September 2010
38 posts
Choire is now deliberately linking to stories that... →
It’s a goal. The trick is to hit him when he least expects it. Also sometimes I disguise such links. “Here’s a great story about beer…” and when you click through, it’s about beer, alright! Beer that kills babies. Unemployed babies. With cancer.
This is how I keep my days sunny.
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The Last Thing He Said
Choire Sicha: DON'T CHAT AND DRIVE
David Cho: Eh
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“Two days before the march, as I’d wondered what to wear, I was suddenly...”
– Tom Scocca, “Armies of the Right,” the New York Observer, September 19, 2005.
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“Breakfast is extremely important to some people, who firmly believe that a...”
– Joy Williams
"When do the emergency powers cease?"
aatombomb:
Since September 11, 2001, the U.S. government has created or reconfigured at least 263 organizations to tackle some aspect of the war on terror. The amount of money spent on intelligence has risen by 250 percent, to $75 billion (and that’s the public number, which is a gross underestimate). That’s more than the rest of the world spends put together. Thirty-three new building...
Mad Men Power Rankings, Episode 407: "The...
marklisanti:
[Production Note: We all know Monday was a national holiday. Let’s not dwell on the work none of us were doing that day. Then Tuesday was, not to put too fine a point on it, a bitch. Sunday night was a long, long time ago, and our notes are famously spotty, so the events discussed here may have actually taken place in any Season Four episode. As of this writing, Harry Crane...
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“Miami was for example the only American city I had ever visited in which it was...”
– Joan Didion, Miami, 1987.
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Brief Notes Towards An Hour-Long Mariah Carey...
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meltzer:
The Secret Life of the American Teenage Rock Star: A review of Kristin Hersh’s memoir, Rat Girl.
I loved it so much. Everyone should read this book. Even if you think you don’t care about the Throwing Muses. Or teen pregnancy. Or bipolar disorder. Or adolescent girls.
YES YES YES.