February 2011
41 posts
January 2011
45 posts
Trillion-dollar lawsuit claims P. Diddy is... →
The New Inquiry: Confessions of a Mass Man →
danielleleduc:
thenewinquiry:
“La Manifestation,” Felix Valloton (1948)
“I worry that my fake ideas don’t even have time to reach the words stage, but remain a mere inarticulate drive to consume. In my media intake, momentum has replaced thinking.”
By Rob Horning
When I was a student, I had a deeply ambivalent…
It’s simply a problem of too much choice - easily tackled by voluntarily...
Drugs DO make you cool. →
Goodbye to All That - Teddy Barrow Reflects on the... →
In celebration of my 500th post and own 151 fueled idiocy this weekend, a story about a bar.
Adaptive advantages and disadvantages of stress →
James Franco wants to direct Blood Meridian →
Coachella looks so good this year that it is... →
Amy Chua Is a Wimp →
Deborah Solomon Interviews Das Racist →
I love New York Times pieces dealing with trends, emerging artists… really, upcoming anything for anyone under forty. They always come across like anthropology papers on a party the author didn’t get invited to, but with more outdated colloquialisms.
WatchPanda Bear - Atiba Song
Named for Atiba Jefferson
Tower of Sleep: “Yes, online petitions and “like”... →
towerofsleep:
“Yes, online petitions and “like” buttons do not work to bring about social change. Everyone has figured that out and I really do not see anyone substantive on the cyber-utopian side arguing that they are that important. I believe this has become is a convenient strawman allowing the literati…
Tower of Sleep: Altered Zones is invariably called... →
towerofsleep:
Altered Zones is invariably called Pitchfork’s “sister site,” but the missing word here is “younger”—there’s an age difference large enough to be considered generational, maybe even epochal. Pitchfork thrived through adapting the print-music magazine to the Internet; its mindset still belongs to…
danielleleduc:
“Posted by: Greylurk | 12/30/10 | 1:43 pm | My response to this is: today’s socially awkward youth is busy forging the next generation’s nerd/geek/otaku culture. It’s an age dependent thing. Those “code words” and “secret languages” that Patton laments losing didn’t vanish. He just out grew them. He can’t see them any more because he’s not a part of them (thus the term “Secret...
"Homosexuality and Skate Culture" ... a regular... →
I think this is kind of a lazy attempt to address a real problem in skate culture.
A Discussion with Jason Dill About a Photo That... →
Tears are a turnoff: Science! →
I’m making an effort to make my tumblr less purposefully idiotic this year. I expect that I will lose followers.
