November 2011
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October 2011
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September 2011
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blast from my past.
El Arbi- Khaled
August 2011
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July 2011
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William Wei
She was this Indian girl. She liked to do it from behind, in this one position. That was the only thing she wanted to do. The other things were boring, she said. When I went to the shower, she got up on all fours to masturbate.
Amie Barodale, The Paris Review
June 2011
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The City
You said: “I’ll go to another country, go to another shore,find another city better than this one.Whatever I try to do is fated to turn out wrong and my heart lies buried as though it were something dead.How long can I let my mind moulder in this place?Wherever I turn, wherever I happen to look,I see the black ruins of my life, here,where I’ve spent so many years, wasted them, destroyed them...
"Thirty-two Kilos"
(Ivonne) Thein, a 29-year-old German photographer and student, was inspired to create (“Thirty-two Kilos”), the series of 14 photographs after reading about “pro-ana” (or pro-anorexia) Web sites in a magazine. People on these sites, which have been around since at least the late ’90s, argue that anorexia is a lifestyle choice like any other. Their fellowship revolves around...
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May 2011
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“I’ve been distracted, not to say overwhelmed, by all that led up to his death,...”
– - My father, R. Thomas Collins, Jr. from his memoir, Wordsmith, citing a letter he, himself, had written about one-and-a-half months after his own father’s death.
It’s been five years, to the day, since my dad died, and I remember feeling this exact same way, as if it was yesterday. I learned that...
The Man Manifesto: The Style Icon: André Benjamin →
manmanifesto:
So most of you might not know André Benjamin under his current title, but this stylish dandy has hip-hop roots - he was the lead singer of Outkast going by the title André 3000. But Benjamin has since left the hip-hop culture behind and is focusing his attention on style and his fairly new…
April 2011
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Feel Bad So They Can Make You Feel Better
Dove’s empowerment-via-shame marketing approach for Go Sleeveless has its roots in advertising techniques that gained popularity in the 1920s: a) pinpoint a problem, perhaps one consumers didn’t even know they had; b) exacerbate anxiety around the problem; c) sell the cure.
March 2011
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WatchLykke Li, live, at Morning Becomes Eclectic
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WatchIIT graduate, MIT PhD candidate, Pranav Mistry on how he’s taking us into a virtual reality
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"Oreo"
When James Clark heard from the sweet lips of Helen (Honeychile) Clark that she was going to wed a Jew-boy and would soon be Helen (Honeychile) Schwartz, he managed to croak one anti-Semitic “Goldberg!” before he turned to stone, as it were, in his straight-backed chair, his body a rigid half swastika,
discounting, of course, head, hands, and feet.
“Oreo”, Fran...
I Spy with My C.I.A. Eye
Robert and Dayna Baer were both married — to other people — the day they met. Both were working undercover for the CIA in war-torn Sarajevo, hunting down the Hezbollah cell that had tried to assassinate the local CIA station chief.
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Bat For Lashes ~ Strangelove...
The Day the Movies Died
That leaves one quadrant—men under 25—at whom the majority of studio movies are aimed, the thinking being that they’ll eat just about anything that’s put in front of them as long as it’s spiked with the proper set of stimulants. That’s why, when you look at the genres that currently dominate Hollywood—action, raunchy comedy, game/toy/ride/comic-book adaptations, horror,...
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Most Omnivores Don't Have a Dilemma.
The fact that foodies so often construct their pursuit of rarified taste to be an environmentally and socially responsible act only intensifies the ugly paradox at the core of the movement. Essentially the message sustainable foodies end up of delivering goes something like this: Only a few can eat the way we eat, but the way we eat is the best way to achieve social and environmental justice....
“Date a girl who reads. Date a girl who spends her money on books instead of...”
– Rosemarie Urquico (via kblitz)
(via conversationslips)
Rosemarie no longer has an active blog, but she can be found on Facebook here: http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/profile.php?id=585211028 To see the post about how she was found, please go here. Thanks, Jonathan (who should eventually get a...
February 2011
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Photograffeur
In a Paris suburb in October 2005, two teenagers of African descent were running away from the police and tried to hide inside a power substation. They were electrocuted instantly. The violence that broke out in protest of police harassment soon spread to neighboring communities and eventually to housing projects across the whole of France. When the media came to document the events in...
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Secrets of a Mind-Gamer
When people first learn to use a keyboard, they improve very quickly from sloppy single-finger pecking to careful two-handed typing, until eventually the fingers move effortlessly and the whole process becomes unconscious. At this point, most people’s typing skills stop progressing. They reach a plateau. If you think about it, it’s strange. We’ve always been told that practice makes perfect, and...
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“Leveraging a massive database built from the site — about 11 million data points...”
– Research Suggests Friendships Are Built on Alliances (2010), via MWF Seeking BFF (via jonyang)
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