February 2012
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No One Has Nothing Nice to Say About the... →
“[A]n ouroboros in a wormhole” is now my favorite thing to try and say five times fast.
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OMG SANREMO MUSIC FESTIVAL
JUST HOW ATROCIOUS WILL ITALY’S ENTRY FOR EUROVISION BE? WHY DOES EVERY ENTRANT LOOK LIKE MY DAD
somesongsconsidered:
“Annie Hardly Listens Now”...
March 6-7, "Truthiness in Digital Media" Symposium →
A symposium that seeks to understand and address propaganda and misinformation in the new media ecosystem
MUST. GO.
“If the sale goes through, Philadelphia will become the first major city in the...”
– Philadelphia Newspapers Are a Target - NYTimes.com (via heathalouise)
Diamanda Galás' Statement on Whitney Houston's... →
I mourn the death of Whitney Houston, whom I adored. Her incomparable voice, which influenced almost every R&B and pop singer worldwide, her stage presence, which no one can touch, and her beauty, tough and sweet, moved me. Whitney … Whitney … was put back onstage before she was ready to perform - by the colossal pig Clive Davis - who continued his party in the same hotel...
The CBC is about to have the best yard sale ever. →
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MARGINALISM NEVER, INTERSECTIONALITY FOREVER
UPCOMING LIVE DATES (PAY ATTENTION)
throwinguptheband:
23rd February at The Marquis of Lansdowne, London 9th March at Cake Shop, NYC 11th March at Ottobar Upstairs, Baltimore 12th March at St Vitus, NYC 14th/15th/16th SXSW
Ahem. I am super-excited for this!
Last night's radio show →
Oh shit, did I not tell you guys I am on the air Mondays 7-9 PM now?
Throwing Up, “Big Love” (2012)
Happy...
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Great piece by Jonathan Bogart here about Whitney →
Also now brewing in my mind: Analysis of how publications are using the photographs from this particular concert to memorialize Whitney. So far, many publications have chosen to run this particular image, so The Atlantic’s decision to use a different image from the same performance is quite fascinating, as it communicates something wholly different.
Anthony Is Right: My Billboard "Top 40 Hits"... →
anthonyisright:
As a smattering of you have noticed, I have a crazy number of decade-centric playlists on my Spotify account with half-whimsical/half-inscrutable titles. Here’s a guide to the science - not taste, SCIENCE! - behind them, courtesy of my Billboard Top 40 Hits book. This is what kept me off the streets during my break from school last month:
Oh man, if I was not in a cubicle, I...
Mondo Salvo #49
mondosalvo:
Mixer’s block is a real thing. Don’t let anyone tell you otherwise. Of course, now it’s been so long since Mondo Salvo 48 that Lana Del Rey and Azealia Banks have both come from nowhere and become the toasts/roasts of the internet (in different ways). I’d have had both of these songs on any mix I made back in September, but in five years I’m not going to remember how long this one...
Relax, I've got this one covered.
whatisajagjaguwar:
someone somewhere is googling what a jagjaguwar looks like
— StarkNY (@StarkOnline) February 13, 2012
An open apology to the Pinterest team
spiegelman:
Judging by some of the links to pop up on my Internet the past hour or so, this fake Mitt Romney thing is starting to be about Pinterest changing the name of my parody account, and not about the fact that the leading candidate for the Republican nomination for President asked them to dilute criticism about him. This was never my intention.
Pinterest is a site suddenly hitting the...
10+ year's of work, summed up thusly
Maria Sciarrino, @mariatsciarrino, has been involved with social media for over a decade. It is an important part of her life.
— Wharton Techfast (@WhartonTechfast) February 10, 2012
Well, that explains everything
This syndrome is characterized by short stature, intellectual impairment, dental abnormalities, muscle weakness, severe hypertension by the third decade of life
So I’m pretty much at the peak of my abilities right now? Great.
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WatchI don’t know why this band popped into my head but it did and now I blogged about it, so here you go. I enjoy using the phrase “Keep It on the Download” to this day.
Baristas, Precarious Labor, and again, FU NYT
paulmdavis:
…the point to my previous post being: most of the baristas I know aren’t fucking around while they get their PhD’s or trying to supplement low-paying but “glamorous” creative careers that will probably eventually pay off. They’re high school dropouts, college dropouts, arty outcasts from blue-collar backgrounds, weirdos and queers alienated from conservative rural or Midwest...
So I hear "House" is calling it a day
Which means I need to share with you my theory on how House is a WPRB listener.
The show is based in Princeton, NJ
He plays Pussy Galore’s “Kicked Out” to freak out a patient
I mean, looking at the fucking music on this show, it’s like a WPRB setlist
He is old and weird and cranky and male, much like my prime listener demo
OK, that’s really all I got. But where...
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Is this, like, a trend?
Just got my third PR email for another music festival at a ski resort. Did these people all watch Ski Party and think, “Yeah, man!” (They could have watched Ski School or Ski Patrol, too but you get my point.)
Dear Cyclists: Don't be this guy.
caro:
It was 12:30 AM on what was either Tuesday night or Wednesday morning, depending on how you like to categorize these things. The significant other and I were driving in Brooklyn Heights (he is a New Yorker with a car, which is like a curious and rarely-encountered narwhal) and were slowly turning a corner from one one-way residential street onto another when, to our surprise, there was...
I would like to let the record show that Marcellus... →
Center for the Study of Race & Equity in Education →
Just stumbled upon this at work and I am very intrigued. I’m sure some of you might be as well.
