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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-7-25)

Mon, 26 Jul 2010 20:52:46 -0700

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-7-25):

"I find I’m most unhappy when I walk through this world like a deposed prince looking for his..."

Fri, 23 Jul 2010 11:12:56 -0700

“I find I’m most unhappy when I walk through this world like a deposed prince looking for his lost kingdom. Maybe it’s not just me, either. Maybe that’s what the whole Vegas thing is about — trying to get the universe to acknowledge that we are so Queen of the Slots or Lord of the Buffet or some damn thing — and maybe that’s why I’m not into it.”

- alicublog

Roy Edroso goes to Vegas. Excellent.

"I think these ideas are mostly delusional because they rely on a fundamental misapprehension about..."

Fri, 23 Jul 2010 09:53:16 -0700

“I think these ideas are mostly delusional because they rely on a fundamental misapprehension about the world around us — namely that we live in a society that can be made simple enough to comprehend.”

- Insufficient data - Charlie’s Diary

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-7-18)

Thu, 22 Jul 2010 01:16:22 -0700

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-7-18):

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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-7-11)

Mon, 12 Jul 2010 14:12:51 -0700

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-7-11):

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"Within ten minutes I am out of sight of all the houses and all I see are comic book mountains and..."

Mon, 12 Jul 2010 12:26:29 -0700

“Within ten minutes I am out of sight of all the houses and all I see are comic book mountains and open water. But all around me are the invisible tendrils of Scandinavian socialism, just watching and waiting for a single moment of weakness in order to strike, and provide me with skilful medical attention, or rescue me from the sea, or show me that despite my efforts to hide from the world entirely I am standing on a spot with five bars of cell phone coverage.”

- Mission: Burfjord

Cul de Sac Comic Strip on GoComics.com “I like little...

Wed, 07 Jul 2010 08:09:39 -0700

Cul de Sac Comic Strip on GoComics.com

“I like little cute animal cartoons with big eyes who’re also magic robot vampire ninjas, but sensitive”

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-7-4)

Wed, 07 Jul 2010 00:10:37 -0700

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-7-4):

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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-6-27)

Wed, 30 Jun 2010 13:18:44 -0700

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-6-27):

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"Getting groceries means having to cross the 70th parallel, which fills me with an unjustifiable..."

Tue, 29 Jun 2010 13:06:23 -0700

“Getting groceries means having to cross the 70th parallel, which fills me with an unjustifiable sense of regret.”

- On Top of the World

Suddenly I want to spend a week in a cabin in Norway.

"8.40pm: It’s 56 games all and darkness is falling. This, needless to say, is not a good..."

Wed, 23 Jun 2010 12:48:13 -0700

“8.40pm: It’s 56 games all and darkness is falling. This, needless to say, is not a good development, because everybody knows that zombies like the dark. So far in this match they’ve been comparatively puny and manageable, only eating a few of the spectators in between bashing their serves. But come night-fall the world is their oyster. They will play on, play on, right through until dawn. Perhaps they will even leave the court during the change-overs to munch on other people. Has Roger Federer left the grounds? Perhaps they will munch on him, hounding him down as he runs for his car, disembowelling him in the parking lot and leaving Wimbledon without its reigning champion. Maybe they will even eat the trophy too. Growing darker, darker all the while.”

- Wimbledon 2010 live blog: 23 June | Xan Brooks | Sport | guardian.co.uk

Guardian’s live blog of the longest tennis match ever is a thing of beauty.

"8.40pm: It’s 56 games all and darkness is falling. This, needless to say, is not a good..."

Wed, 23 Jun 2010 12:47:46 -0700

"There’s no such thing as disconnected anymore. Personally, I think it’s too bad, although as a..."

Wed, 23 Jun 2010 07:17:00 -0700

“There’s no such thing as disconnected anymore. Personally, I think it’s too bad, although as a parent I’m thrilled. I don’t want my kids wandering around without a connection to me, and yet for them it’s too bad, because they’ll never have access to that human experience of being totally disconnected. How will that change them? How will it change us all? The feeling of time passing, for me anyway, is partly the sense of no longer knowing the people I once knew. You move through worlds, and now everyone is back in touch. How do you measure your own growth and change if no one ever leaves?”

- The Rumpus Interview With Jennifer Egan - The Rumpus.net

To top it off, the interview is completed via a PowerPoint deck, which is kind of awesome.

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-6-13)

Wed, 16 Jun 2010 19:40:26 -0700

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-6-13):

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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-6-6)

Mon, 07 Jun 2010 12:54:55 -0700

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-6-6):

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gladwell.com: My greatest triumph! So great.

Fri, 04 Jun 2010 09:53:38 -0700

gladwell.com: My greatest triumph!

So great.

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-5-30)

Tue, 01 Jun 2010 06:14:47 -0700

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-5-30):

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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-5-23)

Mon, 24 May 2010 22:42:41 -0700

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-5-23):

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"okay, here, here, let me sum up this whole “news” story for you: Aging, scared..."

Thu, 20 May 2010 08:56:58 -0700

“okay, here, here, let me sum up this whole “news” story for you: Aging, scared newspapermen throw themselves at the latest mobile technology trend in a humiliatingly futile attempt to remain relevant.”

- New Social Networking Site Changing The Way Oh, Christ, Forget It | The Onion - America’s Finest News Source

I like when you can tell there’s genuine outrage behind an onion piece.

"[T]he truth is that people who aren’t exactly like us make us unbelievably nervous, especially..."

Thu, 20 May 2010 07:54:39 -0700

“[T]he truth is that people who aren’t exactly like us make us unbelievably nervous, especially when we’re about to give them one of the most powerful jobs in the land. We want our outsiders to be insiders, our women to be men, our minorities to be white, and our singles to be married.”

- Can we please stop talking about Supreme Court nominees like they are real people? - By Dahlia Lithwick