September 2011
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"Safe Slope" Will Walk You Home This Weekend,... →
capitalnewyork:
It’s true! (Full disclosure: I’m an organizer and volunteer with Safe Slope.)
Insta-reblog, obviously, because I mean who the hell knows how long it’ll be before the next time people who live in New York City and use the internet will make me :D :D :D instead of make me http://mattlanger.com/mattlanger.gif.
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“As Cervantes realized in the context of the newly born mass culture of the...”
– William Egginton, “‘Quixote,’ Colbert and the Reality of Fiction”
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Collective nouns: how do they work?!
So last night, one asshole (maybe two? hard to tell!) shouted boos at a gay serviceman, and today every headline and tweet and Facebook status update I’ve seen runs along the lines of “GOP debate crowd boos gay military member.”
At the previous debate, two assholes (maybe three? hard to tell!) shouted “Yeah!” after Wolf Blitzer asked Ron Paul if an uninsured man...
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“There comes a moment in all hangovers when the sufferer comes to a fork in the...”
– Sam Sifton, Hey Mr. Critic.
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First as parody, then as farce.
Remember that episode of “The West Wing” when Sam’s ex-fiancée (“Hey is the reason you two didn’t get married because her name would have been Lisa Sherborne Seaborn?”) is doing a piece for Vanity Fair on the State of the Union and Sam calls Joey and Kenny over to explain the dials to Lisa and she asks what the different lines mean and Joey says...
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Ten Headlines We May Yet See Before Friday, In...
10) “How 9/11 Changed Media Criticism,” by Howard Kurtz
9) “How 9/11 Changed Your Horoscope,” by Susan Miller
8) “How 9/11 Changed Queer Theory,” by Lady Gaga
7) “How 9/11 Changed Holiday Entertaining,” by Martha Stewart
6) “How 9/11 Changed Hegel,” by Slavoj Žižek
5) “How 9/11 Changed the Nuclear Family,” by Kim, Khloe...
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