February 2012
Someone Asked Me To Say Something About Lana Del...
LANA DEL RAY is the music industry’s SARAH PALIN. The more you try to
understand what is going on, the more you can’t. And only then do you
realize that THERE IS NOTHING TO UNDERSTAND.
The argument in her case is about authenticity, I guess, because some
of her behavior seems to be an act. A THING LIKE THAT, huh? A musician
is making something up about themselves? STOP THE...
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Let Me Endorse A Record
That I have probably endorsed before: Okkervil River’s I AM VERY FAR.
I am blaring it at work right now while I work my way through a very
long data file, and I am FEELING IT.
This record sounds like getting invited to a party by some hot
wiccans, but then just like, pounding beers by the bonfire with their
relatively normal boyfriends.
MY KIND OF NIGHT, IN OTHER WORDS.
I graduated magna cum laude with a degree in political science. I have
like, fluency in explaining the historical debates over and nuances of
presidential war powers. I can hold forth on the subject of
objectivity—especially if you give me 20 minutes to skim THAT NOBLE
DREAM beforehand. I was also once told that I had a fluent grasp of TS
Eliot’s The Waste Land. I did pretty damn...
What’s funny is I email these posts in, and I have no idea if they are
even posting or if they are posting in order or anything. I’m
TUMBLRING INTO THE VOID. I only have email and news sites at work.
It’s 1996 over here. LITERALLY: using Internet Explorer). zaclittle at
gmail, by the way, holler at me.
Oh my god and the PEOPLE who say religion “make[s] our civil society
function”—that’s Grace-Marie Turner at the National Review—what I
always wonder is, is the only thing stopping Grace-Marie Turner from
going on a murder spree the fact that God doesn’t want her to? Is that
the only thing holding her together? If there were no religion, would
these people...
Support, not surprisingly, is fairly broad among most groups. The only
constituency opposed to the coverage in this poll was self-identified
white evangelicals-STEVEN BENEN, on the new White House contraceptive
rule (“requiring health insurance plans sponsored by
religious-affiliated employers to provide contraception as part of
their basic benefit package”)
(THINK ABOUT WHAT IT...
My personal view, in my heart of hearts, is that people who are
subject to rape should have the option of having emergency
contraception or emergency contraception information - MITT ROMNEY,
2005
I want you guys to know that coming up with the title “Lord, Sext Me Strength” was the most significant thing I did at work today.
The Amazing Self-Destruction Of The Amazing...
Sic temper douchebags
Watchthemildrevolution:
This is a Really Great Video. Captures the mood of our live performances pretty well.
“King Sham” By The Mild Revolution
LIVE @ THE NIGHT OWL CAFE.
Shot by Dan Callahan.
Reblog if you feel so inclined.
<3 TMR
ROCK.
YO IT'S SKINS RECAP 3 GUYS GO CHECK IT OUT →
Things I Do At Work
One. Work
Two. This
Words that don’t rhyme with orange:
Moron
Arrange
Lauren
LeBron
Gaunt
Boring
Oracle
L’Oreal
Ordeal
Rage
Mangy
Age Range
Glory
Forage
Foliage
Caloric
Ornament
Orient
Old Lint
Beckon
Exorbitant
More Of It
Gorgeous
Marriage
Barrage
Mirage
Insurance
Blur The Lines
Assonance
Paralysis
Indie Bar Fight Playlist
“Trains” - Ryan Adams and The Cardinals
“Theme From ‘Cheers’” - Titus Andronicus
Possible Additions
“Actor Out Of Work” - St. Vincent
“The City Has Sex” - Bright Eyes
“Crown On The Ground” - Sleigh Bells
“The Old Days” Dr. Dog
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In Which I Continue To Have Issues With The Hunger...
Catching Fire had done little so far other than enrage me. After several encounters of the vaguely racist kind in District 11, Suzanne Collins clearly decides she is not up for the task of describing the other districts. So the entire tour (which was basically the entire premise of this book so far) blurs by in a few paragraphs, in what literally reads like an outline for a book. I’m...
The Internet makes everything more extreme, and eventually to keep getting more extreme you have to ditch irony and cynicism.
And at first that seems like a good thing—John Green famously likes to point out that nerdfighters get to unapologetically like things.
But irony and cynicism are also shields, or they can be, and the lack of irony and cynicism and the accompanying self esteem...
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Reblog if you love Bon Iver but have no idea what...
don’t you cherish me na see
ahhh ohh oh oh
never keeps your eyelids clis
ho me for the popsicles
i was only fort a father’s cress
hell
mo long a lone
you nickle till your shoulder bleeds
ahhh ah ah ah
always keep that bears age tape
cross your breasts you own a race
i was only for you very speds
hill
a blog muffin
propped up by your ugger bun
fay swayed from the sun...
THE AVENGERS SUPERBOWL SPOT
IF YOU THOUGHT SPIDER-MAN THREE PACKED AS MUCH INTO A MOVIE AS WAS POSSIBLE, THINK THE FUCK AGAIN MOTHERFUCKER
And if y'all have more lengthy stuff to say re:...
you can talk to me here: http://zacharylittle.blogspot.com/2012/02/john-browns-body-lies-mouldering-in.html
Anonymous asked: Re On Catching Fire and Racism. When I read the series I thought District 11 sounded like slavery, but I didn't picture it as a completely black district. that passage taken out of context sounded totally racist. The "little black birds" comment sounds really bad, except that Katniss describes EVERYTHING as animals. Prim is a duck, Fox face runs off to her den. Cameras are...
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ON CATCHING FIRE AND RACISM
I tried to forget, while I was reading the description of District 11 (this is like chapter 4 of Catching Fire), that the actors playing Thresh and Rue are black. Because it’s basically a slavery/prison colony. High fences, brutal guards (wearing white!), people hurting their backs working in the fields.
I started thinking Suzanne Collins never said they were black Suzanne Collins never...
