January 2012
“I admire narcissism in Momus and others who “own” it and use it as a way to...”
– The Rumpus Interview with Marie Calloway
December 2011
“Have you noticed small commodities are increasingly difficult to remove from...”
– Guernica / Fellow Prisoners
“For a 21st century character, Jess is completely dependent on others perhaps...”
– Who’s That Girl
“All you sucka MCs ain’t got nothin’ on me! From my grades, to my...”
– Mean Girls
“We’re all going to be rich,” he says. “We’re all going to live forever. All the...”
– California and Bust | Business | Vanity Fair
“The girls’ brains are so unusually formed that doctors could not predict what...”
– Could Conjoined Twins Share a Mind?
“What happens when a society loses its ability to self-regulate, and insists on...”
– Michael Lewis, “California and Bust”
“Still, we are, in the main, ordinary people living in plush times. We are smart...”
– Ta-Nehisi Coates, “A Muscular Empathy” in response to “If I Were a Poor Black Kid”
NPR: 2011's Top 5 YA Novels →
“Because if smart women who know how smart they are intimidate men (and they do),...”
– Tiger Beatdown › 13 Ways of Looking at Liz Lemon
“Or, perhaps even better, how about Santana is allowed to be her own damn hero?...”
– Dorothy Surrenders on Santana
gcal
Melissa: do you still check my calendar?
me: um no, should i?
Melissa: of course
me: I don't understand anything on your calendar "everyday I'm trufflin"
Melissa: it makes perfect sense
today I am making truffles
when i put in "every day i'm trufflin" it put "i'm trufflin" on every day of my calendar
How to pronounce "Drizzt, Entreri, and Jarlaxle." →
“You’ve either experienced slush or you haven’t, and the difference is not...”
– When anyone can be a published author (2010)
The immortal Judy Garland sings "Have Yourself A... →
“Even after conducting these interviews, I’d be lying if I claimed to...”
– Chuck Klosterman, “Whatever Happened to the Triangle Offense?”
“Women who identify and resist sexism are challenged and silenced in a number of...”
– s.e. smith, “it’s all in your head”
“Brooklyn’s story, then, doesn’t lend itself to a simple happy ending. Instead,...”
– How Brooklyn Got Its Groove Back
Paste Magazine: 50 Best Songs of 2011 →
“For most of the last century, America’s cultural landscape—its fashion, art,...”
– You Say You Want a Devolution?
“Maybe, as Davis and her “new” findings suggest, once you get the canoe out in...”
– The Wifely Duty
“All the business about peace and love, social conscience, the brotherhood of...”
– Alone at the Movies (2008)
“Now, let me make this very clear, because there seems to be a little...”
– Kartina Richardson, “This is the Problem: Writing About Film”
“Pity porn allows people to escape responsibility for institutional, structural,...”
– s.e. smith, “Pity Porn and Social Responsibility”
“Do we really need school? I don’t mean education, just forced schooling:...”
– Against School, 2003 (via Raymeaux)
The Longform.org Guide to NBA Legends →
“We have a name for the kind of person who collects a detailed, permanent dossier...”
– The Social Graph is Neither
