January 2012
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A critique is not a matter of saying that things are not right as they are. It...
– Michel Foucault, “Practicing Criticism” (via talajoon)
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Just because I have nowhere else to share this
Via the best Cardinals blog with a shitty name Viva El Birdos…
Should Moyer make a Major League appearance in 2012, we’ll remain seven Oldest Players removed from the beginning of time. When he was a rookie in 1986, the oldest player in baseball was Phil Niekro. When Niekro was a rookie in 1964, it was Warren Spahn. Spahn, in 1942, causes a setback in Joe Heving, who got a late start...
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The Great Republican Party for Florida
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The Republican party has turned inward on itself again. Now Mitt and Newt are attacking each other for being anti-immigrant.
Until they get to the next state.
That’s what I’m thinking.
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The Great Republican Party for Florida
The Republican party has turned inward on itself again. Now Mitt and Newt are attacking each other for being anti-immigrant.
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"Just as Communists managed to destroy Communism,... →
claytoncubitt:
“A Pew Research Center poll in December found that only 50 percent of Americans reacted positively to the term “capitalism,” while 40 percent reacted negatively. Among Americans ages 18 to 29, more had a negative view of capitalism than a positive view, the survey found. Those young Americans actually viewed socialism more positively than capitalism. In other words, America’s...
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Still awake. Not even tired.
Still awake. Not even tired.
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The head-spinning end result is an indie-rock world that feels like a place...
– Confuse the Market: Post-Crossover, Indie Retreats
Scott Plagenhoef is ruthlessly on point in his Village Voice Pazz & Jop essay, particularly in this paragraph where he perfectly articulates something I’ve been trying to say since, like, 2005.
(via perpetua)
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Pulling my first all nighter of the quarter.
Actually, scratch that, of my WHOLE COLLEGE CAREER. Isn’t that a strange thing to think about? I’ve never stayed up all night doing homework in college. And I’m doing it tonight, weeks before midterms and months before finals just to do a project I could have been working on all week and didn’t because I’m lazy and like playing video games and watching sports on the...
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Petition: No more protests in Rahm Emanuel's... →
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Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel is urging his City Council to enact strict new restrictions on many forms of protest on Wednesday, January 18. Local advocates say the Council is distracted by a fierce redistricting battle and that the new ordinance is likely to pass unnoticed, unless there’s a huge outcry.
Occupy Rogers Park and Occupy South Side...
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It is not the consciousness of men that determines their being, but, on the...
– Karl Marx, Preface to the Critique of Political Economy
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December 2011
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YOUNG MONEY TRUST FALLS: Given up on music... →
psychastenie:
radiospiricom:
psychastenie:
Drake at #8 on Pitchforks top 50 list? Talk about boring. I don’t want to be indielitist, but Pitchfork’s acceptance and promotion of mainstream music has gone too far. Can’t go any further into the subject or else I’ll blow a gasket.
Never said “indie music is better,” if you pay attention to other stuff I’ve written I take...
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Given up on music criticism
radiospiricom:
psychastenie:
Drake at #8 on Pitchforks top 50 list? Talk about boring. I don’t want to be indielitist, but Pitchfork’s acceptance and promotion of mainstream music has gone too far. Can’t go any further into the subject or else I’ll blow a gasket.
pffffff lol
Drake is a thematic pussy. Now I’m going to go back to talking about music that doesn’t bore me to...
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Given up on music criticism
Drake at #8 on Pitchforks top 50 list? Talk about boring. I don’t want to be indielitist, but Pitchfork’s acceptance and promotion of mainstream music has gone too far. Can’t go any further into the subject or else I’ll blow a gasket.
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Fox News is winning the election for Obama. →
Which is probably what Fox News wants. The longer they are the ones without a President in the White House, the longer they can play up the “persecuted conservative/Christian” angle which is undoubtedly good for business. As the article examines, Fox News gets along by creating controversy, not by following actual news-related events. If Nancy Pelosi is the biggest democrat on the...
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