August 2009
“Free love? As if love is anything but free!”
– Emma Goldman (via whokilled)
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Dr. John, “Right Place, Wrong Time”...
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SWSK seeks hands. Preferably small.
I consider myself a fairly streetwise girl. I’ve smelled the sickly sweet scent of crack inside a New Orleans jail cell. I’m never afraid to walk alone at night, but I know to carry my keys in my fist, ready to tear the face off a man who dares mess with me. I once emptied the urine bag of a paraplegic crackhead in my backyard without so much as a flinch. I will tell you just what kind...
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Reagan: The Great American Socialist →
“How much wealth transfer has occurred through Reagan’s policies? At least $3 trillion.”
I don’t think this country will ever recover from Reaganomics. Optimistically: by the time we do, the disastrous effects of global warming will be really kicking in.
(Link via beautifulordinaire:jhnbrssndn:azspot.)
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Terry Callier, “Blues For Marcus,” from Occasional...
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The Black Cab Sessions: Lykke Li →
Oooh this is good. (Via ourlaboroflove.)
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“We are so caught up in the myths of the best and the brightest and the self-made...”
– Malcolm Gladwell (via azspot)
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Pimp my cat
Peter emailed me this response to a Craiglist ad offering our fantastic FREE COUCH, which is accompanied by a photo of Wilkes lounging on it:
Hi, I don’t want your couch (although I’m sure it’s lovely), but I have to know- is that gorgeous cat on the couch a maine coon or norwegian forest cat? i have a tuxedo maine coon and i’ve always wanted an orange one. Yours is...
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Recipe: Plum, Feta and Fresh Mint Panini →
(Via abangupjob.)
Scrum-diddly-umptious!
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Getting to yes
Tina Fey, in an article for “O” magazine about her “aha!” moment (groooooan*), wrote:
Six years ago, I moved from Chicago to New York to work at Saturday Night Live. I packed up and was going through my things…I found an orange folder—a regular school folder—in a bookshelf…There were quotes written all over the front of it. Some of them were: “Greet everything with ‘Yes,...
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“What is it about books that make them so truly great to read? I think it’s the...”
– Gwyneth Paltrow, sort of.
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Olu Dara, “Your Lips”
Via mills, who...
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“According to news reports, the Obama administration — which seemed, over the...”
– Paul Krugman (hat tip to Nathan).
Jan has posted “a catalogue of the obstacles [to healthcare reform] from an old campaigner” that is an excellent compliment to Krugman’s piece.
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Ben Folds, “The Best Imitation of...