January 2012
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I wonder if sites going dark over SOPA
… will just make people realize there are things to do other than look at the internet.
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December 2011
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Judd Nelson once told me
When asked for a saying, Judd Nelson told me, “Keep your teeth.” It was a saying from his grandma. It was, I have always thought, a crappy saying. But today that’s changed. Today I’m really feeling “Keep your teeth.”
PS My teeth are just fine.
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It is now the month of December, when the greatest part of the city is in a...
– Seneca The Younger, from a letter referencing Saturnalia (via wwnorton)
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Charles Mingus' eggnog recipe
MINGUS’S 5-STAR RAPTUROUS DEADLY HOLIDAY EGGNOG!! “Mingus’s holiday eggnog was a concoction so delicious and mind-blowing, you would do anything to make sure that you saw him at Christmas. Over the phone once, he gave me the recipe.” — Janet Coleman With holidays coming up, we decided to share Charles Mingus’s rapturous, if potentially deadly, recipe...
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November 2011
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The nadir of NPR interviews
Last night I heard the worst NPR interview ever. As if it weren’t embarrassing enough to be talking to Adam Levine about the disco faux-rock hit “Moves Like Jagger,” host Guy Raz was thick as a brick. Why Mick Jagger? he asked. Levine admitted that he didn’t actually write the song’s hook; that was somebody else. The host went on to follow up with zingers like: What...
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October 2011
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Happy halloween
When police first entered Ed Gein’s bedroom, four human skulls adorned the bedposts.
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