December 2011
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Random Intel: Bell Hooks, Postmodern Blackness
couple spot-on excerpts from bell hooks, postmodern blackness:
[8] Writing about blacks and postmodernism, Cornel West describes our collective plight:
There is increasing class division and differentiation, creating on the one hand a significant black middle-class, highly anxiety- ridden, insecure, willing to be co-opted and ...
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Occupy! The OWS Inspired Gazette #3 →
on N+1, free
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Choate-Broke
true story (essentially)…
INT. VON - LATE AFTERNOON
Sitting at a table in the back of the downtown NYC bar is then managing editor of Gawker Media, now internet entrepreneur extraordinaire Lockhart Steele. That is his real name. He stands upon noticing the arrival of the only black guy in the bar, PATRICE EVANS aka TAN aka THE ASSIMILATED NEGRO:
LS: Hi there, are you Patrice The...
holiday dump coming
fair warning. i’m in florida, and thought i’d be taking this holiday week to do some sweet sweet intergalactically revolutionary blogging. but then there was no wi-fi. and there was a beach. soooo, y’know. but now there is wi-fi. so i’m gonna probably smush a bunch of it together, now, soon, before the revelry, and leave it at that. i imagine i’ll be out of dodge...
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WatchSHUMP!
did not know he was *that* guy
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a guide to farting in the middle of a blowjob →
i helped drew out w/ his funbag, and saw this headline and was like this is the most clickable headline ever created. i want to share it with everyone! i will always click on this! it can’t just be me, can it? (please say no)
and it would all be worth it for this
“But if this is a Drunken Hookup situation, where even the slightest pause in momentum means your hookup is OVER, then I...
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My career doesn’t look like that. In graphic form,... →
Neal Pollack, author of six books most recently “Jewball”, charts the spikes of his career as a writer from McSweeneys darling opening rock shows with readings, to his recent self-published experiment and all the sobbing into pillows in-between (and after).
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Spotted On The Red Carpet
wtfismikewearing:
She knows.
with the images on the amazing WTF is Mike Wearing tumblr, I also keep wondering WTF is Mike’s Girlfriend Thinking.
also in the comments of the posts with his girlfriend you can see the “why is he with that white girl” phenomenon still exists (which i keep thinking is done and passé until bringing a light-skin to a dark-skin party, and/or...
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“I did some research on assist quality this summer, and in their player comments...”
– John Hollinger (on Baron Davis)
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Perfect Stocking Stuffer: The Soulquarian Box Set →
on Grantland
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“Sometimes I get so lonely I forget what day it is…”
– dagmar (via lars)
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I’m a spitfire. I don’t know what you call this... →
Vanna White, still grinding
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“But Cee-Lo and I started talking, and I somehow got off on this tangent about...”
– Danger Mouse (via)
(checked in on Danger Mouse on Grantland)
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“I like to have a martini,
Two at the very most.
After three I’m under the...”
– Dorothy Parker
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Afblac
NEED ART ON THIS!
life insurance for black people
AFBLAC
some notes:
- black duck? - rap duck? - jheri curl duck? - afro duck? - black voice doing the quack-sounding “afblac”? - black duck twitter account, #afblac? - black duck tumblr (single-serving Q&A: “Yo is this life insurance really what’s poppin’ in the streets? Yes, yes it is.”) - mockup of...
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“Thought Catalog is me clinging to my silly youth and Gawker is me trying to be...”
– PuñodeLetras (via)
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The show went on sale at noon on Saturday,... →
Louis CK posts a statement about how his “buy my special for $5 on Paypal” project is going. It’s going great! (he’s also on the BS Report today)
Alex Papademas called it ”the In Rainbows of comedy specials” which I liked. In Rainbows didn’t end up signaling a shift in how we sell records, as many theorized at the time, but I guess it’s still nice...
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Look, never mind nude Lindsay Lohan! The point for... →
(*puts hand over heart*) I pledge allegiance to The Roots as the newly appointed “America’s Band”.
also: a tumblr spontaneity exclusive! via use of the word “dadgummit”. i suspect the only two usages you will see this week.
(so concludes this week’s public service announcement, sponsored by grantland)
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Five Species Of Carnivorous Pitcher Plant →
…and other “real science” goodies. molly lambert’s first installment of the grantland pop science corner is like christmas
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and their mascot was a nightmare-fuel bunny rabbit... →
always a holiday with katie baker, but this week’s Bake Shop is like Christmas
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Studying 5 minutes before a test.
How to read Negropedia!
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