January 2010
42 posts
adam banks: still bangin'. →
CARRY ON.
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This is the title of a typical incendiary blog... →
OH JUST READ IT. (or stop two paragraphs in.)
“Dresden is the Blanche DuBois of German cities— violated, complicit in its...”
– George Packer in, yes, The New Yorker.
doree:
When we were in LA last week we went to...
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"west coast non-profiteering" →
that phrase didn’t make the cut, but i’d like to use it anyway so HERE YA GO.
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“Do they make Just Like You dolls with scowls and a Metrocard?”
– as a child of the early 90s, this hot button issue resonates strongly.
how to get the fuck over the most depressing day... →
1. “If you’ve already given up your resolution to eat healthier, arrange to dine out tonight with fat friends.”
2. Force a smile with a pencil: “In 1988, psychologist Fritz Stack asked a group of participants to clench a pencil between their teeth for 20 seconds so that their lips did not touch it, creating the impression of a smile.”
3. “Sounds morbid but,...
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“Magazines are mammalian: warm-blooded, twitchy and dynamic whereas the...”
– julie lasky, giving the best post-mortem yet on I.D. magazine. also, this, HA: “I took a chunk of my risible severance package and bought a David Wojnarowicz photograph of buffalo being driven off a cliff.”
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This is 2K10, y'all, and as someone who's ready... →
“Cavemen don’t eat nightshades.”
– SWEAR TO JESUS.
“With six minutes remaining and the score 24-21, [back-up quarterback] Gilbert...”
– the sidelined quarterback is named colt mccoy, as if his parents had consulted peter berg at birth. alabama 37, texas 21.
“As a backlash to the constant word scroll of new media and its online...”
– Flavorwire’s 2010 and Beyond: Trends in Contemporary Art
Really? You are going to categorize the last 20 years as the time of text? This overgeneralization hurts my brain so much I can’t even think of where to begin. Text definitely has increased in popularity, but if you look back at the growth...
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projecting, much?
A medical expert at the University of Palermo in Italy says that he has also found evidence of medical afflictions in the subjects of some of the world’s most famous paintings, including the Mona Lisa. Among his diagnoses, Dr. Vito Franco said that Mona Lisa may have had high cholesterol, possibly evinced by a buildup of fatty acids under her skin, as well as a benign tumor in her right eye. He...
adventures in photoshopping
plus spewing more warhol trivia.
“[Jeffrey] Deitch will throw any old thing up on the wall. Any. Old. Thing....”
– re: james franco gallery show. brilliant, highbrow.
first email of the new year
Hello Kelvin & Mable,* I sat down earlier to drop you a few lines just at the time when my son, Sherman’s family, came to the door. They had their two small dogs, Labradoodles, with them. Melanie, our youngest daughter, is here with her family and their black Lab. This was their first time to meet so we had plenty of excitement. It has taken some time to get them acquainted and quieted...