February 2011
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“People loved @MayorEmanuel first and foremost because it was funny. Sure, there...”
– Revealing the Man Behind @MayorEmanuel - Alexis Madrigal - Technology - The Atlantic
Man, this whole story <3
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“Look, it’s a love story about two guys in a flat. Colin Firth swears a lot in a...”
– An internet comment about “The King’s Speech”, and probably the finest review I’ve read of this thoroughly mediocre and hackneyed film. I’m only being that harsh due to the ridiculous critical and popular love it’s receiving, obviously, but come on people! (via phillipreeves)
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“The use of the track Ball & Biscuit by The White Stripes to score the...”
– Deconstructing The Social Network (via tobwaylan)
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"Lit" |lit| past and past participle of light (1),...
I am disproportionately annoyed by the fact that tumblr’s trackable tag for literature falls under the heading of “LIT”.
Can’t we use the full word instead? If that’s too long, wouldn’t “books” do?
Forgive me if I exaggerate, you know us “uni” types.
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A young man is currently walking up and down my street, singing “A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall”
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@MayorEmanuel's Finest Twitter Hour →
soupsoup:
Yesterday, however, @MayorEmanuel outdid himself. He wrote an extended, meandering narrative of the day before the primary that took the whole parallel Rahm Emanuel thing to a different emotional, comic, cultural place entirely. It even features a great cameo by friend of the Snark Alexis Madrigal. The story is twisting, densely referential, far-ranging — and surprisingly, rather...
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“And here, just to lock our minds on to the brain of truly eccentric desire, is a...”
– The excellent Robert Fisk on the “sub-Shakespearean farce” of Gaddafi’s life and hopefully approaching demise - via The Independent
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findingsherlock-deactivated2012 asked: Alright, after your last post, I must know more about you. Are your a prof? a secondary school teacher? someone who kidnaps random strangers in order to teach them things?
Tell me more about you, and I mean that in the most non-creepy way I can considering I'm on the internet and we are strangers.
Right. Awkward exit stage left.
Tell me more about you, and I mean that in the most non-creepy way I can considering I'm on the internet and we are strangers.
Right. Awkward exit stage left.
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This land is my land « me and GiorgioP on... →
Un post delirante a quattro mani in cui e GiorgioP ci siamo immaginati che cosa sarà passato per la testa di PJ Harvey quando si è ritirata nel Devon a mettere insieme Let England Shake, e Bruce Springsteen quando è andato in isolamento volontario con un four-track e oplà ha tirato fuori Nebraska.
Presto, chiamate il Centro d’Igiene Mentale!
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Man shot dead in Latvian cinema for eating popcorn... →
“Latest incidence of cinema rage occurred during a screening of Black Swan in Riga”
1. Obligatory punch-line: “the swan made me do it”?
2. This is not ‘nam. This is bowling cinema. There are rules. Check out the official Cinema Code of Conduct.
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Clear eyes, full hearts, can't lose!
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'Moby-Dick' Fans: Meet the Real Pequod →
tragos:
Yep. Hell hath no fury like a sperm whale scorned.
It was inspiration for Melville’s Moby-Dick: the ill-fated Nantucket whaler, the Essex, was crushed and sunk in 1820 by a sperm whale in high dudgeons.
The have found the shipwreck of the next boat the crew took over, the Two Brothers, off the coast of Hawaii, and you can read about the story here.
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“Truffaut has appeared to some as an example of a dreary art-house officialdom,...”
– Truffaut: growing backwards into childhood | Film | The Guardian
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Black Swan - The Abridged Script →
phillipreeves:
or DOES SHE?
This abridged script is a WORK OF GENIUS. It’s so eminently quotable, outrageously funny, and wittily critical that I’m planning to learn it all off by heart and recite it to anyone who gets me involved in a conversation about Black Swan.
NATALIE PORTMAN Really? It’s 2010 and movies are still characterizing females as naughty or nice based on...
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“Film lovers are sick people”
– François Truffaut (allegedly.)
I must confess I can’t find the original source of this quote, and thus it’s just something I came across while searching for writings on Truffaut’s La nuit américaine (Day for Night, 1973), which I saw today in the cinema (and in French!) for the...
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“It was too frightening to be under the burden of all the insoluble questions of...”
– “Sometimes Pierre remembered stories he had heard about how soldiers at war, taking cover under enemy fire, when there is nothing to do, try to find some occupation for themselves so as to endure the danger more easily. And to Pierre all people seemed to be such soldiers, saving themselves...
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“Esattamente sottosopra rispetto alla nostra penisola, la Nuova Zelanda è la...”
– La Nuova Zelanda non è l’Australia – prima parte | No Borders Magazine
toitū he whenua, whatungarongaro he tangata:
Maori for “Land is permanent, man disappears” 