June 2012
May 2012
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River City Extension Is Streaming →
cooldadmusic:
Support local music. And support Paste Magazine for hosting the stream.
I was wondering when these guys would show up again.
I spent summer 2010 in Washington, DC and their 2010 album The Unmistakable Man was, with For Whom the Bell Tolls and the first four seasons of Bones, a defining bit of ephemera. The first week I was in the city, sleeves rolled up, strutting...
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Ta-Nehisi Coates, on Dharun Ravi’s attempt at an apology:
I have long thought of “racism without racists” as merely the product of the color-line. But it’s also the result of the American—and perhaps even the human—inability to admit fault. No one wants to be wrong. It is a great failing, not simply of morality and honor, but of imagination. Being wrong is...
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Whence Man Man?
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“Pappy could have directed another picture, and a damned good one. But they said...”
– John Wayne, on John Ford.
(Via Ebert)
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“We understand, then, do we not?
What I promis’d without mentioning it, have...”
– Walt Whitman, “Crossing Brooklyn Ferry.”
(Thanks D+E)
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The only thing to do now, I guess, is take my diploma and run.
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“21 FIFTH AVENUE,
November 21, 1905
DEAR SIR:
I am greatly troubled by what...”
– Mark Twain’s response to Asa Don Dickson, of the Brooklyn Public Library, who was distressed that the library’s superintendent, “an enthusiastic young woman,” had removed Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer from the children’s section.
(via Letter of Note)
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Last college class let out an hour and a half ago.
What now?
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lilscones replied to your photo: Not ok.
are you not 5’9”/5’10”?
No. I’m just not ready to have the cap and gown.
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…what?
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When I woke up this morning to go to the Zen Mountain Monastery, less than two hours after finishing the last essay I will ever write as an undergraduate, I did not expect that I would return home with a smoked trout given to me by a Lithuanian woman.
