Bob Longmore from How Was The Show, proves my theory that The Hold Steady/Drive-by Truckers show was fucking magic.
Asides
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Nov 08
It’s with an I not a Y
Google suggesting the correct spelling of your name has got to be a sign of some sort of success, right?
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Nov 08
So it goes, in honor of Vonnegut’s birthday
“I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the kinds of things you can’t see from the center.”
“What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which [...]
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Nov 08
50 years of wanting to do with it you
50 years of popular songs condensed into single sentences. My favorite: Frank Sinatra, “Strangers in the Night” — I’m drunk and I want to do it with you. {via}
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Nov 08
Our collective anxiety
The NY Times has an awesome graphic thing about which words describe people’s current frame of mind. Of course, you can’t know for sure if McCain supports are actually sad, depressed, and disgusted while Obama supporters are hopeful, cautious, and giddy. But it’s still cool to look at. I said I was excited (I went [...]
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Nov 08
Best election deal I’ve seen all day
Save $4 on any Threadless t-shirt with the coupon code ivoted.
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Nov 08
Senator Biden is now my homeboy
Joe Biden interviewed by 5th grader Damon Weaver. So awesome. {via}
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Nov 08
Mood killers
9 people who kill the mood during sex. Missing from the list? The dude who keeps asking you tell him you love him during sex, even though you don’t and he would freakrightout if you said I love you any time that wasn’t during sex. {via}
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Oct 08
Our hearts were really thumping
I have to admit that today’s victory dance looked quite a bit like the red-shorts girls from John Cougar Mellencamp’s Cherry Bomb video. You know what I’m talking about, right?
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Oct 08
America’s coolest libraries
Minneapolis’ Central Library named one of America’s 10 Coolest Libraries.
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Oct 08
Today is Sylvia Plath’s birthday, she would have been 76
“And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.†— Sylvia Plath
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Oct 08
Missing the mark
Good God Almighty! I wish I could make sweet, sweet love to Lionel Shriver’s WSJ piece about the lack of proper quotation marks in a lot of literary fiction’s dialog. Sing it, Sister! I hate when writer’s don’t use the quotation marks (sorry Junot Diaz). [via]
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Oct 08
In honor of ee cummings’ birthday
“To be nobody-but-yourself — in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else — means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.”
–ee cummings
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Oct 08
The newsest news star
For those playing along at home, I am pleased to announce that Princess Jaycie got the reporter job she was applying for a few weeks ago. However, I learned that the job isn’t for the school newspaper but rather the school news network. Bah!
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Oct 08
Google 2001
You know what kinda pumps my nads about the Google 2001 search of the Web? That you can find I Will Dare.
