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“That’s Racist”
Culturally sensitive accusations turned into humorous catchphrase? Sounds like the kind of comical turnover that only my millennial generation could come up with! “That’s racist” is a quip that has become abundant in various forms (the name of a hip-hop…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Way to find a giant squid Florida. I happen to really like Robert Montgomery’s billboard pieces. Let’s talk about interestingly bound books, yes? Old frying pans and surprisingly fascinating. That sentence said frying pants for a second by the way.…
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Site for Cities
A new destination awaits the city dwellers, lovers, and planners among us. Yesterday The Atlantic announced its plans to launch The Atlantic Cities in September. The imminent site will be “dedicated to the global cities and neighborhoods where we live,…
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Never That Young
“I have all the habits of someone who lived [in New York City] in the ’70s,” Fran Lebowitz tells City Room. “Which is that, if I have a pencil, I have a death grip on it. I see the people…
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FUNNY WOMEN #57: That’s Absolutely Not What She Said
The infamous “She” of the “That’s What She Said” jokes has released a new tell-all book making shocking claims about the joke’s validity.
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The Last Poem I Loved: “Sparrow” by Melissa Kwasny
I’ll be honest: I’m not usually much of a fan of prose poems. I like lineation, form, structure. Give me meter, syllabics, some rules to cling to—if I want a poem that looks like a chunky little square of prose,…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
It is about time we started advertising to monkeys. Need to get married but short on funds? The AutoWed machine costs a mere dollar to use. Evidently the Olympics own 2012. Today in Russian fire-based art. Fake English houses are…
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Notable San Francisco, This Week 6/27-7/3
This week in San Francisco, NYC mags BOMB and Guernica want to meet you (and maybe make-out with you), the Top of the Mark toasts movies of SF and Neko Case treats Stern Grove to a free show.
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National PTSD Awareness Day
The poster person for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder is a war veteran, which isn’t surprising given that anywhere from 11 to 20 percent of veterans of the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan are diagnosed as sufferers. But it’s not solely a…
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How Do We Spend Our Time?
Last week the government released a survey detailing the time-consuming activities of Americans, broken down in terms of gender, race and age. Time spent working is down due to the lack of jobs and alas, an increase in reading is…
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Who Do We Invite To The Orgy?
Tom Lutz at the Los Angeles Review of Books discusses Elizabeth Gumport’s essay in n+1 called “Against Reviews.” Lutz writes “Taste cultures do have something to do with circles of intimates, and the explosion of book clubs in recent years…