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“Since at least the late ’80s of Madonna and N.W.A., [MTV] has been telling...”
– Slate’s Troy Patterson in his review of True Life: I’m Occupying Wall Street reviewed: MTV visits Zuccotti Park
September 2011
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June 2011
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A gif recreation of today's Sulaimon Brown...
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Photo by Darrow Montgomery.
May 2011
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WatchIs the Cults album out yet? No?. Fine I guess this will tide me over for a little while.
Hey! I didn’t get to post this earlier,...
WatchI ran out of my right after Obama finished speaking. When I got down to the Metro platform, there were already about 50 American University kids there waiting for the train. When the train arrived, the students all began to cheer in a way that nobody has ever cheered for a Metro train.
Down at the station near the White House, there was a guy in the Caps jersey, apparently not understanding...
April 2011
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“The book has become a little bit mysterious to me. I feel like I need to go back...”
– Jennifer Egan on Winning the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction - Speakeasy - WSJ (via housingworksbookstore)
March 2011
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Why I (haven't) canceled my eMusic subscription...
crumbler:
Unfortunately, eMusic couldn’t leave well enough alone. Since it was founded in 1998, its various owners had courted the major labels in hopes of bringing mainstream pop, rock and country acts into their catalogs — and with them, hundreds of thousands of new subscribers. A couple years ago, some of the majors relented and joined the service — but for users there was a caveat. Namely,...
Words can’t express how much I need that...
February 2011
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Unified Theory of Cute Girls on Buses
The thing about taking a bus anywhere is that it is as best an acceptable experience, and at worst a miserable experience.
I’ve taken several of the cheap bus lines between D.C. and New York over the past few years, and I’ve learned a few things in that time. And the most important thing is to focus on something that will break you allow you to forget that you are on a bus that has...
“As we drove, the young captain sitting next to me grinned as he told me of his...”
– Foreign Policy managing editor Blake Houshnell was detained in Cairo. Overall his experience wasn’t so bad, but that wasn’t the norm for other journalists who have been detained.
January 2011
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