October 2010
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September 2010
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This tag on The Awl is too good to be lonely... →
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“And since I write this column mostly as a weekly monument to my own ego but also...”
– Alex Fanaroff.
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Can't quite think right now
OK so I shouldn’t have to explain any more, but J.R. Moehringer wrote about spending two years in Las Vegas for October’s Smithsonian, and it is so, so good:
And it’s not just books. Vegas discourages everything prized by book people, like silence and reason and linear thinking. Vegas is about noise, impulse, chaos. You like books? Go back to Boston.
She said a mega-rich couple...
“Did you hear that the Barnes & Noble in this film, the one on 66th Street,...”
– Mindy Kaling!
It was the night before the night before Tailgate
Peter: banana costume or $100 bill costume?
me: wow
maybe the latter
it's gonna be hot
Peter: hmm
I think they're equally shitty costumes, meaning they won't be insulating either way
me: true
so which one?
Peter: I think I'm going to go with banana
I'll wait and see what it looks like, maybe return it and get the $100 instead
I would quote from it, but quoting an entire... →
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“It’s the idea that writers can speak in a voice that wasn’t handed...”
– Kelly Dwyer on blogs.
So this exists, and it will be in my hands by... →
I had hoped to ask Hamm something about "Mad Men"... →
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He told Obama: “No, no, no. Look, pal, I told you... →
Wonder if this is the last time Barack Obama was called “pal,” because I’m pretty sure Joey Bye-Bye probably addresses him in the morning as “chief” or “boss” or maybe even “bud.”
Between this profile of the bin Laden hunter, the... →
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Rahm Emanuel’s preferred nickname for the nation’s... →
"I like that my friends don't really care about... →
High-school students' performance last year on the... →
Colors don’t matter much to Zuckerberg; a few... →
Sports have long served as a laboratory for new... →
Related:
The idea for the Upshot, Yahoo said, was to create an engaging channel of original news and leverage the portal’s massive audience the way Yahoo Sports first did.
And related:
However, Yahoo!, which has an editorial and support staff of about 200, and AOL, which employs 250 full-time editorial staff members, have been beefing up their ranks and building on their early success in...
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“She knows she’s dope,” he said. “She’s beautiful... →
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Even though he’s a Carolina fan, the Chapel... →
To his friends at AEPi—one of Harvard’s... →
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No Trinity student in his or her right mind would... →
The depth of suffering that one sees at Duke... →
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Rule 37.
survivingandthrivingindurham:
The seemingly off-duty cops eating at Cosmic can and will arrest you.
We left LDOC early this year, mostly out of protest. No one had told us that something called Flogging Molly would be headlining our last concert at Duke, so after Jay Sean lip-synched his way into the night, we took a C-2 to Erwin Road and walked underneath the bridge. (That was terrifying in...
Mad Men doesn't always avoid this trap, but its... →
“The litter also appeared to have improved,” she... →
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Rashida Jones garnered attention with an open... →
Also, Rashida Jones has dated: Tobey Maguire, Mark Ronson, Seth Meyers, John Krasinski and Jon Favreau, who is described as “director of speechwriting for President Barack Obama.” At first glance, that made me think she has dated, well, you know, and I wasn’t totally shocked.
I said I wanted a salad for an appetizer, and... →
In which Sam Sifton brings the (tomato) juice,... →
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Jay-Z, who wore a No. 2 Knicks Jersey (Larry... →
(via Andrew Sharp)
I won't condemn anyone who spends $10.51 at Cosmic... →