December 2010
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So, I've just started a thing on tumblr.  →
It’s a blog dedicated to Jin Shengtan’s “33 Happy Moments,” an awesome list that was written in the mid-1600s by a poor but refined scholar from Suzhou, the city of bridges.
Dec 31st
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“And the costume – the red outfit with the lightning bolt. How many times in our...”
–  Jeff Smith, one of many interviewees in “An Oral History of CAPTAIN MARVEL: The Fawcett Years, pt. 1” on Newsarama.
Dec 30th
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“I know it sounds great, but there’s a danger: Everything we have today that’s...”
–  Patton Oswald is setting out to destroy what geek culture has become. HEY, DID YOU HEAR?
Dec 29th
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Dec 28th
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Dec 23rd
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Dec 23rd
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“The music of a well-ruled state is peaceful and joyous…that of a country...”
–  from the Li Chi or Book of Rites.
Dec 23rd
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“Perhaps the practices Jesus learned alongside Joseph in the carpentry...”
– Slate rehabilitates the image of one of my favorite saints.
Dec 23rd
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Dec 22nd
vickyj asked: What is your evil twin out doing right now?
Dec 22nd
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“The Lotus Eaters,” by Sarah Kirkland Snider with Sharah Worden and Signal. Part of a “song-cycle” called Penelope, about the woman who waited for the man of many means.
Dec 22nd
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ListenDear Winter - A spoken word piece I made exactly a...
Dec 21st
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Dylan Thomas reads “A Child’s Christmas in Wales” Just let that voice take you.
Dec 21st
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Dec 21st
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How 'Jingle Bells' by the Singing Dogs Changed... →
The Singing Dogs, however, hit # 22 on the Billboard chart in 1955 (it reached an even higher position upon re-release in 1971). Music recordings at the time were considered mere substitutes for live performances; for many listeners, this was the first music they had heard that could exist only as a recording. [via eventualghost]
Dec 20th
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Superman. Batman. Iron Man. Spider-Man.
Dec 20th
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Dec 20th
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Dec 18th
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Dec 18th
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“There were increasingly arcane side projects: without wishing to come off like...”
– The Guardian’s Alexis Petridis on the Magnetic Fields. Wait, what? Suddenly I feel like I’ve been under a rock all year. Which I suppose I have been…. Can anyone tell this erhu and sheng fan what’s up with this project?
Dec 16th
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Dec 16th
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Dec 16th
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Dec 16th
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Dec 16th
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Dec 15th
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Dec 15th
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Dammit, reddit, I got a thing in my eye.  →
Dec 14th
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ListenDarnielle, slow, with cello. [via harharhar] ...
Dec 14th
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Dec 13th
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Dec 11th
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Dec 10th
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Dec 9th
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Everything about this article seems like science... →
To anyone who was paying attention in the 1980s, at least.
Dec 9th
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Dec 8th
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Dec 8th
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Mashup Breakdown offers a real-time visual guide... →
The cool thing: amazing how much one can do with four tracks of audio.
Dec 7th
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Dec 7th
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Dec 7th
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Jiefu Jipin.  →
From Elusive Pirates, Pervasive Smugglers: Violence and Clandestine Trade in the Greater China Seas: One of the most interesting cases of piracy occurred in 1726. During the late summer and early autumn, two fleets that appeared to have worked in conjunction with one another threatened the… [from jessnevins]
Dec 7th
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Dec 7th
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Dec 3rd
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I could spend hours with these "untranslatable"... →
Some are wonderfully profane.
Dec 3rd
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Dick Cheney indicted - but not for anything he did... →
Funny old world, isn’t it?
Dec 3rd
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Dec 1st
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“Get to the back where you BELONG.”
– Trailways bus driver to a black woman - a sergeant in the U.S. Army - who’d been chatting with my dad upon his first arrival in this country, Louisiana, 1960.
Dec 1st