January 2011
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Friday reads
Top 10 Most Evil Humans
December 2010
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Thursday reads
Lights, Camera, Africa Depression Economics
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potato tacos dorados are the perfect comfort food
I’m glad I gave El Taco Riendo another shot after a disastrous enchilada several months ago.
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The Joy of Stats
via kottke.org
“Gilda got married and went away. None of us saw her anymore. There was one good...”
– I read this awhile ago and think of it often. I find it kind of strangely beautiful.
MatthewWester.com: Bill Murray talks about Gilda Radner (via incandenza)
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Lesbians And Gays Of The 1950s [VIDEO]
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I like this.
nprfreshair:
Black on White Affair...
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half-assed 2010 theater retrospective
Even the thought of doing a theater retrospective for the year is exhausting to me. I just…ran out of steam in all aspects of life, including theater-going, around October. But a large thrust of this blog-thing has been to keep track of the theater I see and books and articles I read so I can remember them when people ask me to recommend them something. I’m contemplating writing...
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via orgtheory: sociology’s most important...
Gilles Beuchamp asked: What do you think is the most important breakthrough in sociology since 2000? A few candidates: Global inequality has decreased because of economic liberalization in China and India. Global inequality is the result of cross national differences, less than domestic differences. Until the rise of China and India, global patterns of inequality have been stable since the...
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French & Saunders use the internet
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Wednesday reads
Why Do Lesbians Earn More Than Straight Women? Me Talk Presidential One Day Nerd Culture Is Thriving, Patton Oswalt Is Old The Most Valuable Properties in Monopoly Escape Route
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I lol'd
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Tuesday reads
A Tight End Happy to Have Hands of Clay Putting the Record Straight on the Lamo-Manning Chat Logs Life in the Leper Colony Unpacking My Record Collection (2000) J-School Confidential (1993) Doonan in the Doghouse Wake Up, Geek Culture. Time to Die.
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just because...
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via PUBLIC SCHOOL: decaying theatres
Theatres I was really involved in my high school’s theatre program when I lived in La Porte, Texas growing up. Ever since then I’ve had an appreciation for live theatre performances, that I think many people are growing up not knowing. Yves Marchand and Roman Meffre studied that decline in appreciation and attendance in their series, Theatres. I had seen their work before on the decline and...
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Who else totally set the DVR for this?
via youtube.com
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How I spent my Christmas vacation
I had big plans to catch up on some reading over the long Christmas weekend, but in what I can only assume was an unconscious effort to purge myself of 2010, I spent it watching the vilest crap, including: Teenage Tourette’s Camp A Serbian Film (DO NOT SEE THIS UNLESS YOU WANT YOUR SOUL RAPED) Riot on 42nd St. This Beautiful City (this was not that bad; kinda slow and melodramatic in...
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I hate people
Chandler woman, 76, experiences bullying at retirement community by Cathryn Creno - Dec. 28, 2010 12:00 AM The Arizona Republic Doris Lor says it wasn’t until she reached her 70s that she understood what it’s like to be bullied. The 76-year-old retired secretary has lived in New York, California and a couple of parts of the Valley, and said she always...
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Christmas weekend reads
Young, Male, Straight—and Anorexic How Much Did It Cost AOL to Distribute All Those CDs Back in the 1990s? Peretz In Exile Scenes From My Life in Porn A Mountain of Trouble In the Life of the Foxconn Young Workers The Worsening Journalistic Disgrace at Wired The Columbia Kid Chasing the Jersey: Why I Sleep With Athletes and Why You Should Too Deepwater Horizon’s Final Hours ...
Complaint #189
Maybe it’s the eggnog, but I can’t stop giggling at this.
smithiescomplaints:
I guess when I said “Autostraddle calendar” my mom heard “a paddle calendar” because now I get 12 months of heterosexual couples canoeing.
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I have never been so proud to be a UMN alum in all...
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Friday reads
Nascar for Gleeks “Damn Right,” I Said Have You Ever Tried to Sell a Diamond?
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"Turkey Lurkey Time" from the "Camp" soundtrack
Turkey Lurkey Time Download now or listen on posterous 08 Track 8.mp3 (7396 KB)
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Dear U of MN, Please do this.
This beats Hofstra University’s Unispan by a mile. A fun, slippery-slidey mile. In the Mathematik/Informatik building of the Technical University of Munich, Garching campus, there are two four-story parabolic slides. They’re not display art for looking at. They are for sliding. By anyone in the building. Best. College. Ever. Between this and the dog who gave birth to 17 puppies, Germany wins...
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via NYTimes: Miracle on 22nd Street
Miracle on 22nd Street Two New York City men feel a tremendous responsibility to respond properly when they mysteriously receive hundreds of letters addressed to Santa Claus at their Chelsea apartment. via video.nytimes.com
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Thursday reads
In Mexico, a Legal Breakdown Invites Brutal Justice What Good Are Harvard Law Students? The Last Resort (2003) Computers That Trade on the News The Myth of Charter Schools (Response) The Effect of Legalized Same-Sex Unions on Divorce, Marriage and STI Risk Behaviors Why Is Groupon So Important? Rules for (Republican) Radicals Sugar and Spice and Everything… Vanishing Act Student...
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Google's Chrome for a Cause campaign resulted in...
via downloadsquad.switched.com
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holy shit this would be amazing
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Playbill News: American Sexy Gets NYC Premiere at...
I’ve seen two incarnations of this play, including last year at the Guthrie Dowling Studio. It’s a good play—nice to see it’s getting an NYC showing. American Sexy Gets NYC Premiere at Flea in January By Kenneth Jones December 23, 2010 Trista Baldwin’s American Sexy, a look at American sexuality in the digital age, will get its New York City...
