December 2011
15 posts
What is really real.
“People hate these shows, but their hatred smacks of denial. It’s all there, all the old American grotesques, the test-tube babies of Whitman and Poe, a great gauntlet of doubtless eyes, big mouths spewing fantastic catchphrase fountains of impenetrable self-justification, muttering dark prayers, calling on God to strike down those who would fuck with their money, their cash, and...
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“In half the stops police cite the vague ‘furtive movements’ as the...”
– Young, Black and Frisked by the N.Y.P.D., an Op-ed in today’s New York Times.
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Jennifer Aniston beat every single famous lady... →
joshsternberg:
This cannot be correct. It was some kind of joke, right? Like when Tumblr goes to Fox News to fix opinion polls?
“Funny is sexy, and Jennifer Aniston is funny,” explains the site of Aniston’s coup. “Her down-to-earth persona makes her seem attainable… And her all-too-human love life off screen inspires sympathy that not even a string of bland romantic comedies can diminish....
How to transition between paragraphs.
“ I hurt the people I cared about, and insulted those I did not. I cut myself off from the one person who was closer to me than any other. I cried until I was not even aware when I was crying and when I was not, I cried in elevators and in taxis and in Chinese laundries, and when I went to the doctor, he said only that I seemed to be depressed, and that I should see a “specialist.” He wrote...
