February 2012
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January 2012
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Linda Pastan, "Ethics"
In ethics class so many years ago
our teacher asked this question every fall:
if there were a fire in a museum
which would you save, a Rembrandt painting
or an old woman who hadn’t many
years left anyhow? Restless on hard chairs
caring little for pictures or old age
we’d opt one year for life, the next for art
and always half-heartedly. Sometimes
the woman borrowed my...
November 2011
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BSLBT > Zoom Focus 2011 > "The End" →
“Starting in the 1980’s, drama ‘The End’ follows 4 Deaf children over 60 years. After the introduction of a treatment aimed at eradicating deafness, the very survival of Deaf language and culture is at stake. Featuring stunning visual effects and an ensemble cast, ‘The End’ is a thought-provoking alternative vision of the future.”
This sounds all very...
October 2011
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Blackboards in Porn: #8 →
“The biggest error, however, is that each stave has only four lines instead of five. This would make it very difficult for the students to know which notes to play. Reading from the bottom, the first notes would be B A G A | B B B, which sounds correct. But reading from the top, the notes would be D C B C | D D D, which sounds wrong as there is only a semitone between the second and third...
September 2011
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“It puzzles me how many people still believe ‘friendship’ or at least bonhomie...”
– Grace Dent, How to Leave Twitter (via pitcherplant)
August 2011
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July 2011
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June 2011
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and it is terribly good to carry water and chop wood
streaked with soot, heavy-booted and wild-eyed
as I crash through the rafters
and the ropes and the pulleys trail after
and the holiest belfry burns sky-high
and then the slow lip of fire moves across the prairie with precision
while, somewhere, with your pliers and glue you make your first incision
and in a moment of almost unbearable...
May 2011
10 posts
Watchtwentyfourbit:
Bon Iver Covers Raitt, Hathaway on Fallon
Rather than perform LP2’s first single, “Calgary,” which most have heard a few times by now, Bon Iver’s Justin Vernon mixed it up for Late Night with Jimmy Fallon tonight by unleashing that new tune’s unlikely B-side: a cover of 1991 Bonnie Raitt hit “I Can’t Make You Love Me,” garnished by a dash of her 1989 single “Nick of Time.” What’s...
“Because here’s the thing about realizing you’re into girls. Hardly anyone I know...”
– Heather Hogan (via cathrin3)
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April 2011
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“What the wider world sometimes fails to realize is how lonely it can be to turn...”
– Why so blue, pander bear? (via iamingrid)
March 2011
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“And, Emily - I saw you last night by the river
I dreamed you were skipping little stones across the surface of the water
Frowning at the angle where they were lost, and slipped under forever
In a mud cloud, mica-spangled, like the sky’d been breathing on a mirror
Anyhow - I sat by your side, by the water
You taught me the names of the stars overhead that I wrote down in my...
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February 2011
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Dear people on Tumblr who are a fan of certain TV...
Did you know that there are people in other parts of the world who love those shows as well? It’s true! (Kudos, US entertainment industry. You rule.) And can you maybe imagine that seeing the newest episode laid out in its entirety (in screencaps, gifs and quotes) on their dashboard before they even had a chance to watch the first two seconds might bum them out a little bit? Even if...
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