January 2012
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Stay Classy, Connecticut
bmichael: NYT: [East Haven Mayor Joseph] Maturo was being interviewed by New York’s WPIX-TV about alleged anti-Hispanic bias in East Haven, a shoreline town bordering New Haven and the subject of a federal civil rights probe that was launched in 2009. The four officers arrested Tuesday are charged with depriving the civil rights of Latinos and their supporters, including by unlawfully...
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Up From Flames →
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the BLAAAHg: the Death of Modernism →
blaaahg: “The Pruitt-Igoe Myth tells the story of the transformation of the American city in the decades after World War II, through the lens of the infamous Pruitt-Igoe housing development and the St. Louis residents who called it home. It began as a housing marvel. Built in…
Jan 12th
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ListenAlex Chilton - I Wish I Could Meet Elvis I...
Jan 12th
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Dinosaur Feathers had their equiment stolen - Keep... →
Hello friends - Some time between Tuesday night (1/10) and Wednesday morning (1/11), someone broke into our van in Bushwick and stole just about all of our equipment. This is the list of our gear that is now missing. We’re working through all the proper channels (police, insurance company, etc.) to figure out what we do from here, but if you have any information about any of this...
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December 2011
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I have been taking pictures with my dad’s old Canon AE-1 again, which has reminded me how much I enjoy using a camera. As a result, I have decided to keep taking many pictures on film but to also splurge on a DSLR and take even more pictures with that. This may turn into one of those Tumblrs of somebody who has a semi-decent camera and therefore thinks they are a photographer and posts a lot...
Dec 27th
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Today in Facebook unfriending because sometimes...
The girl with the wall consisting of photos with shirtless Hollister models and a post calling for the need to “save intellectualism” citing a discussion about Jay-Z on NPR as evidence of its imminent death.
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November 2011
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While in college we started a lot of “traditions.” Like many things we did in college they were usually fun but also pretty dumb. One of these was a The Holiday Season kick off event. It was Boobs and Booze. We drank booze and watched the Victorias Secret Fashion Show. It was very high concept. The first year it was more of a party. To most it was an excuse to drink on a weeknight. College kids...
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There are things from Thanksgiving visits to the town you grew up in you think could make a good story to “blog about” but some of them involve people who unexpectedly follow your small “internet presence” and some of them who also made weird semi-negative comments about things you support but you are unsure whether or not you should actually write about them because maybe...
Nov 26th
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WatchWatch
this video, “The Maxines at Olympia Timberland Library 24 Hour Zine Thing event, July 2011”, will make you smile.
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ListenBig Star - Don’t Lie to Me ...
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I don’t think I am going to bother reading that and forming actual opinions. Because.
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“48. Gerry McNamara (Syracuse, 2002-2006): There have been many players better...”
– Chuck Klosterman, on the 50 Greatest College Basketball Players of All Time I disagree with a few names on this list (isn’t that the point), but this is a nice entry. (via thefeeling) Reblogging to add more thoughts (of a UConn fan) after a brief scan of this list. Khalid El-Amin, while the...
Nov 4th
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