February 2012
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Feb 23rd
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Feb 22nd
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Feb 18th
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Feb 16th
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Feb 16th
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Feb 16th
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Feb 14th
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Feb 11th
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Feb 9th
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Feb 8th
jvck asked: what are those mummified sneakers??
Feb 5th
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Feb 4th
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Feb 4th
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Feb 4th
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Feb 3rd
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January 2012
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Jan 29th
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Jan 29th
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Spin: Rick Ross "Rich Forever" Review →
tumblinerb: I reviewed the Rozay tape at Spin.
Jan 27th
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Jan 22nd
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Jan 11th
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“This, again, was among the fictions of Coketown. Any capitalist there, who had...”
–  Hard Times (Dickens - 1854)
Jan 11th
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A guy who uses the “emotionally unavailable” excuse is a piece of trash and a girl who pursues him anyway is an idiot.
Jan 8th
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“What is the feeling when you’re driving away from people, and they recede...”
– Jack Kerouac
Jan 5th
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Jan 2nd
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December 2011
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Dec 31st
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Dec 25th
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“I never viewed money as being “my money” I always saw it as “The money.” It’s a...”
– Louis C.K. on splitting four ways the $1 million proceeds from the online sale of his Beacon Theater show: Paying for production costs, rewarding his staff with bonuses, keeping $220,000 for himself and his fam and giving the remaining $280,000 to nonprofits (including the awesome charity: water). ...
Dec 22nd
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“Our life is looking forward or looking back, that’s it. Where is the...”
– Ricky Roma (Glengarry Glen Ross)
Dec 17th
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Some people take getting their eBay feedback very seriously: I am so sad… Are you unwilling to give me positive feedback[like I gave you]. Are you unable to give me positive feedback[like I gave you]. Think back to when [your store] was a wee baby.. if nobody left feedback it would not have over 4500 positives. Feedback is what makes Ebay “tick”.How would we know who to...
Dec 17th
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Dec 17th
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Dec 16th
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Dec 14th
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The puritanical Perkins found it difficult to mention the obscenities he had to urge Hemingway to omit. He once noted “shit piss fuck bitch” on his things-to-do calendar to remind him to discuss these words with Hemingway during lunch. After Perkins left, Charles Scribner came into his office and was surprised to see these emphatic reminders. When Perkins returned, Scribner said,...
Dec 12th
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Dec 12th
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Dec 8th
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Dec 7th
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Lessons in Professional & Technical Writing
Email No. 1: Greetings Alex, Congratulations to our very first ‘Tis Better to Give winner, ophiraeneas.  We’re sending you a $500 American Express Gift Card! We’re also sending you a basket of delicious holiday cookies from David’s Cookies, because what’s a holiday without goodies? Remember, you don’t have to do anything to participate in the ‘Tis...
Dec 6th
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November 2011
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“But I think everyone now has the (largely mistaken) idea that they can write....”
– Chronicle of Higher Education piece on beginning writers’ response to having their work edited. The pseudonymous editor who wrote this comes off as a little bitter in the way many editors seem to get, and there are a few generational generalizations that I bristled at (and I’m older than her...
Nov 28th
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“Suddenly you notice that the doctor looks vaguely like Vincent Price, and the...”
– Dave Barry on getting a prostate exam (Dave Barry Talks Back - 1991)
Nov 26th
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