August 2008
“The Dayton Family is known for their gritty, no nonsense crime tales of ghetto...”
– The Dayton Family
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“Even with the fundamentals teed-up and the stars smiling, winning the White...”
– Democrats, Snap Out of It
The Meaning Box by Fred Muratori
Remove the lid — and nothing. While we were dreaming or debating, it escaped. Its damp scent lingers in the air.
What now? The box looks bigger in sunlight, and bottomless even emptier with each minute, an accelerating vacuum.
What could we gather to fill it? Not the churning matter of stars, not our own misunderstood lives. What can be done beyond begin?
Here — a eucalyptus branch,...
“I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list”
– Susan Sontag
“For example, if you were to present a white 19 year old with the choice of...”
– #105 Unpaid Internships « Stuff White People Like
“The Daily Show” resonates not only because it is wickedly funny but also because...”
– Is Jon Stewart the Most Trusted Man in America?
“That’s how these things work. The practice of making contemporary art is...”
– One Day, One Night, Saturday’s Alright | The Rake Magazine
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by Claude Closky
“Phelps kick starts his day and his metabolism with three fried-egg sandwiches,...”
– The Michael Phelps diet
Far From War Zone, Georgia Edges Russia on the... →
The Georgian women’s beach volleyball team (consisting of two Brazillians) beats the Russians.
The Russia/Georgia conflict in three sentences
squashed:
After Georgia broke away from Russia, South Ossetia and another province tried to break away from Georgia, succeeding autonomy-wise but failing map-wise. As Georgia cozied up to the United States, Russia cozied up to South Ossetia, deploying “peace-keepers” and distributing Russian passports like candy. After Georgia decided to crush South Ossetia and its rebels into submission, Russia...
What We Want by Linda Pastan
What we want is never simple. We move among the things we thought we wanted: a face, a room, an open book and these things bear our names— now they want us. But what we want appears in dreams, wearing disguises. We fall past, holding out our arms and in the morning our arms ache. We don’t remember the dream, but the dream remembers us. It is there all day as an animal is there under...
The Museum of Jurassic Tehnology →
“Like a coat of two colors, the Museum serves dual functions. On the one hand the Museum provides the academic community with a specialized repository of relics and artifacts from the Lower Jurassic, with an emphasis on those that demonstrate unusual or curious technological qualities. On the other hand the Museum serves the general public by providing the visitor a hands-on experience of...
“We’ve reached a point in our civilization where counterculture has mutated into...”
– Hipster: The Dead End of Western Civilization
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