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Casey Dayan
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Free Piano, Williamsburg
If anybody is in need of a free piano, please see this ad. Although be wary. Keep an eye on your genitalia. On JULY 4TH 2012, at approximately 4 pm my GRANDMOTHER DIED while playing “You’re a Grand Old Flag”…
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Ray Bradbury’s Little Yellow Home
Ray Bradbury’s home is up for sale. You can peep the original ad here. His three-bedroom, 2500-square-foot house, built in 1937, is painted a cheery yellow. It has three bathrooms, hardwood floors, and sits on a generously sized 9,500-square-foot lot.…
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Little Book Amok
As authority disseminates across webs of increasingly smaller presses and publications, it becomes harder and harder for new authors to see their books on bookstore shelves, especially those of larger stores like Barnes & Noble’s. Unless, of course, they put…
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Marx & Peretti
Buzzfeed founder Jonah Peretti graduated from the University of California, Santa Cruz in 1996, and soon after published a paper in Negations about Marxism, capitalism, and MTV that “more or less lays out (and critiques) Buzzfeed’s entire business model—a full…
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Standing Alone in a Room at a Desk
If you’re tired of sitting alone in a room at a desk, try standing alone in a room at a slightly higher desk. There are health benefits. And Hemingway did it. Which makes it seem much less silly. Here is…
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Prevent the Dog from Barking with a Juicy Bone
What is it that you do? What is at stake, and where is your heart? Remember Kafka’s imperial messenger? Are you sitting at the window, dreaming? Between the broken satellites, below jaundiced clouds pumped fat with sulfate, through the hazy…
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This Totally Sounds Like That One Play
VLAD: (points at ESTHER’s legs) What’s with the leg warmers? ESTHER: What do you mean? VLAD: I’ve never seen you wear them. ESTHER: I don’t know what to tell you. They’re warm. Can you help me with this? (With VLAD’s…
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The Drinkable Book
It sounds like a Shel Silverstein poem, but The Drinkable Book is an educational text about safe water that doubles as a water filter. Each page is impregnated with silver nanoparticles (which gives the paper its distinctive orange colouring). The nanoparticles…
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Peter Parker, the Very Human Superhero
Take a peep at this The Millions essay for some reasons why Spider-man is such a likeable character. In the end, he was profiting off of violence, on fights that he sometimes started. He was also a dishonest journalist. After he…
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George Carlin versus Vladimir Putin
The New Yorker pulled this from Pushkin’s “The Wagon of Life;” it contains swearing: At dawn we jump inside the wagon. Happy to break our necks like glass, We scorn life’s hedonistic languor, And yell “Man, fuck it! Just haul…
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HAHAHAHA? LOL?
See here for a perspicuously articulated inquiry into the efficacy of one of our most oft-used signifiers. Here’s the thing about ‘lol’: What in the hell does that even mean? That I’m laughing out loud? Yeah, that really comes across when I’m…
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For Freedom, for Alice and Scheherazade
In Febraury, the New York Times published an article about Ilham Tohti, an Uyghur economics professor and scholar who was indicted for inciting separatism by critiquing Chinese policy. The article described “charges of separatism [in China as] notoriously Kafkaesque and especially…