January 2011
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“I worked with a guy for three years and never knew his name. Best friend I ever...”
– Ron Swanson
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Holden Caulfield’s Goddam War →
As army sergeant J. D. Salinger hit the beach on D-day, drank with Hemingway in newly liberated Paris, and marched into concentration camps, the hero of The Catcher in the Rye was with him. In an adaptation from his Salinger biography, the author reveals how the war changed both Holden Caulfield and his creator.
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THEY JUST SEEM A LITTLE WEIRD
Don’t worry, I’m not gonna go 10 Things I Hate About the American version of Skins on you here — mostly because I haven’t seen it. But apparently the ratings have been good for MTV so in all likelihood there’s gonna be strong demand for gritty realistic portraits of kids today™ so I feel this is my moment to step in and hereby pitch my super promising script ideas to the...
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Village Voice: The 20 Best Nicknames in the Big... →
joecoscarelli:
In a rush, as many have noted, I underrated “Tony Bagels.” I apologize.
Registering ‘Junior Lollipops’ on Bandcamp as we speak.
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Taste Has Never Met Shame: I Love You, Conor... →
Particularly misguided piece at the Awl today.
Seven or eight years ago, when I wasn’t yet old enough to feel embarrassed about it, I saw Conor Oberst play at a bar downtown.
A sentence in and the groaning has already started. But let’s hear it first..
Sometimes I think there ought to be a coat of arms for all of us who listen to Oberst’s band Bright Eyes past the age of...
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Total Eclipse of the Art: The Rise of Art News and... →
A simple logic governs this proliferation of “art news”: Readers care a lot more about reporting on the art world than they do about reviews of art. By whatever metric you use — Web traffic, reader feedback, or just percentage of the collective brain taken up — people are more inflamed by the latest institutional scandal or art-related celebrity sighting than they are by quaint,...
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Rawktumblr: The incredibly obvious things about... →
rawkblog:
Lady Gaga has over a billion YouTube views. Justin Bieber has over 400 million for a single video. Thanks to a generation weaned on low quality MP3s — including the files initially perpetuated by iTunes — today’s teens are more than happy to listen to music on demand, endlessly, on YouTube, a far…
Cannot stress the YouTube factor enough. I try my best with my little sister but...
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