January 2011
AMNESTY WEEK 2K10: Ke$ha – Cannibal →
If you’ve drifted away from the Singles Jukebox because “they never post anything anymore” — circumstances, man — there’s a bunch of year-end catching-up there now. This one wasn’t my nomination (it was, for number-gaming reasons, Dave’s), but it gives me an opportunity to make my final update to my...
Jan 1st
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December 2010
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“39. Vampire Weekend released a really good Kinks album. I also heard they wear...”
– Nate Patrin’s 50 Subjective and Mostly-Disconnected Thoughts on A Pretty Good 2010 is long, but well worth reading.
Dec 31st
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TOLD YOU ABOUT THEM STAIRS BRO.swf →
kennthium: oodfriend: nyankops: omfg (You can grab him with your mouse if he gets stuck) I screamed yes Good God this is way more fun than it has any right to be.
Dec 31st
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Happy birthday to me Who am now thirty three; One breath closer to death, Which I’d rather not be.
Dec 30th
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OH WAIT I COULD JUST USE LAST.FM STATS.
Dec 30th
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One more time, because it needs to be said:
If you don’t know how to use Middle English (or Early Modern English) verb tenses, please, please don’t try.
Dec 30th
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Time for The Disintegration Loops to drown out the life story of a guy who appeared on Dawson’s Creek so I can get some work done.
Dec 30th
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List of Things I Probably Won't Actually Do in...
1. Be better about listening to new music. Not out of critical compunction, but to prevent any available joy from slipping through my fingers. 2. Read more of substance. Fewer comment wars on pop-culture websites and more thoughtful essays on a broader range of websites. 3. Read more things that aren’t websites. I’ve got the beginnings of a superb postgraduate course in modernist...
Dec 30th
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Happy birthday to me Who am now thirty three; One breath closer to death, Which I’d rather not be.
Dec 30th
List of Things I Probably Won't Actually Do in...
1. Be better about listening to new music. Not out of critical compunction, but to prevent any available joy from slipping through my fingers. 2. Read more of substance. Fewer comment wars on pop-culture websites and more thoughtful essays on a broader range of websites. 3. Read more things that aren’t websites. I’ve got the beginnings of a superb postgraduate course in modernist...
Dec 29th
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Goddammit, I forgot “Na Na Na (Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na)” on my year-end list. The flaw in the pattern that the true rug-weaver leaves in as a reminder of humility before Allah. I’ll just keep telling myself that.
Dec 29th
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“I have no relations near me to interfere with us and besides I am an orphan and...”
– TNC reproduces a beautiful, heartbreaking letter from 1867. Read the whole thing.
Dec 29th
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Man, people just now discovering the Wayback...
I was there in ‘96, and I was there the first time people were making fun of how crappy the Internet was in ‘96. (2002.) All you millennials get off my lawn.
Dec 29th
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Apologies for the manic posting frequency, by the way. A day off, a new computer, and writing to procrastinate on isn’t a good combination. Don’t worry, I’ll get back to a depressive trickle soon enough.
Dec 29th
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Brief responses to the bonus tracks:
“VIP” — Ke$ha goes class-warfare on the aspirational end of Partying, less satisfyingly than on “Sleazy,” but enough to complicate the unreflective party-girl stereotype. “Frenzy” — Half-formed song raising ideas which would cohere better in “Blow” among others, notable mostly for further ambiguous Jesus references. “Chain...
Dec 29th
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Dec 29th
WAIT WAIT WAIT ... THERE ARE BONUS TRACKS ON SOME...
Brb, listening to Ke$ha B-sides.
Dec 29th
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“If you’re going to be so unspeakably gauche as to allow yourself to get...”
– Every decent men’s clothing store I’ve visited in the past year.
Dec 29th
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“If you’re going to be so unspeakably gauche as to allow yourself to get...”
– Every decent men’s clothing store I’ve visited in the past year.
Dec 29th
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The Unread
tomewing: This is a list of the books on my shelves which I haven’t read. Titles in italics have been started at least once. Not included are: - Books I have no intention of ever reading (or finishing). These should really just go to the charity shop now. - Books I have lost, obviously. - Books stored at my parents or my in-laws’ house. I have read most of these, but by no means all. I do...
Dec 29th
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Dec 28th
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No Way. →
Now if only there was a newyorkercomics.tumblr.com. I’d settle for esquirecomics.tumblr.com.
Dec 28th
Goddamn y’all, I’m getting so good at customizing my new secret Tumblrs no one has links to yet. I almost don’t want to start posting in them they’re so pretty.
Dec 28th
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Public Service Announcement.
If you were holding off on reading my 2010 In The Rearview series of posts until they’d all been collected on one long, poorly-formatted, Flash-overloaded page, you’re in luck!
Dec 28th
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Dec 27th
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Sentence cut for space, presented without context:
I don’t think my most forgiving friend could accuse me of having good taste; let’s call it eccentric taste and leave it at that.
Dec 27th
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Dec 27th
thisisthatverymab: Dear Jimmy Wales, Your face and creepy blue-gray eyes are freaking me out! Stop with the “messages” and weird you-gazing-off-into-the-distance photos a.s.a.p. or I’m deleting Wikipedia from my home page tab list. Sincerely, Lindsey  Co-sign co-sign co-sign.
Dec 27th
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Dec 27th
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