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Funny Women
I have been thinking a lot about funny women. I’m going to tell you what’s good before I tell you what’s very, very bad.
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Morning Coffee
It’s day four of me filling in for Dan, and I’m starting to think he may have died. This man can probably help me with my future, provided it doesn’t involve being able to wear a hat. After all, without…
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Blogging’s Capacity for Timelessness
“There can be no argument that the blog format gives ‘now’ the pride of place; novelty leads, and the past recedes into a string of ‘older posts’ links and archives pages. But it is a mistake to think that blogs therefore…
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Recollections of a 1903 Fireman
A Journey Round my Skull doesn’t just publish wonderful things to his blog; he also tweets about wonderful things on other people’s blogs. Today he posted a link to a blog called Dreamers Rise, whose author wrote about an extraordinary…
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Random Media Notes
AP journalists wounded in Afghanistan. A laid off Time Inc. staffer plans to launch an “online regional news network” serving the Fort Greene/Clinton Hill area of Brooklyn. (via Mediabistro) LA Times and Chicago Tribune combine national sports beats. VIBE Magazine…
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Real Choice in Afghan Election
A look at the upcoming presidential election in Afghanistan by Tamim Ansary, author of Destiny Disrupted: A History of the World Through Islamic Eyes. I have this recurring nightmare in which my life has gone so wrong, I’ve become the…
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A Reaction Sauce
Yesterday we linked to Malcolm Gladwell‘s most recent New Yorker essay, “The Courthouse Ring,” in which Gladwell discusses Atticus Finch, Alabama Governer “Big Jim” Folsom, race, and “the limits of Southern liberalism.” Well over at The Millions Garth Risk Hallberg…
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The Monthly Rumpus
Were you at August’s Monthly Rumpus? Look at how much fun you had here. Were you not at August’s Monthly Rumpus? Look at a projection of how much fun you could have in September. We hope to see you then.
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Afghanistan Rocks the Vote
We’re not ones to write about pop stars, but NPR is reporting that Afghan “musical hero” Farhad Darya is performing numerous free concerts “to encourage his countrymen to vote in the upcoming presidential election.” On Tuesday night Darya’s show in…
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The Juggalo Gathering 2009
“It’s a Newport! You want the rest? Have it! Have the rest!” See also the 2009 Juggalo Gathering Infomercial.