October 2011
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Winner winner, chicken dinner
beefranck replied to your post: NaNoWriMo? I don’t know, probably a no-go.
Oh no? You could write about hobo bonobos!
NaNoWriMo? I don't know, probably a no-go.
My best efforts are usually just so-so. You guys go right ahead, though.
That photo of the roses would have gotten a lot...
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ohheygreat:
For the past several years, while the mainstream media was dutifully reporting on all things Kardashian or (more recently) a wholly manufactured debt-ceiling crisis, ordinary people were losing their health care, their homes, their jobs, and their savings. Those people have taken that narrative to Facebook and Twitter—just as citizens took to those alternative forms of media...
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One course meals like beef stew, chili beans, or clam chowder. Especially on chilly Sunday afternoons.
Curly-haired girls with freckles and easy smiles.
Spending Saturday afternoon washing and waxing whatever car we own, and then taking you for a long nighttime drive with windows down and the heater blowing on our toes to offset the chill.
Ice cream cones in the summer.
Labrador...
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“What the 99% Movement is really against is liars, and what I think the rest of...”
– Ned Hepburn (via crookedindifference)
Seconded. I don’t care what the 99% look like, or how scruffy they are.
This moment of pissed-offedness brought to you by...
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Home Sweet Home
“I don’t think of myself as a developer,” Walker said last week. “I see real estate as an efficient way to change a place. “I could have spent the last 10 years handing out leaflets, joining community groups trying to get a slumlord to do a better job. Or I could buy the house and fix it up.”
Commerce and capitalism, he says, are underused but profoundly...
tbmimsthethird: And Other Things
I love when you guys write about who you are. Mims is good people.
Jon Bon Jovial →
chaztoo:
Tumblr makes this kind of foolishness way too easy.
This has potential.
HAH!
Just booked a second-hand/vintage clothing store to provide the outfits and props for my photoshoot.
I start interviewing models Tuesday morning. I’m hoping to get a few more responses from my ad between now and Friday - the people I’ve talked to so far are all younger than what I had pictured in my head. I wanted subjects with at least a few wrinkles and scars, and I’m pretty...
That thing where you click "like" on someone's...
There needs to be a word for that.
WatchDawes - Time Spent in Los Angeles
I’m going on near two weeks straight of listening almost exclusively to these guys. Really, really good stuff.
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“Perhaps it’s like I said, that I’m just not cut out for this. Every day I see content generated by cute little goth teenagers that I follow, multiple posts, some with (horrendously spelled and incorrectly used) words, others with photos. These kids play on the glowy box between going to school, working part-time at the mall, and dealing with their various obligations, be they social,...
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Dios mio, it's Jinxybee!: You know, when I lived... →
jinxybee:
You know, when I lived in Costa Rica there were bloody corpses posted on the cover of 2 of the country’s most popular newspapers on a daily basis (usually car accidents or stabbings and usually next to a picture of some non-attractive girl wearing a g-string and sticking out her ass.) I kind of…
Exactly right.
The people who actually profit from war would like nothing more...
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What The Living Do - Marie Howe (excerpt)
This is it. Parking. Slamming the car door shut in the cold. What you called that yearning.
What you finally gave up. We want the spring to come and the winter to pass. We want whoever to call or not call, a letter, a kiss—we want more and more and then more of it.
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WatchGVOYAAP
Volatile Essence: Sometimes, journalists shouldn't... →
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ronbailey:
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TerryMoran Terry Moran
#Gadhafi is dead, Libyan state television says. He wrecked his country, murdered thousands, stole billions. A monster. Don’t RIP.
Gaddafi is a son-of-a-bitch. I, in my position as a non-journalist, can say this. Moran, as an anchor, is not in the…
I think it’s just the opposite. People think journalists are a joke...
Volatile Essence: Sometimes, journalists shouldn't... →
rosieloveswords:
TerryMoran Terry Moran
#Gadhafi is dead, Libyan state television says. He wrecked his country, murdered thousands, stole billions. A monster. Don’t RIP.
Gaddafi is a son-of-a-bitch. I, in my position as a non-journalist, can say this. Moran, as an anchor, is not in the…
I think it’s just the opposite. People think journalists are a joke precisely because they...
Kick It Till It Breaks
“Note that this kind of “secondary strike” is illegal when done on the labor side. In other words, if one union goes on strike at a firm somewhere, other unions aren’t allowed to engage in solidaristic boycotts of the firm if it decides to stay in business by hiring replacement workers. The teamsters can’t refuse to make deliveries. This ban on secondary strikes deprives unions of the...
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