March 2012
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Any time you complain about "bad customer...
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It's just that simple.
”[…]I would prefer that you call me Bob. It’s just like that. […] If you were to insist on calling that person Robert, you would be a colossal dick.”—Paul F. Tompkins, the Todd Glass Show, episode 30
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v-e-l-o-l-o-v-e:
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February 2012
42 posts
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What did the baby and I dance to today?
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Sarah Becan tells us about the Ramen Museum—yes! Ramen! Museum!—in Shinyokohama (south of Tokyo):
Let’s go to the lower level of the Shinyokohama Ramen Museum, where they’ve basically taken three levels of basement and turned it into a meticulous recreation of a block of Tokyo from Showa era 33 (1958), which was the year they invented instant noodles. There are movie posters, actors playing...
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Check out this chart, from Mother Jones, which breaks down campaign contributions from servicemembers by candidate:
It beats me (and it beats Mother Jones too) what you make from that, but it’s interesting.
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Here's a song Rihanna should sing…
I needed something to cut open all the boxes so he handed me the very nice fishing knife he was in the habit of carrying. I was reluctant to use it, concerned that the cardboard would dull the blade. He gave me a weird look and said, “So I’ll sharpen it.”
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The Scale of the Universe 2
Via Carl.
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A little powerup for ya on a Tuesday morning.
Via Go Time!, again.
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thisismyfavoritesong:
“Save Me” by Smokey Robinson & The Miracles from Away We a Go-Go (1966).
Supernice.
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Not a bad little review of Adrian Tomine’s Optic Nerve #12, offerd up by Sean T. Collins.
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That last thing led me to this, of which I’m not sure what to make…but I’m kind of fascinated….
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Jeff Skunk Baxter in purple velvet pants, David Palmer looking utterly useless*, Fagen tossing his hair, and Bill Cosby. Oh, the Seventies.
Via Go Time!
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*I am not one of these David Palmer bashers. It just looks like he doesnt have much to do here.
[Back]
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Justice
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How is this not the most interesting thing in the world?
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Gray and pink, god DAMN it!
A Suitable Wardrobe.
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The (mostly illegal, technically) internship system advantages businesses and interns, disadvantages those who “can’t afford to work for free.”
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Abstract comic strip by Maré Odomo.
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David Weigel:
There’s more information out there about super PAC donors than there is about virtually any other kind of campaign fundraising. Maybe it’s the novelty, maybe it’s the size of the checks, but the rise of the super PAC has come with constant, clickable scrutiny from the Fourth Estate.
[ … ]
Our super PAC education, so far, has consisted of fat checks matched with information...
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Happy Birthday, Little Walter
Via Go Time!
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Joshua Holland:
And despite the fact that their views are totally out of sync with most liberal Israelis, and many of the policies they favor, like a military attack on Iran, would likely result in an utter disaster for Israel as well as its neighbors, they insist on calling themselves “pro-Israel.”
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Half a pound of hot Italian sausage—brown and pour a bit not all of the grease off*, 8 or 9 sundried tomatoes sliced into strips, a couple ounces of fancy mushrooms, 2 garlic cloves sliced Goodfellas style, a splash of vermouth to deglaze, a pound of fancy linguine, another splash of vermouth for good measure, some flat parsley (chop tup), pine nuts, a drop of olive oil. Couldve probably used a...
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* Save that shit. Yer goina want it. Pour it into a washt out tin can and slap a plastic lid on it…you can get em at Petco and like that…and thro it in th fridge. Ready to use it—take the can out the fridge and put it on the stove til it’s liquid again. Not on a burner, you idiot, just on the stove, while y’r heating something or running the oven or whatever. Then careful handling that...
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What I Listened To Today
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What did the baby and I dance to today (in our...
(Side A)
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What did the baby and I dance to yesterday?
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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