January 2012
38 posts
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Sleigh Bells- Comeback Kid
Why aren’t these two co-starring in an action movie with no action scenes in it yet?
“3. The writing on Grantland is focused around its percussive elements. You could...”
– Strippertweets on Klosterman’s Tuneyards article.
Uggs, Chlamydia, and Humor
Recently a blog (AndrewTSKS) that I have sincerely enjoyed for a number of years and is run by an editor at RVA Magazine posted a long apology and explanation of how an article equating Uggs and various levels of promiscuity was published by RVA. After its publication the article was strongly attacked on Jezebel for generally being misogynistic and offensive. This brings me to a broader point...
“…the Department of Justice should be gagging on irony: their swift...”
– ~Gizmodo
Brodeo Clowns*
The NCAA has reported that sweet lax bros do more drugs across the board than their athlete peers. Well as someone who could have at various points in their young adult life been described as a lax bro I feel compelled to opine a bit on the study and what it points to. Lacrosse is still a nascent sport in most of the country and it still has relatively high financial barriers to entry. Lacrosse...
use your fucking brains
” The Motion Picture Association of America says its industry brings back more export income than aerospace, automobiles or agriculture, and that piracy costs the country as many as 100,000 jobs.” - NYTimes article on SOPA. Without getting into the very limited scope of the article, this statement and others like it woefully misconstrue the power of SOPA/PIPA. The legislation is...
American English ~Idlewild
was trawling my...
Paula Deen is the next great american novel.
Rise to fame and riches selling a delicious slow death. Sign endorsement deal for the cure. I’m pretty sure this is 60% of Wise Blood.
WatchDavid Chang with real talk on bourbon.
“The last time I talked to a friend about Liturgy, he compared them with some of...”
– Nitsuh Abebe, in Slate.
Don’t you hate it when someone with a big audience says something really stupid about something you really like? You end up having to defend the thing from charges that that particular description of the thing is stupid. And in your head you’re thinking, “I KNOW it’s stupid!...
Concussions in Teenagers and Football. This should... →
“Our culture is marketing. What is marketing? Trying to get people to do what you...”
– Charlie Kaufman on Marketing from his BAFTA-BFI Lecture (via beggarsalll)
ESPN, Sports, and Political Discourse
“Drawing on Marshall McLuhan, cultural critic Neil Postman once argued that ‘Sesame Street’ hampered education by conditioning children to view learning as fun, easy and passive — never mind that serious learning is often tedious, hard, and grueling. The SportsCenter-ization of news works the same way, teaching us that elections are Lakers-Celtics, health care is the BCS,...
December 2011
48 posts
Happy New Years
Thanks for reading. Stay safe. Stay rad.
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Day 1, Day 2
chasingstupid:
Monday was 2 hrs. Today was more like 4 1/2 and it began to rain a bit at the end.
God I love winter training.
When the first droplets of rain hit your vest and you’re still fighting a headwind an hour from home there is a certain unique sense of dread and hope that immediately courses through your legs and up your spine.
U.S. Sales Figures for Pitchfork's Top 50 Albums...
perpetua:
13. EMA Past-Life Martyred Saints - 6,100
If someone makes a transcendent album and nobody buys it to whom does that matter?
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