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Notable New York, This Week 8/16 – 8/22
This week in New York Summer is Short, John Brandon makes a Citrus pit stop, Gary Shteyngart is Super Sad, MGMT is inspired by sex balls, Scott Pilgrim takes over as this week’s Saturday Movie Pick and The Comfort of…
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Morning Coffee
Occupational alphabet, circa 1844 (rad). Trash-sucking tubes (exciting). (via Flavorwire.) Runaway subway (terrifying). Demolition is beginning in Coney Island (sad). (via Movie City News.) Vintage calculators (simplicity).
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The Rumpus Interview With Neal Pollack
A year and a half ago, I started practicing yoga because I wasn’t feeling well. I could barely touch my toes and felt very self-conscious in yoga classes, but kept practicing because I started to feel better. I didn’t know…
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Prop 8 Update
The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals continued Judge Vaughn Walker’s stay pending appeal. On the plus side (and I’m grasping here), the appeal was expedited, which means the process will move faster than it might otherwise. And given that pretty…
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“To Have a Second Lanuage is to Have a Second Soul”
How much does language shape our thinking capabilities? Does it exist only as a tool to reproduce/translate thought or does it take an active role the production of thought? Lera Boroditsky, a professor of psychology at Stanford, examines the dialectic…
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Notable San Francisco, This Week: 8/16-8/22
This week: m.g. martin’s book launch at Space Gallery, explore some linear and visceral expressions of time, Jennifer Jajah Hearts Hamas, and celebrate the birth of another Mission art gallery at Hijinks. Monday 8/16: Do you hate having to explore…
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John Waters’ Secret to Reading a Lot
“Yes, I always read a lot. I read the same amount, no matter what season it is. I read every night. When I’m on book tour, I’m on airplanes all the time, so I’m always reading. People say, ‘How do…
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“Welcome to Porn for the Blind”
“Porn for the Blind is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to producing audio descriptions of sample movie clips from adult web sites. This service is provided free of charge.” The site is exactly what it says it is. And guess what?…
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Ted Wilson Reviews the World #49
NAMBLA ★★★★★ (1 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing NAMBLA.
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Happy Birthday, Bukowski
In honor of what would have been Buk’s 90th birthday we point you to one of our favorite items ever published on this site: Charles Bukowski’s “Unpublished foreword to William Wantling’s 7 on Style [circa 1974].”