May 2012
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“Today, we celebrate the 35th anniversary of a movie few will ever see again.”
– Cade Metz | Wired
“And I look down to see the people that are governing me and making my rules, and...”
– Bob Dylan, 1963
“Unless you’ve recently had a bag on your head to be specially renditioned,...”
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The opening sentence says it all.
shitmystudentswrite:
Throughout the history of humanity, there have been great changes in human history that greatly affect the role of all humans directly or indirectly.
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Shit My Students Write: The dream of the 90s →
shitmystudentswrite:
Within the 20th century, the ‘90s were hands down the greatest decade for a boy to be born and raised through. The pop-culture and technology was simply at its prime. We’ll start from the beginning. What do kids at the age from just being born to about six years old care about? That’s simple, breast milk; but more importantly, toys. Although the breast milk in the 90s was...
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“We don’t look like people who have won a war. We look like scared, fearful,...”
– Fareed Zakaria, U.S. has made war on terror a war without end (via brooklynmutt)
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April 2012
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one of my all-time favorite columbia bands…
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“Here’s a window into a tragedy within the American military: For every soldier...”
– New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof • In an opinion piece on the death of soldiers after they return home. A few other key stats — more former soldiers have committed suicide after returning home than died in combat in Afghanistan and Iraq combined, being a veteran doubles the risk of suicide,...
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“We exist in the minds of other people, in thousands of memory clusters, and one...”
– This Roger Ebert quote reminds me of the plot to Kevin Brockmeier’s “The Brief History of the Dead.” Great book.
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“The label is a McGuffin. It’s just a tool to propel us into the next zone. There...”
– Jack White | “Jack White Is the Coolest, Weirdest, Savviest Rock Star of Our Time”
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March 2012
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“Let us begin our activism right here: with the money-driven villainy at the...”
– “The White Savior Industrial Complex,” by Teju Cole | The Atlantic
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“What was an experience becomes a dream and then a memory. I cannot see the edges...”
– Excerpt from “Perdido Street Station” by China Mieville
February 2012
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