April 2008
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The Billy Letters →
An unemployed writer poses as a 10 year old boy and sends letters to infamous celebrities… Responses and Hilarity ensue. He later ‘follows up’ with them as a college student, 10 years later. [via]
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“Read this stuff the way you would any travelogue. Don’t mistake it for...”
– A Comment on “Jared Diamond on vengeance”
“What is a cult book? We tried and failed to arrive at a definition: books often...”
– 50 best cult books
“It’s Anacortes, WA where, historically-speaking, kids have always been riddled...”
– Bunch Of Kids Donate Basement Space To Musicians, Call It A Festival. What The Heck?
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Stuff White People Do →
See? This is actually funny. And by funny i mean ‘pertinent’. In a way that makes me feel like an asshole. And that isn’t that ironic hipster way of interacting with race/ethnicity.
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The term "world music" has finally become... →
With an increasing globalization of culture, and increasingly easy access to music via the internet, can we finally talk about why we ever used this exotifying term in the first place? [via]
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“I believe strongly that art should be a medium for politics and ideologies, not...”
– For senior, abortion a medium for art, political discourse
Beatie’s Story →
Now a man and named Thomas, Beatie got married to Nancy, who, as it turns out, cannot bear children. After stopping the hormones and undergoing several rounds of artificial insemination, Thomas is now pregnant.
“Sometimes it’s hard to correctly count all the dead bodies in a massacre”
– The Bible’s greatest massacres
“Every time I think I’ve painted something original, I find out that Blek le Rat...”
– Blek le Rat: The New Banksy?
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“Every other day or so, I google image search your name / but there’s only...”
– Jason Anderson’s “Watch Your Step”
“Tangent: If you have to be taught how to be eccentric, you are not and will...”
– Elle Magazine Says Auf Wiedersehen To Nina Garcia
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“Their world is younger than crack and therefore have no knowledge of a world...”
– We Are the Crack Generation
“REMIX! 6 Ways that Rappers are Like Bloggers 1. Lack of Quality Control...”
– rafi commenting on 6 Ways That Bloggers are Like Rappers [via]
“The indie kids learned to do a lot in the last decade: First they found...”
– SOMEONE’S LISTENING IN: HOW INDIE ROCK MORPHED INTO ADULT CONTEMPORARY
“Could be the squirrel testing out to see if you’re in town.”
– George Washington Carver is haunting me.
The Great Tortilla Conspiracy →
A tortilla art collective; an art collective that paints on and otherwise decorations tortillas. Agenda? The Conspiracy uses their art to raise issues related to identity, immigration, miracle tortilla apparitions, the high price of tortillas in Mexico, and the rise of Transgenic Corn. The genetic engineering of corn is something that is impacting millions of people in the United States and Mexico...
Thank You, White People →
Thanks, White people, for everything you’ve done for Black people in America and Africa. We really, really should be more grateful and keep these thoughts in our hearts
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“Adams agreed. “Rich people can afford psychiatrists, poor people have to go help...”
– Out of this world
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“The drugs you do were made by people who think in dollar signs / and thats not...”
– “Power Plant” by Andrew Jackson Jihad
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“5. Most places already have a built-in soundtrack. Bangkok isn’t Bangkok...”
– The sound of silence: 5 reasons to leave the iPod at home
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“Witness testimony and other evidence underlay the prosecution’s theory...”
– Helter skelter
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“Yes, friends. I just wanted to print a Word document but four (4) Office...”
– Twitter / Merlin Mann
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“McGee tells us that putting metal in a microwave is perfectly safe as long as we...”
– The Microwave Oven: Do You Actually Cook With Yours?
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“ Arabs are part of an ethnic group, not a religion. Arabs were around long...”
– What Every American Should Know About the Middle East