February 2012
4 posts
Record Review / Shearwater
cokemachineglow:
http://www.cokemachineglow.com/record_review/6815/shearwater-animaljoy-2012
This album creates [a] space where both that source of fear and joy are simultaneous, inevitable, and sublime. “Sublime,” conveniently, also happens to be the way it sounds.
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January 2012
5 posts
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518. Expect no sympathy for a hangover. And give...
November 2011
3 posts
October 2011
3 posts
September 2011
2 posts
“All America lies at the end of the wilderness road, and our past is not a dead...”
– Larry McMurtry
“For only in praising is my heart still mine, so violently do I know the world....”
– Rainer Maria Rilke
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"Mexico" →
My friend Mark has a poem on ZOUCH. Check it OUCHT.
#Mexico #Texas #border
August 2011
5 posts
Reversion and "Rustic" Hipsters →
“Should the twilight of the Anthropocene come, the retro-woodsmen fashionistos would likely be among the first to die off. But some others—hardcore survivalists, off-the-gridders, those country boys that can still skin a buck and run a trout line—might survive. And as they comb through the storefronts of downtown Manhattan for supplies, one imagines that beneath the piles of moth-eaten...
July 2011
3 posts
Grantland Does an Oral History on "Friday Night... →
So excellent. Texas forever.
June 2011
7 posts
Magic at the 1893 World's Fair
Chance encounters led to magic.
Frank Haven Hall, superintendent of the Illinois Institution for the Education of the Blind, unveiled a new device that made plates for printing books in Braille. Previously Hall had invented a machine capable of typing in Braille, the Hall Braille Writer, which he never patented because he felt profit should not sully the cause of serving the blind. As he stood by...
496. There are plenty of ways to enter a pool. The...
May 2011
6 posts
489. Velvet ropes are for suckers.
April 2011
7 posts
Matt Stiles // Daily Viz: Closing Texas' Budget... →
My favorite Texas Tribune app so far.
mattstiles:
At work we developed an app that allows readers to make choices in an effort to close the state’s $27 billion shortfall.
Texas lawmakers have six weeks left in the regular session, and their struggle with the state’s tight budget is expected to take up much of that time. It could even push…
“In the immemorial style of young men under pressure, they decided to lie down...”
– Michael Chabon, “The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay,” Part II. Ch. 7.
Our Rare Exception
One of the sturdiest precepts of the study of human delusion is that every golden age is either past or in the offing. The months preceding the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor offer a rare exception to this axiom. During 1941, in the wake of that outburst of gaudy hopefulness, the World’s Fair, a sizable portion of the citizens of New York City had the odd experience of feeling for the time...
March 2011
4 posts
February 2011
3 posts
“My guest Stephanie Coontz has a new book about women in the 1960’s. From what I...”
– Stephen Colbert (via petervidani)