April 2012
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Unexceptionalism - A Primer - NYTimes.com →
TO achieve unexceptionalism, the political ideal that would render the United States indistinguishable from the impoverished, traditionally undemocratic, brutal or catatonic countries of the world, do the following….
sobering.
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“… it is the forty-years-on reproduction of a thing that most often proves...”
– What “Mad Men” Shows About American Pop Culture : The New Yorker
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navel-gazed
a friend recently asked if the adage “everything happens for a reason” holds water. i heard it come out of the mouth of a Kardashian on TV yesterday, so that should be answer enough.
i’ve come to a point where i think this belief means is “it’s ok to be a coward.” i’d like to think i’m fairly considerate of my own fears and handicaps, and...
“This next generation [Y] will probably be the first to earn less than their...”
– Christian Stadil (via nusca)
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“According to Hamish Bowles, the international editor-at-large of Vogue and a...”
– Schiaparelli and Prada Connected With Women’s Inner Feelings - NYTimes.com
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listening to an old playlist, i rediscovered this...
“A writer’s brain is full of little gifts, like a piñata at a birthday party....”
– McSweeney’s Internet Tendency: The Ultimate Guide to Writing Better Than You Normally Do.
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“To paraphrase Marx, women make their own circumstances, but not under...”
– Margaret Talbot in this week’s New Yorker
the internet wins again →
text from dog. genius.
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Clueless in bklyn
Last night, following a BAM screening of Clueless, there was a Q & A with director Amy Heckerling and Alicia Sliverstone. Except for everything that came out of Hecklering’s mouth, most of it was forgettable.
The audience was filled with late 20-somethings—girls and guys who were 12 to 15 years old when the movie was first released in 1995. There were several sitting around me who were...
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the bleakness of bruni →
But “Girls” also amplifies a growing chorus of laments over what’s happening on the sexual frontier, a state of befuddlement reflective in part of post-feminist power dynamics and in part of our digital culture and virtual fixations.
Are young women who think that they should be more like men willing themselves into a casual attitude toward sex that’s an awkward emotional fit? Two movies...
eating kale may be the only thing i do that...
there’s been so much change recently, or the possibility of change. so many moments that ask me to prove myself. prove in italics is the kind of prove that means i should have already made the decision about what kind of person i want to be, and now, fortified by this decisive sense of what i want, i must convince those who ask ‘are you enough?’ that i’m enough.
maybe if...
