August 2011
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“Corporations are getting better and better at seducing us into thinking the way...”
– David Foster Wallace, The Pale King (via nevver)
Zombie DFW for President
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something old NOTHING NEW: A mutually beneficial... →
ohbethany:
My very nicely dressed friend Bec is buying no new clothes for a year and blogging about it here: somethingoldnothingnew. The year’s just started, and she just had a clothes swap that I am sad that I didn’t make it to but was busy staring at a baby.
But! “Incidentally, there’s three enormous bags of stuff left over,” she says, “which we’ll probably be flogging at Newtown Markets...
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“Welles once told Cahiers du cinéma about sex in film, “In my opinion,...”
– Orson Welles’ wiki page
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“An oft-told anecdote (and the where-were-you-when-Kennedy-was-shot story to top...”
– Great little profile on a once-famous JFK impersonator who, unsurprisingly, went out of business right about that moment. The comparison between his JFK voice and JFK’s JFK voice is particularly revealing.
Dead Comedian Of The Week: Vaughn Meader, Assassination Victim
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