February 2010
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Top five Japanese people I don't mind trading...
via barnsisnoble ::
1) Shugo Tokumaru - musician
2) Haruki Murakami - author
3) Shigeru Miyamoto - video game creator
4) Takeshi Yasutoko - agressive inline skater
5) Takeru Kobayashi - hot dog eating champion
This guy could potentially become my second favorite person on Tumblr, if he keeps this up.
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December 2009
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Balita by Mixkaela Villalon →
3rd place winner in the Essay category for Timpalak Panitik, the UP Filipino Department’s writing contest, this year.
With lots of people on my Dashboard feed busting out New Jack jams and smoothed over 90s hip-hop for YNYL (You Nostalgia, You Lose!), I figure now would be an ideal time to offer a contrarian view. Consider excerpt from Balita, by Mixka Villalon:
Hindi rin talaga ako nahilig...
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Wired editor: "We’re now in a whole new age of... →
Wired editor Chris Anderson (The Long Tail) discusses the shifting nature of outsourced labor, and the creative possibilities it enables ::
Do it yourself, but outsource everything. Yes, that’s contradictory, but the point is that the tools and resources for both self-production and total outsourcing have changed astonishingly since the last time you blinked. Time to relearn them both.
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Welcome to New Dork! →
John Leonard (New York Review of Books) takes on Jonathan Lethem and literary remix culture ::
[Once] there were giants, with magical powers, secret identities, Technicolored underwear, and swishy capes. Male adulthood proved to be much less fun than the masked dreams of pop culture had led little boys to believe. Growing up stunted us. The primary emotions and psychic wounds of the Marvel...
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The Last Viridian Note →
from The Last Viridian Note by Bruce Sterling ::
Do not “economize.” Please. That is not the point. The economy is clearly insane. Even its champions are terrified by it now. It’s melting the North Pole. So “economization” is not your friend. Cheapness can be value-less. Voluntary simplicity is, furthermore, boring. Less can become too much work.
The items that you...
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Ralph Bakshi on the 'Fritz' →
From an interview with cartoonist Ralph Bakshi (Fritz the Cat) in BlackBook ::
BB: Everyone from Quentin Tarantino and Spike Lee to Peter Jackson and Matt Groening claim to have been heavily influenced by your work. How would you like to be remembered as an artist? RB: You do something because you love it, and you do it with everything you’ve got. And then you die. What you leave behind doesn’t...
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“Anybody who comes to the cinema is bringing their whole sexual history, their...”
– David Cronenberg :: via theresearchsociety :: existentializzy
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November 2009
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Bad sex award goes to Jonathan Littell's The... →
from The Guardian, via existentializzy on Twitter ::
The Kindly Ones was originally written in French, where it was published as Les bienveillantes in 2006, and went on to sell more than 1m copies across the continent and win the Prix Goncourt, France’s highest literary honour.
The Goncourt judges were clearly unconcerned by the section which caught the Bad Sex judges’ eye, in which...
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Morrissey: suicide is 'honourable' →
From the Telegraph, via Erwin R.:
Speaking on [Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs], the former frontman of The Smiths, famous for his melancholy lyrics, said that suicide was “an act of great self-control”.
During the programme, which is broadcast on Sunday, Morrissey was asked by the presenter Kirsty Young: “Have you thought about being in control of your death? Have...
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For those who haven't figured it out yet...
Yes, this is a new account. If some of the posts look familiar, it’s because I salvaged them from the last one. (It’s still here, but it won’t be around for very much longer.)
Also, my “pop haiku” will continue to be posted here, albeit in fits and spurts, because that’s how I roll (as the kids like to say).
And now back to your regularly scheduled...
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