalem’; on the right, the real-life sketch
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my son’s cousins they are the cuteness.
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The P stands for Pendleton. Still don’t know what the S stands for….
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Well exactly.
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Harry Lucey Harry Lucey Harry Lucey
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poptates → archieoutofcontext
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Binder clips. What can’t they do?
Keep your cables in line.
(lihab → lifehacker → buzzfeed → lisamol)
Keep your whetstone at the proper angle.
(About.com → lifehacker → etc.)
January 2012
50 posts
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Via Baroquenoise.
I am generally against shirts that are open all the way down to yr belt. However I am generally in favor of chillin out with yr beard, stoned, in the wind (I am imagining it to be a Welsh wind for a couple of workingman’s Celts), arm on Bonzo’s shoulder. I can hang with tweed overcoats too.
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James Iha: one of the best people.
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Porter Yates is still K I L L I N I T !
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(and so much more)
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Fuck Yeah Subways…ki lin iii-it!
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Interesting article about the largest political campaign donations in US history.
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Wireless data transmission using LED lights (Economist).
See also: this TED talk.
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Wow. Evelyn Lincoln’s list of suspects, written just after JFK was murdered. Via Lists of Note.
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So the man who blew the whistle on torture may go to jail, but nothing is going to happen to the people who cooked up corrupt legal opinions to justify torture, who ordered torture, or who actually tortured.
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Happy 100th, Jackson Pollock!
yer a god damned hero.
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Not only do I not miss my youth, I am pleased to be rid of it.
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“I [was] serious about turning little churchgoing Jamesetta into a tough bitch called Etta James…. I wanted to look like a great big high-yellow ho’. I wanted to be nasty.”
Etta James’s life was more interesting than you may have thought.
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Well, you know, minority politics has been a lot easier to sell than to just say, “Being human ought to get you human dignity,” full stop. If you can pin down the difference, if you can make the difference the salient issue, it somehow makes it easier for people to stomach the fact that they can’t go out and just beat people over the head. I don’t know why that is. I find it intensely...
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Man, Ariel and Kevin need to invade more things.
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Weedmaster P is wearing the best shirt ever.
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I’m glad someone finally pointed out the racial upfuckédness of R. Crumb’s “Patton”. Most of the time Crumb’s blues material is presented as an antidote to his earlier embarrassing blackface material. Instead I see the blues stuff as a more subtle continuation of it. The thrust of Crumb’s late-60s “Whiteman” pieces was that whites are uptight,...
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Anna, Illinois, is likely still a sundown town. Elwood, Indiana, almost surely is.
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John Cheese talks about how you eat, and do other things, when you’re poor—
Fresh food is expensive and takes forever to prepare. It goes bad quickly, so it requires multiple trips to the grocery store per week, which is something most impoverished people can’t do.
—and how those things stay with you “after you escape.”
Being poor is a mindset. And it’s one...
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Some inneresting talk here about the possible futures of publishing. (Check th comments, patickally th back n forth between B and bridgett.)
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(Why am I linking to evry comment on this post?)
Yeah, exactly.
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Facets, if you will, of some ideal, multi-dimensional object. Something which is never fully made phenomenal. Hence, in most typical strips, there is no aging, no death. The moving hand is there only to turn the object, or to re-orient the view-finder.
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The effect is diminished rather than reinforced.
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matthen. Freakin #KILLIN IT. Witness ‡ and ‡.
Seriously.
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R.I.P.
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What did the baby and I dance to today?
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What did the baby and I dance to today?
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R.I.P.
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Freddie: (who I hope will forgive the extended quotation)
For far too long, mainstream progressives have signaled their “seriousness” precisely by denying the validity of people like Kucinich or Sanders, so taken with some bizarre definition of the reasonable that they effectively silence the leftist non-interventionists they say they want. [ … ] The notion that there is...
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Mike Doughty making an inordinate amount of sense about piracy and the music business and the internet business.
I’ve never unerstood why a radio-type licensing system wasnt worked out a long time ago. Isnt the fight they’re having with the internet right now the same fight they had with radio a zillion years ago? Once they made peace, evryone made tons of money. The current situation...
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#style
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What did the baby and I dance to today?
“Weird Summer”* / “Vegetable”
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*Weird Summer was or is also the name of a Nice Guy* Rock band from Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (the capitol of Nice Guy Rock), fronted by Bob Kimbell who is most famous to me for collaborating with Jack Logan on one of my favorite albums.
Just after they made that album I saw the two of them, and maybe Jamie Rouch on drums? perform at Mabel’s, the Champaign-area rawk club I miss the very...
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* in the non-ironic sense
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This is me.
Profuse apologies to Sarah Becan.
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Still looking at things from beyond the grave
Kim Jong-Il Looking At Things
It’s creepy.