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Saturday Morning Links
So an hour after this goes up, I’ll be leading an informal wine-tasting. My new job has its perks. I’ll probably be the only one spitting, though. What would you do for a free hotel room? A reminder that we…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
I hope y’all are ready for transparent skin. 1970s art manifesto houses! Attention: outer space has way too much junk in it’s outer space trunk. Seriously dudes, soviet-era art and design is the best. Dolphin death is the saddest, but…
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Poor Word Choice and its Consequences
Maya Angelou is ruffling some feathers with a recent statement insulting the choice of words that are splayed across the side of the new Martin Luther King Jr. Monument in Washington: “I was a drum major for justice peace and…
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Young Journalists in a Cut-Throat World
There’s yet another example of underpaid and undervalued journalists, this time from the campaign bus. Budget cutbacks have filled these buses with fledging reporters, in contrast to the seasoned political journalists that once occupied those very seats. Mid twenty years…
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The Freelance Revolution
“Today, careers consist of piecing together various types of work, juggling multiple clients, learning to be marketing and accounting experts, and creating offices in bedrooms/coffee shops/coworking spaces. Independent workers abound. We call them freelancers, contractors, sole proprietors, consultants, temps, and…
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Who and What is Happy?
Science and philosophy are the academic parents of the social sciences, which is interesting considering the current obsession with happiness. There’s always an updated study on what (or what doesn’t) make human beings happy, from the psychological/sociological perspective, always backed…
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The Beatles as a Pronoun Treasure Trove
Pronouns are really in right now—probably the most popular figure of speech at the moment. And they deserve all the attention because of their linguistic functionality, their significance in unveiling our true social psyche, and their ubiquity in Beatles lyrics.…
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Best Sex Writing 2012
The official Table of Contents won’t be released for a couple of weeks, but a little birdie whispered in our ears (okay, announced it on her Facebook page) that Roxane Gay’s piece “The Careless Language of Sexual Violence”, which we…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Welcome to the world 7th billion person! Early 70s Cuban stamps are pretty great. Here are some things you can do with typewriters. 100 year old colored photographs of Russian life! woo! Let’s all pour one out for poor ol…
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A New Shirt to Not Wear
This one’s been getting the social media special today, but is always worthy of a re-mentioning. The latest in sartorial controversy is one very offensive JCPenney shirt that actually delivered this message to the 7-16 year old girls for whom…
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A Didion Present For You
Today the internet’s got some literary gold to offer you! Joan Didion’s essay, “Some Dreamers of the Golden Dream,” one of the essays from Slouching Towards Bethlehem, is online! (via @bookslut)
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Tonight in Brooklyn!
Whatcha doin tonight, Brooklyn? There’s no better way to celebrate the end of the storm than going to this Believer Magazine event at Public Assembly. It’s a celebration of the 2011 music issue (a copy of which is rewarded to…