December 2011
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November 2011
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sajfajbgosdgisdbksjfnodnjfo.
^^This is how I feel about absolutely everything right now. Time to go listen to (and read along with) my plethora of recordings of Allen Ginsberg reading his poems.
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“When I started to write it was the ’70s and throughout that decade we didn’t...”
– Young adult lit author Judy Blume on the rise of censorship in school libraries over the last several decades. (via npr)
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Last member of 65,000-year-old tribe dies, taking... →
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The last member of a 65,000-year-old tribe has died, taking one of the world’s earliest languages to the grave. Boa Sr, who died in 2010 aged about 85, was the last native of the Andaman Islands who was fluent in Bo. Named after the tribe, Bo is one of the 10 Great Andamanese languages, which are thought to date back to the pre-Neolithic period when the earliest humans walked...
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fauxlashes replied to your post: This dress needs to get to my house. Right now. I…
OH MY GOD, I LOVE IT!
ISN’T JUST SO ADORABLE? I can’t wait to wear it. Guh, so excited. I love clothes that are reminiscent of of the 50s or 60s. Therefore, I love when I can find inexpensive clothing [particularly dresses] that do!
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This dress needs to get to my house. Right now. I am too excited to wait.
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“I was there to take down the names of people who were arrested… As I’m standing...”
– Retired New York Supreme Court Judge Karen Smith, working as a legal observer after the raids on Zucotti Park this Tuesday, via Paramilitary Policing of Occupy Wall Street: Excessive Use of Force amidst the New Military Urbanism (via seriouslyamerica)
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“Marlon Brando snapped the history of film acting in half. Before Brando, the profession was still a largely Victorian art, with an emphasis on playacting, pantomime, and dusty old tricks that played better onstage than onscreen. But with 1951’s A Streetcar Named Desire, he turned movie acting into something revolutionary, even heroic. Trained in Lee Strasberg’s “Method”, Brando brought a new...
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“But when a saga popular with pre-adolescent girls peaks romantically on a night...”
– NPR’s Linda Holmes reviews Twilight Breaking Dawn, Pt. 1 (via diandrabird)
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Does this scare the hell out of anyone else?
“YouTube, Twitter and Facebook have played an important role in political movements from Tahrir Square to Zuccotti Park. At present, social networking services are protected by a “safe harbor” provision of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, which grants Web sites immunity from prosecution as long as they act in good faith to take down infringing content as soon as rights-holders point it...
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It’s 3:06 AM, and I am just now getting to bed….I spent the last two and half hours writing about Tennessee Williams’ A Streetcar Named Desire. I only needed to write a few questions about the last few scenes of it for class, but I ended up writing two pages on them. But this play…dear god. I can’t imagine being such a brilliant writer. If you haven’t read it,...
