February 2012
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Feb 8th
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Feb 4th
“I’m not concerned about the very poor.”
– Mitt Romney, astonishingly not being quoted out of context at all. The dude actually means it.
Feb 1st
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January 2012
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ListenBooks & Beer: Episode 1 The World According to...
Jan 30th
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That one time when my brain replaced all the AP...
Oops. Oops. Oops.
Jan 29th
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ListenBooks & Beer: Episode 0 Fiction vs....
Jan 28th
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Jan 26th
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Jan 24th
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CSI: Apartment
Last night I went to bed around 11 because I’m prematurely-old, early enough that I wasn’t awake to see Clarissa’s friend Jen visit to cheer her up. Judging from the clues left around our apartment, they: Drank two glasses of wine (may have happened later) Went to the store to buy some snacks Picked up a copy of US Weekly from the checkout line Entranced by the cover story...
Jan 22nd
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December 2011
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Dec 27th
Neven Mrgan's tumbl: Murder stats →
mrgan: Crime is fascinating, and murder is the most fascinating crime. Every night, millions of Americans watch fictionalized accounts of the most violent act of all, followed by fictionalized attempts to discover, solve, and punish it. Here are some raw numbers to go with our intuitions and popular… Also worth noting is that murders in the Law & Orders—before they started wrapping...
Dec 26th
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Rendering a squeaky toy unto Caesar, my brother’s dog. Happy holidays from the Brown household!
Dec 25th
Dec 25th
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Upgraded to a iPhone 4S from a 3GS
Random thoughts (that no one needs) after a few days: Whoa, this screen is gorgeous. Already finding myself reading RSS feeds on this thing because the display is so pleasurable. Will buy rumored retina-screen iPad so hard. I hope the camera pushes more point-and-shoots to distinguish themselves with image quality, along the lines of Canon S95/S100. Surprised by how much better even Instagram...
Dec 24th
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Dec 15th
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Editorial Cartoons, everybody.
Dec 7th
ListenTrent Reznor and Atticus Ross - “What If We...
Dec 2nd
November 2011
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Is this the trap?
lbjbookclub: Before gearing up for a multi-month book club spanning thousands of pages, it’s probably good to ask yourself why: Why are these guys so excited about the fourth volume of Caro’s work, and why would I want to follow along? Here’s the pitch: On their own merits Path, Ascent, and Master are masterpieces of their genre. These biographies are extremely well-researched, they’re...
Nov 27th
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Nov 25th
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Memory on a Sunday Morning
One of the strange developments of adulthood has been my body’s stubborn persistence to wake up at about the same time each day. During the week, my 7:30am sleep schedule is strong enough that on the weekends I’m lucky to manage 9am (and even then, only when I force myself to stay up later). So I wake up early on Saturdays and Sundays, with little to do but read and think. And this...
Nov 20th
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Nov 20th
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“The world’s three major nuclear accidents had very different causes, but...”
– Galvanized by the above realization, IEEE Spectrum pieces together the 24 hours after the earthquake/tsunami at Fukushima, and it’s a pretty fascinating tale.
Nov 13th
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Nov 12th
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Currently living the first act of a sitcom episode
Walked to paper/printing store to pick up Save the Date mailings for our wedding. They were ready two days ago, and it took me until now to get over there. Get to store, see sign pasted on door: “back in ten minutes.” Decide to wander around neighborhood, take in the sunshine. See a wine store, go in out of curiosity. Look at wine for ten minutes. Pop out to go back to paper store,...
Nov 4th
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Help support this lit mag Caitlin works for!
iwannabecait: Hello tumblr followers! I work for Beecher’s Magazine (run by graduate students), which just began a kickstarter campaign to raise $5,000. You become a “backer” by making a pledge, and then get something if we reach our goal. The minimum pledge is only $1.00, and any amount helps. If we don’t reach our goal, you don’t have to pay anything! Pledge if you can! You have my love either...
Nov 3rd
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October 2011
“A father trying hard to ‘fit-in’ in his son’s badass world. A...”
– Movietickets.com on Ra. One, sure to be the blockbuster of the summer fall Snowtober.
Oct 29th
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Oct 27th
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Oct 25th
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Can we all just step back for a second and bask in the amazing moment that has made this man (temporarily) a frontrunner for a major party nomination in some polls? Can we do that?
Oct 23rd
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“Basically, Caravaggio meets Fight Club. It’s a really hardcore action film...”
– Tarsem Singh on his new Immortals movie.
Oct 22nd
“The marines learn that humanity is of little interest to most of the aliens; the...”
– The I-am-not-making-this-up plot to one of the spinoff novels from the original Doom FPS in the 90s. You thought it was just about shooting demons and bad dudes, but… uh… think again I guess.
Oct 22nd
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“I will spend my last dying breath if I need to, and I will spend every penny of...”
– The new Steve Jobs Biography is going to be awesome, reports the AP.
Oct 21st
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Oct 16th
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Oct 16th
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Oct 13th
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“Set in present-day Portland, Oregon, the series puts a new twist on the stories...”
– After seeing a commercial for Grimm and learning the premise, I now hate everything.
Oct 10th
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“To enlighten and to entertain: what else is there? And while good books—even...”
– Pete Dexter in a bizarre, rambling review in the NY Times. While I can understand the impulse—and this is reblogged from one of my favorite people on Tumblr—this quote really pisses me off. First, look at the review: it wasn’t linked in the original post and I had to track it down, either...
Oct 9th