April 2012
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I have an urge to acknowledge this.
When I don’t know something, I gather information. I watch for signs, and in my head I plot data points all day long. I am silent until a trend materializes, and then I speak.  My contemporary cliché of choice is a functional relationship that was never defined as one, and my timeline is graduation, which is two weeks away. Neither of us has said anything. Sometimes I think that no one...
Apr 30th
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Life is kind of lame because no one will ever pay me to make audio art pieces (Radiolab, I’m looking at you/but really). Also someone listened to this and told me that I love my music beds too much, and my eloquent rebuttal is: but the music is so pretty. “Choose Your Own” How much control do we actually have — over our relationships, our habits, our lives? “Choose...
Apr 29th
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Apr 28th
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“Racism is like a wily little bacterium. It doesn’t just roll over and die...”
– Lindy West (“A Complete Guide to ‘Hipster Racism’,” Jezebel)
Apr 26th
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Apr 22nd
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Apr 21st
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Apr 20th
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“Nearly a million prisoners are now making office furniture, working in call...”
– Sweatshop labor is back with a vengeance.  (via motherjones) I went to hear Angela Davis speak on campus at Duke today. Yay, prison-industrial complex.
Apr 19th
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Apr 19th
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“My mom subscribes to Cultural Bucket Brigade Theory, which is to say, every...”
– Jeff Yang (“The Real Reason Why Asian Americans Are Outmarrying Less,” WSJ)
Apr 19th
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Apr 18th
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Apr 17th
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Apr 16th
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Apr 16th
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"You think this is a great party?! This cake has...
Oh, Kevin. Late-night Office does the soul some good. 
Apr 16th
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Apr 14th
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Apr 14th
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ListenThis song. This album. All day every day.
Apr 11th
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Apr 11th
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Apr 11th
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heartworm
dictionaryofobscuresorrows: n. a relationship or friendship that you can’t get out of your head, which you thought had faded long ago but is still somehow alive and unfinished, like an abandoned campsite whose smoldering embers still have the power to start a forest fire.
Apr 10th
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Apr 10th
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Problematize
verb  WORD NOTE problematize The blame for this awful neologism lies with academia, where the word serves no apparent purpose except to demonstrate one’s mastery of obscurantist jargon. Some random titles from the Internet: “Problematizing Formalism: A Double-Cross of the Genre Boundaries”; “Problematizing reifications and naturalizations out of focus… “;...
Apr 9th
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Apr 9th
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“It is tragic and sad and chaotic and lovely. All life is the same, as citizens...”
– David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest (via honeyforthehomeless)
Apr 9th
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Apr 9th
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Apr 9th
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Apr 7th
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Apr 7th
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Apr 7th
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“Birth of a Book: a tour of Smith Settle’s handmade bookbinding process” | The Telegraph This makes my inner luddite really happy.
Apr 5th
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How Investing Turns Nice People Into Psychopaths |... →
As if anyone had a doubt.
Apr 4th
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Apr 4th
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“A rough sound was polished until it became a smoother sound, which was polished...”
– Mark Strand (“The Everyday Enchantment of Music”)
Apr 1st
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