August 2011
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Dear United Airlines: I Want My Kindle, and My... →
My sorta-related experience: I was so loopy after my flight home from Frankfurt in 1999 that I left my walkman (YES, A WALKMAN) in the seat pocket.
Our college choir had flown Lufthansa and I had not had a wonderful experience on the way over to Europe (because the elderly Indian woman in the seat in front of me was practically in my lap the whole trip). On that flight, the flight attendant...
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“But there are people who are not stupid, who don’t love seeing people get...”
– Ethical ‘Reality’: A Proposed Code For Producers To Live By : Monkey See : NPR
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Penny can just got real, y'all
Who has two thumbs and got Cougar Town season 2 from Amazon today? THIS GAL
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PARKS AND RECREATION SEASON 4 SNEAK PEEK VIDEO →
omgomgomg so excited. PS I hate when people use “peak” when it should be “peek” (so I fixed the spelling in the text for the link). Ok.
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“Even advanced concepts, like organized labor, show up in children’s literature....”
– Fairies, Witches and Supply and Demand - NYTimes.com. Click, Clack, Moo FTW!
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-8-28) →
Jehro (10)
Gillian Welch (9)
Fountains Of Wayne (5)
Say Hi (5)
Company Of Thieves (3)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
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Miracle or Mirage, What Kinds of Jobs Has Texas... →
According to statistics from the Texas Workforce Commission, the annual median wage in 2010 for all occupations in Texas was $31,500, or 7 percent less than the national median.
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rauchbros:
Next week, we’re releasing three new shorts to mark the 10th anniversary of the September 11th attacks. The three stories are remembrances of four different people that died in the World Trade Center and are each told by a family member of the deceased. Join us at the Brooklyn Museum on Sunday, September 11th for a special screening and Q&A of these films.
Below is a short...
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-8-21) →
Jehro (11)
Company Of Thieves (9)
Kate Nash (6)
Gillian Welch (6)
Kelly Clarkson (5)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
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omg, "Spaceballs" is on Netflix Instant
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Traci Brimhall, "Via Dolorosa"
We have been telling the story wrong all along, how a king took Philomela’s tongue after he had taken her body, and how the gods turned her into a nightingale
so she could tell the night of her grief. Even now the streets wait for her lamentation—strays minister to bones abandoned on a stoop, a man sleeps on the ghosts of yesterday’s heat,
pigeons rest on top of the church and will not stir...
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Kate Spencer: A thought. →
katespencer:
Obviously everyone today is talking about the Assssscat monologue from the Del Close Marathon in which a man essentially confesses to raping a woman. As we should be. So let me take a moment to say this:
This man is not alone. He is part of a much larger problem…
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So, a quotation engraved on the MLK Jr. monument... →
oops.
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Rick Perry as President, Based Solely on his... →
Subject: Principles of Economics Grade: D
Well, clearly that professor was an idiot. Rick Perry totally gets economics. Or perhaps you haven’t heard of a little thing called the Texas Miracle. Perry has created 265,000 jobs in the past two years. And it’s not because people are moving here, or because of immigration, or because of the oil industry or natural gas or Mexico’s drug war. It’s...
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“Much of the chaos that our brains filter out is words, because more often than...”
– Joshua Foer, Moonwalking with Einstein, p. 124-5. I’ve also been working on reading this book for what seems like a month. It’s taking me longer because I’ve been easily distracted from it (why not watch an episode of Futurama instead?) PLUS non-fiction just takes me longer to get...
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The problem is Texanism -- not Texans - War Room -... →
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President Obama: Why don't you read more women? →
cheatsheet:
A good question.
EXACTLY what I thought when I saw his list.
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WatchI got goosebumps just watching this teaser trailer. I can’t wait to see this! [Watch the Teaser for The Lady, Luc Besson’s Political Drama — Vulture]
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