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“But what should our pursuit of innovation actually accomplish? By one...”
– Jon Gertner, Innovation and the Bell Labs Miracle (via rachelmercer)
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Sauna - “Glitter Party”
Imaginez que les B-52’s aient rajeuni de 35 ans au bas mot, qu’ils aient copulé avec Beat Happening, qu’il soient devenus plus nerd que queer, et qu’ils se soient relocalisés à Denver. Ou plutôt, regardez le clip de Sauna, ce sera plus simple.
Imagine the young bastard offspring of the B-52’s and Beat Happening relocated in Denver. Or keep your...
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Being Elmo (2011)
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Quite possibly the most interesting, engaging documentary I’ve seen in a long while. This is the story of Kevin Clash, also known as “the guy who plays Elmo.” He started in his parents backyard at age 10; mesmerized by puppet shows he saw on television.
He started sewing his own puppets at a young age, performed puppet shows for the neighborhood and toured the Baltimore...
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Today
Brunch: Gluten-free Lättyjä (Finnish Crepes) with butter and powdered sugar. I meant to drink tea, but by the time I got down to business…I just had a bottle of draught head style vanilla cream soda.
Tonight, I’ll make Blackened Shrimp with Kale on Jasmine Rice with baked sweet potatoes. All I have left to do is bake yams and make the shrimp. Rice is done in the cooker and kale is...
“There was something immodest about her modesty: it announced itself.”
– Chimamandangozi Adichie, “Ceiling” (via thelifeguardlibrarian)
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The Rook (Daniel O'Malley)
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Ok, so I can’t recall the last book review I wrote here but I’m trying to stem the tide. In any case, this book is about a character named Myfanwy who awakens to find out she’s inhabiting the body of someone else who has left her notes and she has to retrace all of these steps to her past memories to figure out how she got where she is.
A lot of the reviews basically call it...
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“Instead, we have a 23-year-old kid who dunks, keeps the ball for himself in...”
– A Question of Identity (via Grantland)
A very, very good piece.
(via heysportsblog)
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Drive (2011)
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Ok, so full admission. I’m a pretty big stan for Carey Mulligan. Like, There aren’t even words. That being said, this flick is a dark action movie that doesn’t really sell itself out from. Gosling is methodical, the language is halting and everything about it down to the soundtrack is pretty arresting. Her character and Ryan Gosling’s find themselves living a few doors down...
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Gluten free adventures
I was going to make gluten-free cupcakes. Since you know, I always do that. But decided instead to soup myself up to make crepes AND scones instead. Following the white chocolate brownie cupcake disaster of a week ago, I’m not especially jazzed for more failure but given my consistent win-streak before that, I need to just get on with it.
I’m still kicking around gluten-free blogging. Not a lot...
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A gluten pill that works →
So I talked to one of the girls from camp who was celiac before I knew I was too. Anyway, I find out about my affilication post-camp and I got in touch because I recalled her taking some kind of pill if she’d unintentionally consumed gluten (aka, decided to have a cookie on the days when we’d get them at our table occasionally.)
Anyway, one of the ones she suggested turned out to be...
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WatchBlack and Jewish
Oh goodness. Because I missed this during all of the black and yellow parodies last year.
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“The beautiful thing about writing is it has no real respect for credentialism....”
– Ta-Nehisi Coates (via The Atlantic)
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“When someone starts a conversation with me on Facebook, in public, I’m...”
– My Facebook Angst (via Salon)
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Can a Font Help a City Make a Comeback? →
Designers in Chattanooga, Tennessee have distilled the city’s burgeoning creative spirit into a typeface.
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Albums of note - Part 1
It can be hard to remember what albums I liked back in January when November rolls around, so periodic notations help me remember. I’ve heard some new stuff, but these are the albums I think I’ll be listening to all year.
So far, the year has started off nicely. The first few are absolute keepers…I’m just getting acquainted witht this new Heartless Bastards, so happy to have new stuff from...
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“when coauthors were closer together, their papers tended to be of significantly...”
– Group sync « Mind Hacks (via slantback)
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Authenticity in the hinterland
One of the (many) frustrating things about rural life is how one deals with matters of race. I tend to handle such things with a matter of deft ignorance, because I think the overwhelming majority of folks are too ignorant to have conversations about it and I’ve retired from the game of being the black guy in meetings trying to educate you on what you should’ve been taught even if it’s not your...
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WatchJoanna Newsom & Robin Pecknold on Portlandia.
I’m going to sue you guys…
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WatchFiona Apple - Not About Love
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“I can hope, I can daydream, but certainly think that the chances of me being...”
– writer Donald Hall on NPR’s Fresh Air (via forwhenifeellikesharing)
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On Time Well Spent, Pt. 1
I tend to personalize things a bit too much. I can’t put a finger on why that started, but as I notice I have to remind myself that it’s not always about you. One of the things I underestimated about being (back) in the hinterland was how much I’d yearn to have connections with real people more regularly.
It’s not to say there aren’t interesting people floating...