August 2010
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Reasons Not to Run for President
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mwuerker:
Why Armey won’t run “I’ve got 34 goats that depend on me daily” http://is.gd/eNrZQ
That’s so weird, because that’s pretty much what’s holding me back too!
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“When at last I came upon the right book the feeling was violent: it blew open a...”
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-Nicole Krauss, from Great House (Available on Oct. 12, 2010) (via wwnorton)
In which we at once welcome W. W. Norton to Tumblr and begin to get intrigued by the new Nicole Krauss book.
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“I don’t really consider this blogging. I just like sharing things with my...”
– NTKG gives the best description of Tumblr that I’ve ever read.
(via thegreg)
Yep. That sums it up PERFECTLY.
(via lizlemon)
(via meredithbklyn)
Yes. Publishers take note.
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Playing it by ear: The Atlantic joins the magazine-Tumbling fray in embracing experimentation
Nieman JLab:
[“Experiment. Do whatever you want. Don’t embarrass us too much. And see how it goes.” is] the attitude that has come to characterize the Tumblr accounts of even The Most Serious News Organizations. “I don’t think the Tumblr is something that one needs to or even should bring too...
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“All visible objects, man, are but as pasteboard masks. But in each event — in...”
– Just finished re-reading Moby Dick on Daily Lit. I mean, how good is that passage?
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Howard Kurtz on Why Time is the Last Man Standing....
equalitymyth:
With “the roof having fallen in” on Newsweek and U.S. News & World Report, as Howard Kurtz puts it in today’s Washington Post, it’s Rick Stengel’s Time Magazine that’s become, as Stengel puts it, the newsweekly “category of one.”
So how does Time manage to stay profitable while the rest of us drown? Various ways. But one of them has to do with talent—male talent!
While he...
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“[Had there been more] very worthy applicants in my district then I probably...”
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Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson (D-Tx.), explaining why she directed thousands of dollars in college scholarships to relatives and a top aide’s two children, in apparent violation of the scholarship foundation’s anti-nepotism rules. (via officialssay)
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Why even strict vegans should feel comfortable... →
(via matthew)
This is actually very well reasoned. And it’s starting to make me question my commitment to Burger Friday….
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New bloggy blog blog blog. →
(via sarahfrank)
There’s a fun Joe Haldeman story about an alien who discovers moonshine, called “All the Universe in a Mason Jar”
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“Answering the city desk phones and talking to readers, I learned how deeply...”
– This is a nice read from MinnPost, part of a memoir of working as a female journalist in Duluth in the early 1970s.
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“When they are lying, bosses avoid the word “I”, opting instead for the third...”
– From an Economist piece on a study analyzing nearly 30,000 conference calls by U.S. CEOs and CFOs, “Detecting Deceptive Discussions in Conference Calls”
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Reading Dixie: An Interview with Amy Hempel →
scribnerbooks:
We love Amy Hempel more than anyone. And it’s nice to see her getting love from lots of other places, including Gigantic Literary Mag, where she talks about the Gulf Coast oil spill, Barry Hannah, and “Southern sentences.”
Welcome Scribner! Any Tumblr that begins with an Amy Hempel post is going to be just fine.
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ninety9:
markcoatney:
Thanks, Time! It’s an honor to be mentioned with such great sites.
Doree’s got to have unfollwed Mark by now. He’s got ‘Trendlet Piece Bingo’ covered in every direction.
Ha! And to think my editors used to say I lacked skills….
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“It’s about getting the best motherf—king shot you can get, I don’t care where...”
– Spike Lee, on the value of the best shot. Lee’s second four-hour documentary about the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, If God Is Willing and Da Creek Don’t Rise, premiered on HBO last night. (via newsweek)
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WatchToday in It’s Funny Because It’s True: “TIME Announces New Version Of Magazine Aimed At Adults”
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“Just as human meme machines spread over the planet, using up its resources and...”
– I’m telling you people, Skynet is real
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