May 2010
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Via Men Are Buying Spanx: For Their “Lower Back Pain,” Of Course: Hey companies, this Jezebel commenter is onto you.
“Like: are marketers actually running out of things they can make us women feel bad about, so they’re moving to the semi-untapped market that is dudes?”
Profit. The answer to everything. Self esteem (in men or women) is bad for the wallets of lots...
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If you’re asking, I’d say that although Henry Miller’s Tropic of Cancer is one of the greatest works of transgressive fiction, it uses too many tired similes for my liking, and Miller’s (over)reliance on conventional rhetorical comparisons is irritating.
That isn’t to say the book is devoid of important transgressive comparisons altogether. It’s not. For...
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“They have survived endless rounds of slam dunks, and occasionally served as chin-up bars and, for the especially nimble, even as spectator seating. Once, the blacksmiths strung a cable around a rim inside the workshop, which they used to tow a van halfway off the ground. That led them to conclude that their handiwork was, with all due humility, indestructible.”
— New York...
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“A man does not need to be rich, or even a citizen, to feel this way about Paris. Paris is filled with poor people—the proudest and filthiest lot of beggars that ever walked the earth, it seems to me. And yet they give the illusion of being at home. It is that which distinguishes the Parisian from all other metropolitan souls.
“When I think of New York I have a very different...
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Someone is performing a cover of Rapper’s Delight in Central Park and it’s distracting me as I read within earshot.
“A local supermarket used to offer this special deal: if you bought fifty bucks worth of receipts, you could buy a dozen eggs for a dime, so my best friends, Ed and Bill, used to stand in the parking lot asking people for their receipts. Ed and Bill, they ate blocks of frozen egg white, 10-pound blocks they got at a bakery supply house, egg albumin being the most easily assimilated protein....
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File under Things that would make me wish I were actually dead: Having to work as one of the photographers doing the photo slideshows of all the birds and marine life dying, right now, on the coast.
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There is no love lost between the dark matter proponents and their MONDian counterparts: both say the other is wrong and scour the Universe in search of evidence to damn their opponents. Neither side has convincingly crushed the other’s argument so far but all concerned seem to agree that when one triumphs, the other will be ground underfoot.
— MIT Technology Review: “How...
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Love is like a brick. You can build a house, or you can sink a dead body.
Preach, Lady Gaga.
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Anatoly Karpov, former world champion and one of the greatest players in chess history, is trying to unseat Kirsan Ilyumzhinov as president of the International Chess Federation. Ilyumzhinov is the president of the tiny southern Russian republic of Kalmykia.
Karpov, who is said to be quite wealthy, has joined the battle in earnest and claimed initially that Ilyumzhinov has not yet received the...
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In Manhattan, bad location is not only pardonable but is also sometimes promoted as another type of exclusivity…
From someone who tries to maintain a home office 40 yards west of the Metro North tracks: Well it really shouldn’t be!
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“The story originated from me stealing a shirt from [American Apparel]. They had...”
– Chuck Palahniuk’s web site interviews author Tao Lin.
Andrey Ternovskiy’s Web site, Chatroulette →
via azspot:
During the next few months, Ternovskiy introduced an array of features, most of which missed the mark: one-on-one chats in “rooms” organized by subject (this was done away with because users kept encountering the same people) and a short-lived bulletin board called Lost & Found, which quickly filled up with men whose hearts had been crushed by the “Next” button and the people...
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unsolicitedanalysis wrote:
The first and most significant problem with communist and socialist systems of economic organization is the nationalization of the banking and economic planning systems. … Market economies inherently promote optimization of distribution and production systems, relying on inputs such as the price of goods and investor demand to govern the behavior of manufacturing...
