August 2010
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Chris Mohney: Paying It Forward, Backward, To the... →
People deserve to be paid for their work. And if you haven’t been paid, neither explanations nor justifications will really suffice. Let’s accept these points as read.
Wowee, the perils of being a freelance writer sure does make for some good-ass free reading material. Chris Mohney — definitely in the lineup for Team Good Guys — is here with a calm professional unpacking of...
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In addition to the panel transcript, the book... →
The pre-order for What Was the Hipster?: A Sociological Investigation is up on Amazon.
Happy to sound off in this hipster death knell; humbled to keep company with smart do-gooders like feminist-activist extraordinaire Jennifer Baumgardner and Pulitzer winner Margo Jefferson.
I’ll post a snippet and offer more thoughts when the mixtape book officially drops (I brought the hip hop and...
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Wait! Before You Like Your Next Cat Photo or Check...
youngmanhattanite:
92y:
It’s great to see media companies embracing the Tumblr platform. (One note: how did they leave out The Today Show? It’s one of our favorites.) We couldn’t imagine our online diet without the Tumblr community, and as an IRL non-profit community center since 1874, we appreciate good community when we see it!
We’ve been on Tumblr since 2008 and it would be great to see...
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Did I miss. The Memo to Human Civilization. On...
(h/t to The Man Upstairs)
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How to Use Exclamation Points on the Internet: A...
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“Never dump a guy who makes you laugh AND cum. Get yourself a good job and...”
– Anonymous (commenter responding to advice column discussing whether a younger girl should leave her 33-year old brilliant pothead-creative boyfriend)
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Rappers Who Are Emo Enough In Their Lyrics to Play...
biz markie: the original goofball. i talked to him about the friend thing once. drake: a little too confident, but he shows enough all around vulnerability to be directed. andre 3000: if michael cera was raised on the cosby show Akinyele Asher Roth: he’d have stud potential if he went more cera, less frat-boy. Slug: i don’t really know Atmosphere like that, but by reputation Q-Tip:...
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“Little boys fall down then get up, and keep running.
Little girls fall down and...”
– (via kellyoxford)
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For young men, it can be shocking to see how... →
Gavin McInnes, co-founder of Vice Magazine and Street Carnage, offered some notes of warning upon turning 40 this weekend. Mazel.
In my internet reading experience I still haven’t quite seen anything reach the levels of literal balls-out writing/blogging like Gavin and Early Vice magazine. “Bohemian terrorism” as Chris Mohney once called it. That sensibility now almost seems...
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The Sad Tale of Mr. Racist and The Well
a modern Negro fable…
There was once was a wonderful town named Uniqloville. It was an up-and-coming town, filled with vim, vigor and prosperity. The population was young, ethnoculturally diverse, and everybody loved one another and got along splendid. Well everybody except one individual: an older white man named Mr. Racist.
Now Mr. Racist was a foul-mouthed, contemptible human being. A...