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Short Attention Span Theater

Short Attention Span Theater: In advertising, our craving for novelty and interruption, and our drive to find patterns and make sense of it all, are lassoed together in the Costco corral. Billboards ...

18 h ago

5/24/12 Facebook Video

ourcoldsummers: If you take a peek at the new product ad/ demo video for the Facebook Camera App, you’ll see some footage I recently shot during a trip to Big Sur with friends: Facebook Camera App Vi...

5 days ago

I Will Show You Arcade Fire in a Handful of Dust

I Will Show You Arcade Fire in a Handful of Dust: Eliot would not have loved pop music but pop music loves Eliot. Ninety years after the publication of The Waste Land, he remains the lodestar poet fo...

6 days ago

(In response to Grizzly Bear’s Blackberry Jam song)It...

(In response to Grizzly Bear’s Blackberry Jam song) It Should Come on a Scone by Nicki Minaj Bitches ain’t serious, man these bitches delirious All these bitches inferiors, I just pimp my interiors I...

23 may 12

thenewinquiry:Coa chella. Tupac. Hologram. Taken apart, none...

thenewinquiry: Coachella. Tupac. Hologram. Taken apart, none of these things are new, or even revolutionary. But something fascinating happened after the debut of the Tupac hologram (henceforth: Holo...

22 may 12

Grizzly Bear :: Blackcurrant Jam

Grizzly Bear :: Blackcurrant Jam

19 may 12

elizabethacason:A video* from my five days in San Francisco....

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17 may 12

Things I Have Frantically Googled Recently According to My Phones Search History

Binking Bunny Videos My roommate’s bunny does this crazy Gene Kelly heel-clicking leap. We thought he was having a stroke. It turns out it is just a common expression of an ecstatic rabbit call...

16 may 12

backatown:Restaur ant de la Renaissance, 1904, painted by...

backatown: Restaurant de la Renaissance, 1904, painted by William Woodward. Looking down Chartres, note the St. Louis Cathedral in the background. Via the HNOC.

08 may 12

Birthday Jams1st row: Piñata doppelganger, cataloging the...

Birthday Jams 1st row: Piñata doppelganger, cataloging the spoils 2nd row: Big Sur coast, picking oranges for mimosas, Ewok village 3rd row: Friends helping friends make cheez-itz, HOMEMADE CHEEZ-ITZ...

01 may 12

Birthday Ritual: Bareknuckle Piñata Boxing

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01 may 12

Teach the Books, Touch the Heart

Teach the Books, Touch the Heart: We’d just finished John Steinbeck’s “Of Mice and Men.” When we read the end together out loud in class, my toughest boy, a star basketball player, wept a little, and...

22 apr 12

Photo

22 apr 12

In Defense of Unduplicable Moments

We’re not here to capture an image, we’re here to maintain one. Every photograph reinforces the aura. Can you feel it? An accumulation of nameless energies.--Don DeLillo, from White Noise...

21 apr 12

From Tom & Lorenzo’s Mad Style:In the episode where...

From Tom & Lorenzo’s Mad Style: In the episode where Joan finally throws her husband out, she wears a dress deliberately meant to evoke the first time she realized he wasn’t what she bargained for. N...

20 apr 12

"We ate well and cheaply and drank well and cheaply and slept well and warm together and loved ...

“We ate well and cheaply and drank well and cheaply and slept well and warm together and loved each other.” - Ernest Hemingway, from A Moveable Feast

16 apr 12

James Thurber on Exclamation Marks

James Thurber on Exclamation Marks: Don’t use an exclamation mark in a moment of anger. If you insert one in a fit of temper, lay aside the letter until morning. You will be surprised how silly it wi...

16 apr 12

The Tension of Stacked Parentheses

The Tension of Stacked Parentheses: There are no precise rules about punctuation (Fowler lays out some general advice (as best he can under the complex circumstances of English prose (he points out, ...

16 apr 12

Clockwise from top left:1) House by the Railroad by Dennis...

Clockwise from top left: 1) House by the Railroad by Dennis Hopper (1925) 2) Christina’s World by Andrew Wyeth (1948) 3) Film still from Giant (1956) 4) Film still from Days of Heaven (1978)

11 apr 12

Exsultate, Jubilate

Exsultate, Jubilate: By Elizabeth Bachner In life people drift more, there’s less closure, there’s less follow-up, there’s even more murkiness — which is a lot of murkiness. Novels have a terrible in...

10 apr 12

millionsmillions: From The Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach:For...

millionsmillions: From The Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach: For Schwartz this formed the paradox at the heart of baseball, or football, or any other sport. You loved it because you considered it an a...

06 apr 12

Required Reading

Will Oldham Speaks (T Magazine) “I’ve always loved ‘Bat out of Hell.’ Have you ever had a motorcycle wreck? Has Meat Loaf? I don’t think so.” The Riches of White Trash (The Millions) I’ve trav...

06 apr 12

Photo by Anne ParkerSummer goals indeed:swimming in...

Photo by Anne Parker Summer goals indeed: swimming in rivers drinking out of mugs while camping

04 apr 12

Endorsements

[thumbing through slick pamphlet from new high school academy down the road] Me: Wait. Hold up. They have an endorsement from Burt Bacharach?! Who they have categorized as “Internationally-Este...

03 apr 12

The Metaphysics of Timekeeping

Compare an afternoon class to a morning one. Morning classes, in the promising glow of a new dawn, are for positions and positionings, eyebrows raised, heads shaken, eyes rolled, splashy pop referenc...

01 apr 12

It may be hard to glean from these pictures that they were all...

It may be hard to glean from these pictures that they were all taken in New York. I guess I am nothing if not predicable in my love for: dogs, trees, corner-facing doors, and train tracks that go now...

24 mar 12

File under: formative crushes

File under: formative crushes

23 mar 12

Is Silence Going Extinct?

Is Silence Going Extinct?: As children, our grandparents could hope to swim in a lake or lie in a meadow for whole afternoons without hearing a motorboat, car or plane; today the engineless hour is a...

20 mar 12

"Perhaps in the world’s destruction it would be possible at last to see how it was made. Oceans...

““Perhaps in the world’s destruction it would be possible at last to see how it was made. Oceans, mountains. The ponderous counterspectacle of things ceasing to be. The sweeping waste, hydroptic and ...

18 mar 12

famous dogs of tumblr dot tumblr dot com

famous dogs of tumblr dot tumblr dot com

16 mar 12

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