January 2011
21 posts
“Me: So then, is the value of having public intellectuals coming out of the...”
– Absolutely lovely review of the Modern Language Association conference in the Awl. The MLA is one of the big humanities conferences (English/lit crit, primarily) and it’s wonderful to see it appreciated by a non-academic. This quote from my friend Kathleen Fitzpatrick (a professor at Pomona,...
Was this a neg?
Well dressed older woman in lobby of my office building: Nice dress. Did you get it at Forever 21?
(The dress in question is a Theory color-blocked baby-doll and I thought it was super cute!)
(Updated to add crappy GPOYW webcam shot of dress/me looking dorky in my office)
"Satire was mostly dead in 2008 and its corpse is... →
maura:
Walkoff Walk, which is a baseball blog run by some smart guys who I like very much, is shutting down at the end of the month, and in this post co-proprietor Rob Iracane broke down how the rise of microblogging might have in part helped hasten the demise of the site—”Heck, our favorite people in the whole world, our thirty-or-so devoted commenters, are very well-represented on the...
I was in the worst mood this morning
And then I started blasting Robyn and Rihanna and now I feel awesome.
Pop music = workahol.
think on this.: Gabrielle Giffords →
barthel:
Because what the shooting solidifies is that the pattern we’d been seeing for a while of violent rhetoric toward Democrats has combined with the racially coded language painting whites as an oppressed minority to effectively radicalize the more vulnerable portions of the right…
“One of the most interesting aspects of fashion in the past ten years has been...”
– Valerie Steel, director of the museum at FIT, quoted in a New Yorker profile about Bottega Veneta’s Tomas Meier.
This is exactly what fascinates me about the “conspicuousness” of today’s consumption and the signaling properties of luxury goods. I could write another 1000...
Watchabbyjean:
it’s been that kind of day, so here’s a video of people getting puppies for christmas!
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“The Forever 21 Retail Inc. owns and operates numerous stores in different...”
– http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forever_21
I’ve long wondered what that “12 x 12” line was, because it’s usually pretty outrageous slutwear. Now I know it’s Los Angeles inspired couture (cough), it all makes sense.
