July 2011
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June 2011
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Top 1 songs I'd be totally cool with never hearing...
1. Sweet Home Alabama.
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#439: A House Divided →
This American Life
Stories about people who find themselves either unexpectedly being singled out or doing the singling out. Including one story about nine public officials whose constituents are trying to throw them out of office, and another story about a man’s very physical battle with himself.
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Top 3 things I literally don't care about (as long...
Who you are.
Where you’re from.
What you did.
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Top 5 Albums of Forever and Always →
alliemyers:
Part of Summer of Bravery for me is being decisive, so lately I’ve been trying to distill the amorphous blob of “things I like” into lists and favorites. I figured my Top 5 Albums of All-Time was a good place to start, but in true indecisive fashion, I thought of the first two, couldn’t decide how to order them, debated dividing the lists by genre, then gave up. This morning, I...
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Books Just Purchased:
Sondheim on Music: Minor Details and Major Decisions - Mark Horowitz
Three Uses of the Knife: The Nature and Purpose of Drama - David Mamet
Colored Lights - John Kander
The Complete Works of Harold Pinter
Seven Basic Plots: Why We Tell Stories - Christopher Booker
Complete Stories and Poems of Edgar Allen Poe
Seeing is Forgetting the Name of the Things One Sees - Lawrence Wescheler
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…I was going to suggest to you that you serve your eggs with hollandaise...
– Mitt Romney, speaking about eggs Benedict at a campaign stop in New Hampshire.
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Top 2 Reasons Why I Just Want to Be With You
Now that you’re gone.
I can’t go on.
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Every life is in many days, day after day. We walk through ourselves, meeting...
– James Joyce, Ulysses (via proustitute)
Happy Bloomsday, all! One day I will properly read Ulysses and not just rely on Dubliners (which you should read, if you haven’t) as my sole Joyce experience….
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Bike-riding in DC:
Not un-dangerous.
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Done and/or Did:
Nails
Hurr
Everything
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Read outside. Learn guitar. Check fridge. Check...
Rinse and repeat.
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#437: Old Boys Network →
This American Life
Stories about standing up to the man—or, really, the men. Nurses at a small Texas hospital report a well-connected doctor for dangerous medical practices, and find themselves under arrest. Plus…how political operators in Chicago get to be judges.
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100 gorgeous opening lines →
There’s so much to read….