December 2011
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Dec 31st
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“It is, as a rule, inexpedient to begin a book with the peroration. Children are...”
– John Runciman, Haydn, from the 1904 Bell’s Miniature Series of Musicians. Doing some research for a thing and just ran across this series of short biographies published at the turn of the 20th century—something like 33⅓ for classical composers—and I mean, oof. Like, on the one hand I’m...
Dec 31st
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“It seems that any fair judgment of a given year’s least important event must...”
– In which I speak ill of the dead for The Morning News’ “The Year That Wasn’t.”
Dec 30th
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Dec 30th
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Dec 29th
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Eleven Things I Wrote in 2011 that Looking Back On...
the time I got my first Christmas tree and had some FEELINGS the money is the problem, duh FUCK YOU, AUGUST yo, that’s not “context shifting,” that’s just straight up stealing something something LeBron James is a huge dick! hey jackass, you don’t get to whine when free shit goes down SHUT UP ABOUT CHARLIE SHEEN ALREADY oh right, I’m pretty proud...
Dec 29th
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Dec 29th
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Dec 24th
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Dec 23rd
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Dec 22nd
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Dec 20th
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Dec 19th
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Dec 16th
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“Part of the cruel genius of capitalism lies in its ability to make all activity...”
– The Resentment Machine
Dec 15th
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Dec 15th
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Dec 14th
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You should read this!! →
Dec 14th
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Today’s edition of Things I Read that Very Nearly Brought Me to Tears on the Subway, this time via Ron Suskind’s The Confidence Men: Dick Fuld, who had joined the company in 1969, two years ahead of Carmine, took him aside. “You know, Carmine,” he said, “I think this will be the last time a guy like you is named managing partner.” Carmine wasn’t sure if he meant it to be a...
Dec 14th
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Dec 13th
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“The online Global Language Monitor, which professes to track what’s hot in...”
– WNYC: ‘Tebowing’ Is So Hot It’s Now A Word
Dec 13th
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Dec 13th
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“Imagine, if you will, a man who, as Speaker of the House, orchestrates the...”
– Hendrik Hertzberg, The New Yorker.
Dec 13th
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Dec 9th
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Dec 8th
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Dec 8th
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Question:
Way back in the day I used to take night classes at a university that allowed students to remotely proxy through its servers and gain access to all the electronic journals offered on the library terminals. I’ve been finding myself more and more lately wishing I had access to things like Lexis, JSTOR and the National Journal Hotline, so I wonder: do such proxies still exist? And if so: are...
Dec 8th
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Dec 7th
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Dec 5th
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Dec 5th
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Dec 5th
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Dec 2nd
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Dec 2nd
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