May 2010
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one of the great questions of our time (seriously) →
April 2010
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the untold story of the sex pistols movie →
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As Palin took to the stage in New Orleans, I sat... →
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culture(s)
she: what's that?
he: a brush
she: brush for what?
he: my hair
she: you brush your hair?
he: of course
she: with that thing?
he: obviously
she: it looks like a shoe brush
he:
she: that's a hair brush?
he:
she: but your hair is so short!
he: see how it looks when i brush it backwards?
she: ok
he: now see how it looks when i brush it forwards?
she: yes
he: now doesn't it look better when i do it forwards? and see, i brush it all the way around
she: oh
he:
she: and you do that all the time?
he: this is ridiculous
she: ridiculous?
he: not exactly ridiculous, i guess it's just funny
she: funny?
he: yeah, funny
she: like funny-weird, or
he:
she: what was the other one?
he: funny-haha?
she: yeah, is it funny-weird or funny-haha?
he: i suppose it's a combination of both
she: oh.
he:
she: heh. funny-haha.
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une femme est une femme est anna karina →
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the trouble with therapy is that it makes life go... →
how the ncaa is failing its student athletes →
i think you should always foul in this situation →
a world without planes →
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“My fate seemed to be to meet women it was impossible not to love, but whom it was impossible to love right.”
-Danny Deck
via (yvonnegeorgina)
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a tale of two volcanoes
“Where Iceland’s volcano has set off a wave of high-technology panic, Java’s event set off something benign and really quite lovely: worldwide displays of light and color that reduced mankind to a state of stunned amazement. Where Iceland has caused shock, Java resulted in awe. And where Eyjafjalla’s ashes seem to have cost millions in lost business, Krakatoa’s dust left the world not just a...
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Tocqueville was almost comically unprepared for the exercise. Just 25 years old...
– The Best Road Trip Ever - Alexis de Tocqueville’s Discovery of America
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where we'll eat next time we hit paris →
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weird people doing weird things in weird places
this is consistently the best website for stories like this
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my new favorite experimental french trip-hop/post-rock band
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In Zimbabwe, as the rule of Robert Mugabe's... →
so you're in new york and you have the munchies →
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Shakespeare said everything... He speaks to... →
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100 essential jazz albums →
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yvonnegeorgina:
I asked him about his experience with a former lover. What was she like? He thought for a moment and shrugged. I don’t know, he said. I can’t remember.
A sad thing is an unremembered lover.
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"She was sweating so hard on the dance floor that... →
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VT32 →
“Today is April 16th. It has been three years. I have a weird relationship with the number three. It’s my lucky number, I suppose, but it’s more than that. When I was little, I would step on cracks and break mothers’ backs with impunity, but I’d take tiny steps inside each sidewalk square. Three steps each. If the square was too small for steps I’d hop on it...
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spent a week in a dusty library
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During Britain’s century of dominion, its self-confident servants of empire,...
– a brilliant, brilliant article re: afghanistan
the rise and fall of the zulu nation →
if you give a cat an ipad →
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what david foster wallace circled in his... →
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Roughly every second Friday, a warehouse on the fringes of Bedford-Stuyvesant...
– Brooklyn: The Borough That Never Sleeps
(we went last year and are definitely going to be there this summer, get at us!)
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