June 2010
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From a New York Times article about the possible repeal of the US military’s ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’ policy
[…] both opponents and supporters of the ban say a host of thorny practical questions will face the Pentagon if Congress gives final approval to legislation allowing the repeal of the ban, which could happen this summer.
Will openly gay service members...
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WatchThe Trillion Dollar campaign for The Zimbabwean newspaper which did brilliantly at last night’s D&AD Awards, and won South Africa’s first Black Pencil (i.e. the top prize possible). This is the kind of genius that reinforces my admiration for the advertising world - because when advertising is good, it is really good. So many of the nominees/winners from the Awards are fantastic,...
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Conservapedia: 'The Trustworthy Encyclopedia' I... →
A whiny, liberal atheist bellyaches to NPR that he feels like a cultural outsider. Solution: Dump atheism and adopt the open-minded truth of Christianity. You’ll no longer cringe when you think about the origin of life and you’ll have all the evidence you need.
So I suppose the great minds of the world have convened and decided: why have a ‘free encyclopedia anyone can...
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May 2010
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I swear that for every news article about Jafar Panahi’s release there are five hundred about the new Sex and the City film set in Abu Dhabi. Surely I can’t be the only one who thinks that, as middle-east-based film-world matters go, the fate of Jafar Panahi is actually more important than Carrie Bradshaw? Or am I being naive? I’m sorry - I do like her shoes - but perhaps I like...
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Existentialist Firefighter Delays 3 Deaths | The... →
According to department officials, Farber, a 13-year veteran of Ladder Company 8, climbed through a kitchen window and, despite carrying with him a heavy burden of alienation, managed to see all three members of the family to safety.
Yes today’s theme is The Onion but I do love it and am not ashamed of that fact. When it gives me articles like this my faith in humanity is raised a few...
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“Once a philosopher, twice a pervert.”
– Voltaire, declining an invitation to take part in a second orgy
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John Taylor - ‘film the blanks’ posters
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The Rolling Stones at Villa Nellcôte, France, 1971. Photography by Dominique Tarlé.
Irresistably beautiful images, making the whole lifestyle look a little too tempting.
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“We keep passing unseen through little moments of other people’s lives.”
– Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
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Things I’d said by 10 a.m. today:
“I’m a terrible fiend of a liar, but what else can I do?”
“Anaemia is a vampire illness except I don’t sparkle.”
“Ah thank you, I love you, you’ve saved my life. Yes I’d like it ring-binded.”
“I’m always excited by Ingmar Bergman.”
“It’s too early in the morning...
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I’ll miss this so much when I’m gone. I do love Manchester - I have civic pride to rival Tony Wilson’s - but it doesn’t have any open space to match the downs.
It’ll be odd not simply having them within walking distance after all these years, for blackberry-picking in autumn (strolling along beside hedgerows collecting more free food than any of us need, initiating...
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“So what are you going to do with yourself now you have so much free time?” “Watch Flight of the Conchords? Lounge about cafes writing poetry dedicated to the strangers at the next table? Reunite with Jim Beam?”
Au revoir tristesse, bonjour new lifestyle [yes I slipped out of French there but there’s a time and a place and now is not the time for strenuous mental...
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“I haven’t slept for ten days, because that would be too long.”
– Mitch Hedberg
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Just spoke to my mother on the phone, just got profoundly irritated with my mother on the phone, just told my mother that according to Julia Kristeva if I don’t commit succesful matricide I will never be happy. And so ends a conversation. I didn’t feel the need to add that it only had to be a symbolic murder.
I don’t agree with Kristeva - but I do enjoy a chance for some good...
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£3 book of Berryman’s poems + £2.95 Frappucino + £1.05 for three shiny Braeburn apples = good to know simple happiness (literature, caffeine & apples) can be bought for £7. If only there were a decent second-hand record store closer by, I’d go pick up some unlikely old Nick Cave album, and then, having spent ten whole pounds, die overdosing on an ecstasy not to be found in little...
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“Three o’clock. Three o’clock is always too late or too early for...”
– Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea
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