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"But go with friends, because you’ll make none here. The bar and restaurant were filled with yupster trash people and it took three drinks to dull the pain of all their overheard conversations. But also that’s every restaurant now, and you can’t stay in and cook every night, so buckle down. Everyone in the world’s conversation sounds like a nightmare out of context; take deep breaths and try to stay positive, because we will all be dead soon."
— Max Silvestri on the Brooklyn Crab Shack. There goes summer, but so goes my life
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Notes"THE PRESIDENT: This does also remind me of the season that we’re in. Jim Messina tells this story, my campaign manager — he was in some event, and this young couple who was there with their adorable four-year-old son, and I guess there was a picture of me somewhere, and so they were very excited. They said, ‘Sammy, who’s that?’ And he said, ‘That’s Barack Obama.’ ‘And what does Barack Obama do?’ And the boy thinks for a second and he says, ‘He approves this message.’"White House Press Office, Remarks by the President at a Campaign Event, July 30, 2012 7:56:22 PM CDT (via anamariecox)
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“…pardon me if I remain skeptical of those who would have us believe that Jay-Z and West make revolutionary art. Do they make music that is fun to dance to and contains occasional references to politics? Absolutely. But if they are revolutionaries, then let us marvel at what a difference 50 years makes: Hampton and Newton wielded guns in the name of class war, while today’s black militants are millionaires with music-video budgets who film fake revolutions in places where real revolutions once took place.”
—Cord Jefferson, via Gawker’s What’s 50 Grand to a Revolutionary Like Me?: Watch the Throne and the New Black Power
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Notes"If a child is struck and killed by a car in 2012, it is treated as a private loss, to be grieved privately by the family,” Norton says. “Before, this stuff was treated as a public loss – much like the death of soldiers.” Mayors dedicated monuments to the victims of traffic crimes, accompanied by marching bands and children dressed in white, carrying flowers."A fascinating history of pedestrian deaths, and how they were effectively decriminalized by the auto industry
The Invention of Jaywalking - Commute - The Atlantic Cities
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What Would You Be Willing to Sacrifice?
by Trent Gilliss, senior editor
“This project isn’t about making images. It’s not about creating the world’s largest camera. It’s about doing what you love. If you had been searching your whole life for something you love, what would you be willing to sacrifice?” ~Ian Ruhter, from Silver & Light
I can’t remember watching something so heartbreakingly gorgeous, unswerving in its emotional sway, inspirational to the point of forcing me to wonder about my current station in life. What am I doing here?
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Notes"I still read some bloggers but it’s sort of a lost art. There aren’t new great bloggers. It’s not the next thing. But the generation of Choire Sicha, Micky Kaus, Andrew Sullivan and Josh Marshall are great and they never stopped being great. Andrew is no longer the conservative he once was but he and Josh are masters of the medium."I’ve been saying this for a while; there’s a pretty strong case to be made that Twitter killed the blog.
Ben Smith: What I Read - Business - The Atlantic Wire
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“When wines taste of honey they seem to taste of sunlight itself, a brightness that coats the mouth with a satin warmth and gently tugs at the heart like a summer breeze.” - Alder Yarrow
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TIME’s 2011 Person of the Year is The Protester
