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Supposedly ‘Even Flow’ is about homelessness—see the lines about ‘a pillow made of concrete’ and ‘ceilings few and far between’—but I hated that the chorus didn’t tell you what ‘even flow’ was supposed to be, and the line about thoughts arriving like butterflies sounded like a bad Natalie Merchant lyric. Still, the video for ‘Even…
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The other thing is that my timing was exquisite, because I opened T.G.I. Friday’s the exact year the pill was invented. I happened to hit the sexual revolution on on the head, and the result was that, without really intending it, I became the founder of the first singles bar. Keep reading. [Via TMN] (via…
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Lapham’s Quarterly: The Staff Recommends
laphamsquarterly: 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…
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spaceminer: 12 Timeless Rules for Making a Good Publication (from the @Atlantic archives via @alexismadrigal)
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loganmsachon: “I know plenty of writers who do live on their credit cards and are alcoholics and are stuck in these dreadful jobs because they have these romantic ideas of being a writer. But they’re broke, and they’re always going to be broke unless they change. I don’t know what other people do financially, but…
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I guess I had that coming.
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Then the inimitable Mike Dang follows up with a spending comparison to the marrieds.
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Money! Voyeurism! The wonderful Doree Shafrir eavesdrops on a serial dater—and tallies the costs—for Bundle.
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At first, Salazar’s scheme was bizarrely complex. Among other things, he arranged for the design of a sealed house near the Nike campus in which athletes would sleep in rooms with varied amounts of oxygen. He also used an obscure computer program from Russia that claimed to measure an athlete’s fatigue level using electrodes that…
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The cost of one man’s Star Wars obsession. The superb Justin Brown examines a life dedicated to Boba Fett, and what it cost him.