March 2012
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February 2012
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Watch10 seconds of opera on the F train.
““Oh, there’s no gum on the Nike campus,” she informed me, solemnly. “It’s Phil...”
– The Book of Jobs. This is a great bit of analysis, something that comes around every Sunday. But it’s also an essay that ends with a Drew Magary-style CAPS SCREAM, and this is the first time I’ve seen that in a Sunday essay.
(via jamiemottram)
“Technology stories involve blinking lights, whirring sounds, and someone...”
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Mike Daisey’s response to David Pogue’s dispatch on Apple/Foxconn is very much worth reading.
This is fantastic takedown, and a lesson for media folks on the softer end of the spectrum. The same way Pogue’s gadget-centered POV seems a poor match for a story about Apple’s labor...
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“‘I got a hug from someone in PFLAG,’ [Parents and Friends of Lesbians and Gays]...”
– If you hear on the news tonight about a one-person derailment on the R Train line, this Dispatch, about a mom who lost custody of her kids, her church, and her own relationship with her mother after she announced her lesbianism, is the reason. It trainwrecked me to a stupid degree.
The quote was...
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“HuffPost editors will select 24 citizen journalists to cover the Republican...”
– HuffPost Sending Citizen Journalists to the Conventions.
Attention interested Tumblr users interested in citizen journalism: If you’d like to cover the convention in person, you can get enter our contest by using the OfftheBus tag.
(And if you’re interested in applying for...
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“If you’re a smart parent (I’m not), you’ll make sure that there’s no such things...”
– Children’s Music Will Destroy Your Good Taste Forever; Or, How I Came To Like Kidz Bop: We actually raised Bug on Gaga and the Beatles, and we were in the clear for three years plus. Somehow between Christmas and her 4th birthday, the Kidz Bop earworm caught her. We had a good run.
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“Sixteen-year-old Antonia (last name withheld) also runs a popular, photo-based...”
– THE HUNGER TUMBLRS. Not a happy read.
While watching The Dark Crystal this morning
Bug: Daddy, does this movie have any girls in it?
Me: Yes.
Bug: OK.
Me: Is that important now?
Bug: Yes.
Me: Noted.
Hugest Milestone
Bug just told me, for the first time, that I was embarrassing her. She’s four years and seven days old, but she’s groaning at least a sixth grade level.
“Daddy… I just thought of something. Luke Skywalker has to kill his daddy,...”
– Drew McWeeny on his experience watching ‘Revenge of the Sith’ with his kids, who are devastated by the experience.
Via @sarahsprague, who correctly promised that the piece “brings the tears.”
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Damn WIfus is sick so I came home to take care of...