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David Lynch directs the new Moby video.
David Lynch directs the new Moby video.
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"Until you've lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was." - Margaret Mitchell
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The Eclipsed Celebrity Death Club:
The championship trophy for badly timed death, though, goes to a pair of British writers. Aldous Huxley, the author of Brave New World, died the same day as C.S. Lewis, who wrote the Chronicles of Narnia series. Unfortunately for both of their legacies, that day was November 22, 1963, just as John Kennedy's motorcade passed the Texas School Book Depository. Huxley, at least, made it interesting: At his request, his wife shot him up with LSD a couple of hours before the end, and he tripped his way out of this world. Which, if you're going to go to your reward without anyone's noticing, is probably not a bad way to end it all.
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In an act of hubris, I try to locate meaning for the word "postmodern" over at Jacket Copy today. The piece was originally titled "How Can Bigfoot and My IT Department Both Be Postmodern, Or What Does Postmodern Mean Exactly?"
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"Should we all confess our sins to one another, we would all laugh at one another for our lack of originality." - Kahlil Gibran
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At The Rumpus, Elissa Bassist pays tribute to The Women of McSweeney's. My favorite links would have to be:
Essay Prompts for the 2009 Senior Advanced Placement High School Engish Exam for Women by Wendy Molyneux
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Comments Written by Actual Students Extracted from Workshopped Manuscripts at a Major University collected by Tanya Rey
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These "hastily made Cleveland tourism videos" are comedy gold.
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“Gardens are not made by singing 'Oh, how beautiful,' and sitting in the shade.” - Rudyard Kipling
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Via Luke McKinney at Cracked, what does your tattoo location say about you?

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LA Weekly on the current state of Sunset Junction:
Their message: Either work with the community or stop the festival. Until the permits are issued, the fate of this year’s fair is far from assured. Some think it may not happen at all, and blame decisions that SJNA has — or hasn’t — made. Says Sarah Dale, one business owner twice burned by the alliance: “It’s very hard to negotiate with people who at the end of the day don’t do what they say they’re going to do.”
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Be sure to watch 'til the end...
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Vintage LA tour company Esotouric has launched a new blog to replace the one that got them started. The 1947 Project isn't active anymore, but it was partly responsible for two of my favorite early escapegrace posts: suicidal tendencies circa 1947 and poison is the new black.
The Esotouric blog's first post takes us back to when Raymond Chandler was but a humble creamery bookkeeper.
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"Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of fingers, or fingers at the tip of my words."
- Roland Barthes
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