June 2011
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Jun 1st
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May 2011
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“We were not having any fun, he had recently begun pointing out. I would take...”
– Joan Didion, “The Year of Magical Thinking”
May 31st
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May 26th
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May 23rd
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May 20th
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“We were fractious and overpaid. Our mornings lacked promise. At least those of...”
– Joshua Ferris, Then We Came to the End
May 19th
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May 18th
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“I cannot count the times I have cursed our lack of urgency. If I ever love...”
– Dave Eggers, What is the What
May 17th
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“I was so convinced that this rare R-rated event comedy featuring women burping...”
– Nikki Finke: ‘Bridesmaids’ Overperforms For $24.4M – Deadline.com (via apsies)
May 15th
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“Almost nothing important that ever happens to you happens because you engineer...”
– David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest
May 14th
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May 13th
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Facebook hired PR agency to plant bad stories... →
soupsoup: “For the past few days, a mystery has been unfolding in Silicon Valley. Somebody, it seems, hired Burson-Marsteller, a top public-relations firm, to pitch anti-Google stories to newspapers, urging them to investigate claims that Google was invading people’s privacy. Burson even offered to help an influential blogger write a Google-bashing op-ed, which it promised it could place in...
May 12th
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May 11th
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“I’m your boyfriend! No backsies!”
– Hal
May 10th
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May 9th
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May 9th
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And my heart went ka-thunk, ka-thunk, ka-thunk.
The kitchen table collapsed, the room filled with water and I floated on my mattress down 81st street watching the children wave while the tide came in and my heart went ka-thunk, ka-thunk, ka-thunk.
May 7th
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May 5th
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Email I just got
placesweusedtogo: Could those responses then be put into a word cloud? Here is your word cloud: shut up.
May 5th
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mknmv asked: Hi lady, are you still traveling? Just curious because of your GPOY. If not, welcome back a la ciudad. Nice threads there by the by.
May 5th
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May 4th
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Deaf & Dumb bards with hand signing quick brilliant gestures Then Journalists, editors’s secretaries, agents, portraitists & photo- graphy aficionados, rock critics, cultured laborors, cultural historians come to witness the historic funeral Super-fans, poetasters, aging Beatnicks & Deadheads, autograph- hunters, distinguished paparazzi, intelligent gawkers Everyone knew they...
May 3rd
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May 1st
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