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Isaac Fitzgerald
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Cash Money Tweets
“In cases where Twitter content is the basis (in whole or in part) of the advertising sale, we require you to compensate us (recoupable against any fees payable to Twitter for data licensing).” Twitter has released new terms of service,…
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Do You Know Where Your Towel Is?
“Towel Day events are taking place around the world, and include a pub lunch in Brisbane, flashmobs in Brazil and Berlin, a picnic in Budapest, a Vogon poetry slam in Portland, Oregon, a beer party in Zagreb and a ‘nice…
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Tune of the Day
Artists: Gil Scott Heron (Featuring Mos Def) Song: “New York Is Killing Me” Previously: Gil Scott-Heron (Featuring Nas)
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“Big man wanted for long, deep, throbbing bone worship.”
“I wished it was a joke. An exception. Something. But oh so unfortunately, there were a lot of somethings. Turns out there were many people who wanted to engage in bone worship, and not the cross cultural, Iranian-American, funny-poignant, coming-of-age…
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Happy Birthday Scout
To Kill a Mockingbird turns 50 this year, and a lot of people are celebrating.
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Scoring Chaplin
“Film scoring is an essential part of cinema, and it’s a part of cinema that works — when it works — completely unconsciously. When you hear a great score after the movie, you’re unaware you heard anything.” Our own New…
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“A Curiously Obsessive First Novel”
“On its face, the novel’s title suggests both communal and individual aspects of identity. What defines Paul? If blood, he’s half Samoan, half white. If experience, his years in prison are counter-balanced by those spent at an elite all-boys’ Catholic…
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MetaFilter to the Rescue
“The message thread reads like the play-by-play from an alternate reality game, wherein complete strangers work together to solve a complex mystery. But the drama that played out on MetaFilter this week was no game. If not for the intrepid…
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Lethem Is Leaving NYC
“In a way, I need to be dreaming my way back here. The longing and exile are part of my relationship to writing about this place.” Jonathan Lethem is leaving New York City for California, “where he will become the…
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“‘I know what kind of asshole I am and it’s a different kind of asshole than they think I am.’”
“I know it probably sounds disingenuous saying this and obviously the various ways that I’ve been in public and whether its been exalted or humiliated have enabled me to make a living but that’s really all its done. That shouldn’t…