April 2012
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“I don’t like this expression “First World problems.” It is false and it is...”
– Teju Cole (quoted in “What’s Wrong with First World Problems,” The Atlantic) (via grrrlstudies)
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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...
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WatchLife 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...
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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)
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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.
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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)
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"You think this is a great party?! This cake has...
Oh, Kevin. Late-night Office does the soul some good.
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This song. This album. All day every day.
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