December 2010
36 posts
Nobody Tells You: The Whiteness of the Whale →
brookglenkills:
Though in many natural objects, whiteness refiningly enhances beauty, as if imparting some special virtue of its own, as in marbles, japonicas, and pearls; and though various nations have in some way recognised a certain royal preeminence in this hue; even the barbaric, grand old kings of…
bedtime stories!
Brooklyn Mutt: COLUMBINE, DAVE CULLEN →
allcapsornocaps:
lazybookreviews:
THIS BOOK IS INCREDIBLE. NO, FOR SERIOUS.
It’s not even about Columbine, it’s about how first-line media responders create the story, and then cling to it with a death grip, regardless of emerging data.
This is A Very Sincere Recommendation. It’s “In Cold Blood,” but…
DISASTER BOOK CLUB, ARE YOU THINKING WHAT I’M THINKING?
Disaster Book Club might...
my people are great, especially when i don't live... →
“This is the best temperature you can hope for,” said Dave Runyan, 67, who built what he calls the South Georgia Redneck Snowmaker in his backyard last winter, dreaming of just this kind of cold weather.
“basically the logical journey so far is confused”
– my editor on my second draft/an explanation of my life
ok for procrastination punishment i tack on 10 minutes to my bed time. BUT THIS IS WORTH IT: DID YOU KNOW THAT YOU CAN AUTO-SUMMARIZE YOUR PAPERS VIA WORD?!?!?!?!??!?!???!?!??!?!
next semester/final semester joy
Poetics of Surrealism
Students in this course will begin by reading the classic Surrealist texts -manifestos, novels, poetry, etc.- as well as selected works of pre-and proto-Surrealist authors including Rimbaud, Lautreamont, and Georgio De Chirico and key critics of Surrealism like Walter Benjamin. We will then examine the legacy of Surrealism in postmodern American literature, particularly as...
i have obviously forgotten about my extreme distaste for winter because i really really really just want it to snow. just a little snow! just baby amounts of snow! just some holiday cheer! just a good reason to be inside!
“The May 18, 2009, cable, titled “Google China Paying Price for Resisting...”
– HILARZ!!!!!!!!!!!!
“Lexy Hams in his Jammies. I should start a rap group about the complexities of...”
– thank you for making me laugh so fucking hard, you.
“SADY: Like, somehow — hold on a moment while I blow your mind — trend pieces on...”
– tiger beat down, well, beats down. also, fuck you, nyt.
you know you’re overwhelmed when you find yourself tearing up over fucking faulkner quotations that you posted over the summer. mariel, go fuck yourself.
[edited to reflect change] IT SHOCKED ME INTO WRITING!!!!!!!!!! WONDER! JOY! The magic of Faulkner!
“[a good first paragraph but you cram a lot into it—Emerson, diaries, collective...”
– yeah, mm hmm…WHAT. ok. officially on punishment.
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an open letter, to myself
dear overachieving asshole:
your paper is a minimum of twenty pages and a maximum of thirty. i don’t give a flying fuck if this will turn into your thesis. stop dicking around and just spin the rest of what you have into thirteen more golden pages. you do not have to write thirty. write twenty! CHRIST. WRITE EIGHTEEN. Just. God. Damn. Write. Because no amount of bribery or the “right...
If I finish my paper this weekend, I am allowed to buy one of these books. Note: I am not ashamed of my deep abiding love of YA fiction. Not in the least.
das racist kills it →
Do you see your work as a critique of white America? Suri: I think it is solely a critique of John Boehner. As our bandmate Ashok Kondabolu would say, John Boehner represents the utmost in white demonry.
This is precisely why I make a point of never asking rappers questions about politics. Suri: Deborah, chill. Vazquez: Fall back.
confederate, without federation.
oh my god. it is some sad shit that i just parsed this out. i am embarrassed for myself. seriously, it is a miracle i have even gotten this far. public shame was warranted.
“The transition between thought and connection here isn’t clear to me.”
– the truest comment on my edited paper. it’s sad how easily this applies directly to my life.
while we're on the shame boat, friedman did a... →
For Shame →
manyhomednomad:
I grew up in Colorado in a white upper middle class liberal town. The Latino population was segregated to the point that I was hardly aware of their presence until high school. The Native American community was even more invisible, practically erased form a place that still bears its names on streets and mountains.
My father did some legal aid work on Pine Ridge reservation...
also!
elsam:
Hot real estate tip, via Google Maps: if you have some extra money lying around, here are not one, but TWO duplexes for sale in the same building as Jay-Z’s old stash spot! That is definitely someone’s concrete jungle dream being made.
Maybe [yes] the fortune and certainly the fame?
SNAP first paper due! YOU ARE DONE. How about that? It only took me most of last night and maybe some time at work today. MAYBE. But considering I had to be in at 7 30 a.m. I think that little break was warranted. Now, you go through the edit process which means I am not actually finished and then you and I have to turn you into a script for my video short because what is a history class...