February 2012
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Watchnolanews:
“If you didn’t make it to New Orleans for Mardi Gras this year, here’s some of what you missed in the Marigny and French Quarter. Music is by local legend Mr. Quintron featuring the Oblivians.”
“Instead, she’s entered into a space previously occupied by many blues...”
– Ann Powers on Rihanna, NPR
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“A president needs empathy and emotional intelligence, so that he can prevail in...”
– James Fallows - Obama, Explained, the current cover story in the Atlantic. Brilliant insight into the ways in which we historically judge incumbent presidents.
The New Inquiry: Night Moves →
thenewinquiry:
By Christine Baumgarthuber
Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Das Schlaraffenland, 1567
Enviable is the sleeper who sleeps, who sinks into nothingness and remains there for a good seven to ten hours, rising again only with the sun.
Enviable and perhaps contemptible. “I hate a man who goes to…
Thanks, Twain.
“Anthony died as he lived — determined to bear witness to the transformation...”
– Jill Abramson, New York Times executive editor, in her memo to the New York Times newsroom announcing the death of their colleague, Anthony Shadid (via soupsoup)
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“Unless somebody was handing out Xanax with the foam fingers, Lucas Oil Stadium...”
– Sasha Frere-Jones, MIA Shouldn’t Have Apologized
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“‘Brain damage is beautiful,’ my boxing coach told me. ‘You...”
– Hamilton Nolan, on Ken Norton, boxing, and brain damage.