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newsweek: It’s Bob Dylan’s world. We just live in it. Bob...

Fri, 24 May 2013 23:21:18 -0400

newsweek:

It’s Bob Dylan’s world. We just live in it.

Bob knows that mentioning a town name is a nice shortcut to authenticityland.

Friday Night Makeover

Fri, 24 May 2013 19:24:06 -0400

Friday Night Makeover

Map from a 1916 book about Africa. Lots of white space.

Sat, 18 May 2013 11:02:09 -0400

Map from a 1916 book about Africa. Lots of white space.

My wife’s autobiography.

Fri, 17 May 2013 20:03:31 -0400

My wife’s autobiography.

"If it’s important that girls of color and girls of different economic classes be able to..."

Mon, 13 May 2013 21:48:00 -0400

“If it’s important that girls of color and girls of different economic classes be able to recognize themselves and find aspirational stories in the Disney Princess line, why shouldn’t it also matter that girls with wild hair and variable body types see themselves there too?”

- Merida from ‘Brave’ gets the Disney princess treatment, ie rib-removal surgery. The point here may be that merchandisers are hacks, whereas film animators are artists.

Attn: People

Sat, 11 May 2013 11:01:08 -0400

Attn: People

Cleveland airport’s wall of stuff fer stabbin’

Thu, 09 May 2013 16:13:59 -0400

Cleveland airport’s wall of stuff fer stabbin’

This is, post-Boston Marathon, one of my new dad fears: That my...

Tue, 07 May 2013 09:03:18 -0400

This is, post-Boston Marathon, one of my new dad fears: That my daughter will someday date a terrorist and turn into an idiot overnight.

(Eats second breakfast)

Thu, 02 May 2013 08:30:19 -0400

Me: "Ooh, eggs sound good!"
Me: "But we just had breakfast in New York."
Me: "But what about second breakfast?"
Me: "I don't think he's heard about second breakfast."

bigdaddydrew: BUY SOMEONE COULD GET HURT Out May 16th,...

Mon, 29 Apr 2013 23:52:57 -0400

bigdaddydrew:

BUY SOMEONE COULD GET HURT

Out May 16th, 2013

Amazon

B&N

Books a Million

Goodreads

iBookstore

Penguin

Powells

TOUR DATES

NOTE: ALL TOUR DATES INCLUDE GOING OUT AND GETTING SHITFACED AFTERWARD

5/20 - Austin, TX (Book People, 7pm)

5/23 - Chicago, IL (Book Cellar, 7pm)

6/3 - Brooklyn, NY (Book Court, 7pm)

6/12 - Brooklyn, NY (Running Late Show at Galapagos Art Space, doors at 7pm, tickets can be purchased here)

6/13 - Cambridge, MA (Harvard Coop, time TBD)

6/14 - Washington, DC (Politics & Prose, 7pm)

9/28 - Baltimore, MD (Baltimore Book Festival)

cc: Brooklyn

patch: Livestream of tonight’s debate between Mark Sanford and...

Mon, 29 Apr 2013 18:48:43 -0400

patch:

Livestream of tonight’s debate between Mark Sanford and Elizabeth Colbert-Bush, begining at 7PM.

About to boot up!

Fight Night! Stephen Colbert’s sister versus disgraced...

Mon, 29 Apr 2013 16:20:44 -0400

Fight Night! Stephen Colbert’s sister versus disgraced former governor, livestreamed here at 7PM.

Kodable Teaches Kids To Code Before They Learn To Read

Tue, 23 Apr 2013 23:54:44 -0400

Kodable Teaches Kids To Code Before They Learn To Read:

Teaching kids to program is a huge trend today, but it’ll be at least 15 years before Kodable’s five-year-old audience enters the workforce. Who’s to say that by the time these kids grow up, programming jobs will still hold the status they do now?

Any parent that teaches their kidnergartner skills in anticipation of the job market 15 years from now should be cracked over the head with a Sit N’ Spin. Interesting idea for an app though.

plittly: bthny: Yeaaaah @hollabackphilly #streetharassment...

Tue, 23 Apr 2013 23:46:18 -0400

plittly:

bthny:

Yeaaaah @hollabackphilly #streetharassment #EndSH

NEED THESE IN NYC STAT

Yes.

Parents: What’s your policy on calling out board game...

Tue, 23 Apr 2013 20:55:54 -0400

Parents: What’s your policy on calling out board game cheaters?

First Lady Michelle Obama visited the Hern family at the Boston...

Thu, 18 Apr 2013 22:47:24 -0400

First Lady Michelle Obama visited the Hern family at the Boston Children’s Hospital Thursday, where 11-year-old Aaron Hern is recovering from a wound inflicted during the Boston Marathon explosions.

(Photo courtesy of the Hern famil)

Tonight in Boston Common.

Tue, 16 Apr 2013 22:38:19 -0400

Tonight in Boston Common.

"Nurse Kim Giroux was working in Medical Tent A at the finish line of the Boston Marathon at roughly..."

Mon, 15 Apr 2013 20:37:00 -0400

“

Nurse Kim Giroux was working in Medical Tent A at the finish line of the Boston Marathon at roughly 2:50 p.m.

She was tending to an Army Veteran who, along with a group of comrades, had just traversed the entire length of the marathon course in full gear, including fatigues, full backpack, combat boots and photos of brothers-in-arms who had never made it back home.

Moments later, back-to-back bomb blasts in Copley Square triggered instincts in both heroes and spurred them to the duties for which they’d been trained.
…
Giroux said the explosion caused the soldier to jump from his stretcher and she had a hard time getting him to stay put. “I said, ‘it’s not your job right now.’ He said, ‘you don’t understand, this is my job,’” she said. “I said, ‘I do understand. But you need to understand that it’s my job to take care of you.’”
…
When children began being brought in for treatment, Giroux turned her attention toward them, putting her skills as a pediatric nurse to good use.
…
When she turned back toward her soldier, he and his comrades were gone. They had left the tent and gone to work in the blast zone, helping with the efforts to clear the area and rescue the injured.

”

- Tewksbury Nurse, ‘It Was Like A War Zone’ - Tewksbury, MA Patch

Bug’s peak estrogen username.

Sun, 14 Apr 2013 10:54:14 -0400

Bug’s peak estrogen username.

A review copy of @drewmagary’s book? I better cancel that Amazon...

Thu, 11 Apr 2013 20:06:00 -0400

A review copy of @drewmagary’s book? I better cancel that Amazon order I put in.

UPDATE: I seem to have soiled myself while reading.