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"Cultural criticism on the internet is dying because we finally realized that the voices behind..."

Sat, 21 Jan 2012 21:44:42 -0500

“Cultural criticism on the internet is dying because we finally realized that the voices behind blogs, twitter feeds, and authentic writing outlets are as fat, bored, uninspired, and jealous as the fat, bored, uninspired, and jealous voices that we thought we had escaped from.”

- Watching Hipster Runoff Eat its Own Tail | Splitsider

"Skrillex’s work, in particular, is a lot more of a pile-up, as if someone’s picked all the most..."

Sat, 14 Jan 2012 11:53:57 -0500

“Skrillex’s work, in particular, is a lot more of a pile-up, as if someone’s picked all the most obviously, superficially cool and high-impact parts of a dozen different genres, dredged them in stimulants, and started mashing them against one another—the same way Quentin Tarantino can rifle through a dozen film genres and borrow all the best fight scenes. There’s Daft Punk’s insistent pop-dance; the blocky neon blips of electro; the melodic buzz of old video games; the gushy, sentimental melodies of trance; the high-speed skip and glitch of Aphex Twin; the glammy pop feel of L.A. party music—all things that are easy to like. And when you mush them all together into one clanging, high-octane stew, they become extremely easy to like, whether or not the listener has ever known or cared about electronic music before. Not elegant, deep, or moving, but very easy to get a thrill out of.”

- Why Does America Love Skrillex? — Vulture

"ROUTINE IS A NARCOTIC AND THAT’S WHY WE CAN’T GET PIZZA EVERY NIGHT"

Fri, 06 Jan 2012 19:45:20 -0500

“ROUTINE IS A NARCOTIC AND THAT’S WHY WE CAN’T GET PIZZA EVERY NIGHT”

- Jenny Holzer, Mom (jennyholzermom) on Twitter

"I never thought I would discover a Black nerd community. I knew there were individuals who felt like..."

Mon, 02 Jan 2012 14:09:15 -0500

“I never thought I would discover a Black nerd community. I knew there were individuals who felt like I did, but I didn’t know we all were lonely and isolated, faking the funk, as it were.”

- Coming Out of the Black Nerd Closet: A Meditation « Phillis Remastered

"21st-century blackness has lost its rigid center, and irony permeates the cultural membrane. More..."

Fri, 30 Dec 2011 12:06:19 -0500

“21st-century blackness has lost its rigid center, and irony permeates the cultural membrane. More than kids knowing they can be president of the United States, it might be more crucial to the expansion of black identity that — thanks to, say, N.E.R.D or Odd Future — they know they can be skate punks.”

- Wesley Morris on LeBron, Dwyane, Amar’e, and the rise of the NBA nerd - Grantland

"Portlandia” is an extended joke about what Freud called the narcissism of small differences: the..."

Wed, 28 Dec 2011 08:54:14 -0500

““Portlandia” is an extended joke about what Freud called the narcissism of small differences: the need to distinguish oneself by minute shadings and to insist, with outsized militancy, on the importance of those shadings.”

- Carrie Brownstein and Fred Armisen in “Portlandia” : The New Yorker

"i me you we he she ate a yum yum grubemups smorgasbording its like breathing take a man out of fish..."

Tue, 27 Dec 2011 15:26:14 -0500

“i me you we he she ate a yum yum grubemups smorgasbording its like breathing take a man out of fish you can fish we all are fish where’s that fish the man looks at us like fish through his crystal window and we we we we we weeeeeeee (!) look back”

- LITERARY GENRE TRANSLATIONS - McSweeney’s

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"Today I make my stand. Here goes: The eyes of anthropomorphized cars are the headlights, not the..."

Mon, 26 Dec 2011 21:34:46 -0500

“Today I make my stand. Here goes: The eyes of anthropomorphized cars are the headlights, not the windshield.”

- How Pixar screwed up cartoon cars for a generation of kids

"Suddenly, one day some little fat girl in Ohio is gonna be the new Mozart…and make a beautiful film..."

Mon, 26 Dec 2011 15:18:32 -0500

“Suddenly, one day some little fat girl in Ohio is gonna be the new Mozart…and make a beautiful film with her father’s little camera-corder, and for once this whole professionalism about movies will be destroyed, forever, and it will really become an art form.”

- Francis Ford Coppola Predicts YouTube in 1991

I am so into this meme.

Sun, 25 Dec 2011 18:21:31 -0500

I am so into this meme.

Sure.

Sun, 25 Dec 2011 18:19:19 -0500

Sure.

TEE-RASH

Sun, 25 Dec 2011 13:55:08 -0500

TEE-RASH

"Despite the EITC and child credit, the poverty trap is still very much a reality in the U.S. A woman..."

Sun, 25 Dec 2011 12:35:35 -0500

“Despite the EITC and child credit, the poverty trap is still very much a reality in the U.S. A woman called me out of the blue last week and told me her self-sufficiency counselor had suggested she get in touch with me. She had moved from a $25,000 a year job to a $35,000 a year job, and suddenly she couldn’t make ends meet any more. I told her I didn’t know what I could do for her, but agreed to meet with her. She showed me all her pay stubs etc. She really did come out behind by several hundred dollars a month. She lost free health insurance and instead had to pay $230 a month for her employer-provided health insurance. Her rent associated with her section 8 voucher went up by 30% of the income gain (which is the rule). She lost the ($280 a month) subsidized child care voucher she had for after-school care for her child. She lost around $1600 a year of the EITC. She paid payroll tax on the additional income. Finally, the new job was in Boston, and she lived in a suburb. So now she has $300 a month of additional gas and parking charges. She asked me if she should go back to earning $25,000. I told her that she should first try to find a $35k job closer to home. Also, she apparently can’t fully reverse her decision to take the higher paying job because she can’t get the child care voucher back (the waiting list is several years long she thinks). She is really stuck. She tried taking an additional weekend job, but the combination of losing 30 percent in increased rent and paying for someone to take care of her child meant it didn’t help much either.”

- When it Comes to Taxes on the Poor, the Supply Siders are Right

Happy Christmas, everybody!

Sun, 25 Dec 2011 09:15:27 -0500

Happy Christmas, everybody!

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-12-18)

Thu, 22 Dec 2011 00:17:40 -0500

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-12-18):

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Marian Montgomery : Then I’ll Be Tired of You

Mon, 19 Dec 2011 13:42:10 -0500

Marian Montgomery : Then I’ll Be Tired of You

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