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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Top 10 LP's 2011: #8 TIE!
Both of these records are better than the records below them but not better than the ones above. They both strike the same chord with me but for different reasons. Basically you’ve got Olde English and a decent red wine; same itch, different scratch. It seems like this year, at least in the bottom half of this “Top 10” list, I am really embracing the arbitrary nature of list...
All those words I wrote earlier about Tebow,... →
Tebow: How Religion Ruins Everything.
So the Pats beat the Broncos by a couple of scores yesterday. I could write a whole post about this season as a Pats fan but what has really gotten stuck in my craw was the post-game reaction to all things Tebow. To wit: “ You’re either for him or against him and even if you’re not, people on one side or another believe you are.” Although the article ends up being a somewhat measured...
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“Death is certain, replacing both the siren-song of Paradise and the dread of...”
– Christopher Hitchens (via raptoravatar)
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Serious Time
Because the world waits, I must get serious about my Top10 LP’s for this year and get those posts rolling.
But is it subversive? Does that matter?
“But 21st-century blackness has lost its rigid center, and irony permeates the cultural membrane. More than kids knowing they can be president of the United States, it might be more crucial to the expansion of black identity that — thanks to, say, N.E.R.D or Odd Future — they know they can be skate punks. Kanye West can release an album called The College Dropout, then run around the world...
Amazon Launches Christmas Attack on Local Shops →
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vanityferal:
THIS IS VIIIIIIIIIIIIIILE. EW.
Honestly, I think this is sort of a great tactic.
I usually feel like retail is such an ankle-grab as far as even finding what I want (no one at my mall has frog feet, my comic store doesn’t have scalped, my record store has to ORDER fucked up) that I’d rather just capitulate openly to the idea that physical retails game is out of...
DARPA Shredder Challenge
“The DARPA Shredder Challenge underscores the value of increasing the number and diversity of problem solvers.” ~DARPA Director Regina Dugan
So the Treasury spent $50k on a algorithm challenge that inspired 1000’s of hours of work by bright minds trying to solve a problem. Of course when it comes to propping up an ossified structure like the large banks the Treasury will spend...
unconnectedincidents asked: write about the most interesting stranger you've ever encountered in passing.
Mini FJM
Just want to do a little Fire Joe Morgan with some of the insanity from this Jim Trotter piece:
Sanchez’s situation illuminates how the barometer for quarterback play is changing in the age of pass-oriented offenses and fantasy football leagues. QBs were once judged on wins and losses. Now victories carry less weight with some people if they’re unaccompanied by big stats.
This is a...
