November 2010
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Want To Make A Rap Song Out Of The Rolling Stones'... →
Listen to this vocals-only track of the Rolling Stones song “Gimme Shelter.” Listen to the part that comes around 2 minutes and 50 seconds in, when back-up singer Merry Clayton is singing. Is the hair on your arms standing up? No? Then you don’t have hair on your arms. Or arms.
It’s true! It works!
Andrew Rice's Top 5 Longreads of 2010 →
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Andrew Rice is a contributing writer for New York Times Magazine.
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Longreads: Now on Tumblr + Share Your Top 5 of...
A couple notes:
1. Longreads is now on Tumblr. Follow away.
2. The wonderful Michelle Legro of Lapham’s Quarterly (see below) has helped kick off a list-filled December. Post your own Top 5 Longreads of 2010, and we’ll reblog them.
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Michelle Legro is an editor for Lapham’s Quarterly (who you should be following on Tumblr!)
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If you aren’t one of the...
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“Supposedly ‘Even Flow’ is about homelessness—see the lines about...”
– The Onion A.V. Club: Whatever Happened to Alternative Nation? 1992, Seattle and Pearl Jam
“The other thing is that my timing was exquisite, because I opened T.G.I....”
– Keep reading. [Via TMN] (via frontofbook)
Lapham's Quarterly: The Staff Recommends →
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Lest you think that the Lapham’s Quarterly Tumblr is run by the Cicero5000, the world’s first trans-century automaton, there is actually a full-blooded human at the helm (also found here and here) who would like to recommend the following excellent Tumblrs:
The Atlantic think’s it’s soooo…
Bless you, Cicero5000.
If you’re not following, recommending and putting...
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“At first, Salazar’s scheme was bizarrely complex. Among other things, he...”
– Didn’t he see Rocky IV? 