December 2010
72 posts
HERE ARE MY FAVORITE 15 SONGS OF 2010
No Kanye! No Arcade Fire! No Beach House! (Though, I liked those albums.)
"Is Patton Oswalt the Heidegger of Our Time?" →
laphamsquarterly:
“Enframing means the gathering together of that setting-upon which sets upon man, i.e., challenges him forth, to reveal the real, in the mode of ordering, as standing-reserve. Enframing means that way of revealing which holds sway in the essence of modern technology and which is itself nothing technological.” (That’s Heidegger, not Oswalt, but sometimes it’s hard to tell!)
...
“Can anybody tell me exactly what a talk box is, how it works, and how it’s...”
– John Walker Lindh, “the American Taliban,” in a 1991 online post as quoted by Dave Tompkins in How to Wreck a Nice Beach (via desnoise)
This is, like, a key moment in American cultural history, somehow.
Don't Quit Your Day Job: Political Hacks' Best...
gq:
People who cover or practice politics in Washington are too busy for a lot of what makes the lives of normal people more pleasant: exercising, eating right, dressing well, having a functioning social life, among other things. They don’t get a lot of reading for fun done, or see movies (three of the five top-rated “local favorites” for Netflix viewers in DC are Frontline specials). But music...
THEORIES
Theory #1
Everyone is either a Tunnel of Love person or a Nebraska person.
Theory #2
If you are a Nebraska person you are probably insufferable.
Here's how the government is spending your money →
theweekmagazine:
According to a new report, tax payers spent $11.5 billion in 2010 to enhance zoos with poetry, honor the Greatful Dead, and subsidize the Department of Energy’s “inefficient” energy use. Here, some numbers (read the full list of ridiculous expenditures):
$175 million Amount spent by the Department of Veterans Affairs to maintain unused buildings, including an octagonal, pink...
BOOKS I READ THIS YEAR
In more or less chronological order:
White Noise by Don DeLillo
Cosmicomics by Italo Calvino
If on a winter’s night a traveler by Italo Calvino
Point Omega by Don DeLillo
White Tiger by Aravind Agra
Pictures from an Institution by Randall Jarrell
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
The Log of the S.S. The Mrs. Unguentine by Stanley Crawford
The Devil and Sherlock Holmes by...
Worst Fiction, 2010! by Steve Donoghue →
3. The Four Fingers of Death by Rick Moody – Much like the tripartite godhead, the three books that comprise our Dark Trinity of the Worst Novels of 2010 are really one novel, and yet three separate faces of cynicism. And as with most expressions of cynicism, the core quality is contempt for the audience. This kind of evil, uninformed cynicism has achieved the state of considering the reading...
But the racial sensitivity at Barbour headquarters... →
WHICH WILL WIN?
Desire to be liked by others
or
Desire to be right, always
I NEED WINTER BOOTS
Recommend me some?
People are such whiners!
You know?
Max - just read your article. Weird conspiratorial side of the web? Are you still reading the mainstream media? Don’t you know that the mainstream is owned by the massive corporations that have an interest in creating the New World Order as well as the military industrial complex. Don’t you know the Federal Reserve is a private bank making money out of thin air and charging...
STEAMPUNK
Fuck that shit.
Urls
Elspeth: good morning love
first things
check out this baller url
http: //www.theatlanticwire.com/features/view/feature/Urine-Poured-on-LGBT-Books-in-Harvard-Library-UPDATE-By-Mistake-2745
Scott: oh calm down
i literally just woke up
Elspeth: ok
well
Scott: woah
Elspeth: some appreciation please, even in your drowsiness
is required
Scott: a mistake?
Elspeth: yes
oopsies
Scott: thats insane!
Elspeth: i know
this is like one of those forwards, or, like, "cosmo confessions"
Scott: hahaha
cosmo Kramer confessions maybe
Scott: http://gawker.com/5713222/man-castrates-teen-daughters-57+year+old-boyfriend
Elspeth: now *that* is a cosmo confession
max's url beats mine
AGAIN
POTENTIAL ESSAY TOPIC
The way you rack up your friends’ exes as Facebook friends even though you were barely in touch with them when your friends were dating them.