February 2012
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Runners-Up from our Non-Contest Contest #2
Re-imagining Ringo as a kvetchy Yiddish-speaker, here’s our final runner-up. Thanks all for participating (and we would suggest you catch up on your Downton Abbey watching for our next, post-AWP contest).
“Oy with these drums. Boom, boom, boom. Snare, snare, cymbal. It’s enough already. God forbid I should be able to hear my own thoughts. Boom, boom, crash. This is music? The man who...
Runners-Up from our Non-Contest Contest #2
Here’s another runner up;
It’s a Sold Out Night
It’s a sold out night and I’m drummin’ like a fool. It’s a sold out night and these folks don’t know I quit school. But when I get on the stage I find the cheers that I hear make me feel alright. You know I replaced Pete Best to get me money to pay the rent. And it’s worth it just to hear the screams even though they’ll can me next. ...
Runners-Up from our Non-Contest Contest #2
Here’s another runner-up;
“Man versus machine. Mensch gegen Maschine. The will to preserve one’s self is simply a consequence of Man’s will to exert his strength on the world at large. I know this. Schopenhauer’s utilitarianism is a fraud; I am not happy ergo neither is Man. I don’t think that’s right, but happiness is not a goal of Nature. Bourgeois society perpetuates the myth of...
“Yeah, well I have a sense of it now.
There’s the fact that you’re interviewing...”
– Clarissa Explains It All’s creator Mitchell Kriegman, replying to a question asked in this Splitsider interview of how he interacts with young people today “who grew up on the show.” (via millionsmillions)
Runners-Up from our Non-Contest Contest #2
We have a lot of runners-up, alright. We thought these were all great.
“I should’ve known butter with a girl like you. Lot of girls here tonight. Yeah. Yeah! Can’t see them but I can hear them. Can they hear us? Stay with Paul, locked in. Ba doom bap. Collar is itching me. I hate shaving, I do. Gotta use the gramophone, call Mo. What did she say last time? Mum wanted to take...
Runners-Up from our Non-Contest Contest #2
We’re going to put up the runners-up from our “Ringo Starr Monologue” over the course of the day.
Here’s the first;
“That’s it. That’s the way. You’ve got it. Boy do you got it. Have it. Boy do you have it. Be correct, man. In everything. But mostly this. Because you are the beat. In all its magnificence. Really, when you think about...
Millions Join Strikes Across India Demanding... →
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Enter our Art of Omission Contest! Win a free... →
Mother Jones obtains Syrian government hit list... →
producermatthew:
From Mother Jones:
A 718-page digital document obtained by Mother Jones contains names, phone numbers, neighborhoods, and alleged activities of thousands of dissidents apparently targeted by the Syrian government. Three experts asked separately by Mother Jones to examine the document—essentially a massive spreadsheet, whose contents are in Arabic—say they believe that it is...
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A review of The Cambridge Companion to Thomas... →
“Genius is of small use to a woman who does not know how to do her hair.”
– Edith Wharton, The Touchstone. Want to know what Wharton really thought about her own beauty? Read this scathing and sarcastic Roman à clef about her lover Morton Fullerton. (via laphamsquarterly)
Also, this piece from Victoria Patterson in the LARB is great if you were wondering about Wharton’s...
Kickstarter Expects To Provide More Funding To The... →
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Can there be cinema without books? →
Princess Bride/ First Year Composition
via McSweeney’s Internet Tendency:
LINES FROM THE PRINCESS BRIDE THAT DOUBLE AS COMMENTS ON FRESHMAN COMPOSITION PAPERS.
BY JENNIFER SIMONSON
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“You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.”
“At a time like this that’s all you can think to say?”
“Nonsense. You’re only saying that because no one ever has.”
“I don’t think I’m quite familiar with...
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Couple needs new home for 30,000-volume Rocky... →
aaknopf:
Two self-described bookish people with an unusual dream worked a quarter-century and amassed a 30,000-volume collection on “the land and people’s connection to the land” that could make any naturalist drool.
And they work at Tattered Cover in Denver! Find out more about their library.
Anecdotes
granta:
Extract from Ann Beattie’s new story in Exit Strategies.