January 2012
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My farewell to 2011 begins with a double feature at Tara. “Shame” was good. Wonderful directing, and I finally see what all the fuss about Fassy is about. AND this was the first time I ever didn’t find Carey Mulligan to be a nausea-inducing manic pixie twit, surprisingly. But the whole your-sister-attempted-suicide-because-you’re-promiscuous twist at the end was contrived...
December 2011
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The Year in Social Media
pewinternet:
Appropriately timed, our director Lee Rainie and New York Times staff writer Jennifer Preston discussed how social media has transformed over the year (on Minnesota Public Radio). Listen to the full discussion here.
Have you had a personal transformation because of social media over the last year? Do you use it as your main source of news gathering or perhaps to assess news? Or do...
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Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words...
– Roland Barthes, A Lover’s Discourse
I’m feeling very writerly now…
R. Kelly’s Foreclosed Home is on the Market →
gdolboys:
How many closets?
And in how many of them has he at one point or another been trapped?
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I don’t fully get the appeal of Lana Del Rey. Isn’t she just emo music for the era of Lady Gaga?
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Realization: Deleting all the old, embarrassing FB posts on your wall from whenever ago to ensure that potential employers/dates/friends/human-beings-with-whom-you-interact won’t easily discover the facts hidden behind them is like the modern day equivalent of Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind for our teched out world. Sure, it’s inverted (you’re stopping people from knowing...
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That awkward moment when someone you became FB...
Oh, Facebook/its users. Gotta love it/them.
Is the She & Him Christmas album real?
I do not believe.
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WHOA, THIS IS THE DARKEST MUSICAL I'VE EVER...
Sabrina attempts suicide?!
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How the Internet is Ruining Everything -... →
futuramb:
“Newspapers, encyclopedias, they are just gone, at the touch of a hyperlink,” Mr. Weinberger said. The institutions of “education and politics – they’ll just shatter. How did they get to be so fragile?” With the pained glee of a scientist discovering very bad news, he added, “knowledge for my generation was at the center of the human quest. It is going the way of the recording industry....
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Dating Sucks
I’d like to think that I handle its suckiness in same vein as Rooney Mara in The Social Network, but I’m probably more like Cameron Diaz in Vanilla Sky.