November 2010
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Playlist, Zipped →
petersheik:
Now zipped, for your convenience.
Obviously my disclaimer here is PAY ARTISTS for their music and if you download someone’s music you should, like, go find them and give them flowers on the street or food or at least some coins commensurate your ability to pay, something something lesbian collective real talk. Or you know: you hear something you like and then go buy the...
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Soundtrack for a Two-Hour Cocktail Party, for...
✓ Inside My Love, Minnie Riperton
✓ Just Friends, Charlie Parker
✓ Hot Like Fire (Aaliyah Cover), the xx
✓ Yesterday Tomorrows, Tindersticks
✓ Mambo Guajiro, Rene Touzet
✓ Hunter, Portishead
✓ Billy Jack, Curtis Mayfield
✓ Redondo Beach, Patti Smith
✓ To Know You Is to Love You, Syreeta
✓ In 4 The Kill Pon De Skream, Major Lazer & La Roux
✓ Sideshow, Calexico
✓ Tidjani Ascofare,...
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The company will also announce that it has raised $800,000 in venture capital,...
– The New York Times on Pulse growing and making the app free
I’m happy for the Pulse team. Pulse is great. But this quote, for which the blame lies more on this article’s author, is (probably unintentionally) ridiculous.
Hundreds (if not thousands) of iPhone and iPad apps are made by profitable...
When a Strobel machine has done its job properly, you can not find how the...
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Well That Was Perfectly Horrible
Some nights writing is just going to be like, I dunno, sexting with a hand-condom.
What’s worse is that this chapter ends in a little scene I KNOW I already pre-wrote and where is it? Gmail drafts? Some random Word doc that’s not appropriately filed? I even looked through my thousands of iPhone notes, which are mostly terrifying bits of notes from reporting and/or shopping. In which...
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Let's Write Some Crap Together!
I was just driving to the store to get cigarettes, which is where I get all my best thinking done. (It would be the shower of course but I only do that like every other day right now. WHO HAS TIME TO SHOWER?) And I realized that I’ve been procrastinating on this one chapter—I haven’t touched it since AUGUST—because something bad happens to one of the...
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Dave Bry: saved: post of video of four lion cubs learning to swim
Choire Sicha: ha, you're taking the New America well!
Dave Bry: what new america?
Choire Sicha: oh um nothing.
Dave Bry: i don't know anything about any...
Choire Sicha: yay lion cubs!
Dave Bry: right. yay lion cubs!
Choire Sicha: WOW LOOK AT THE LIONS!
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"In order to stop the uncontrolled growth of our...