July 2011
16 posts
the transition between the president’s address and it’s worth whatttt? was priceless.
noir desir / la vent nous portera →
said the gramaphone:
On 27 July 2003, the man who sings this song murdered his girlfriend. This is not a fiction. Bertrand Cantat attacked Marie Trintignant and three days later she died in hospital. He spent 3 years in prison. In 2010, Krisztina Rády, the mother of Cantat’s two children, the woman he left for Trintignant, committed suicide. Cantat was inside the house. An autopsy...
rush to judgement: trying kids as adults / valerie... →
“my next door neighbor was over complaining about someone stealing her clothes...”
– via
bullshit heaven / jed perl reviews the new book on... →
compelling piece about the relevance (and relevance of discussing) of motel artist thomas kinkade:
The love affair between the intellectuals and the trashmeisters, now more than a hundred years old, has just overtaken the man who is by some measures the most popular painter in America. Thomas Kinkade: The Artist in the Mall is an essay collection that exudes a creepy fascination. While a number...
wait for me / motopony [motopony]
“In August 1945, about 500 Manhattan Project alumni founded the Association of...”
– futility closet
this shit / sol [dear friends vol. iii] [d/l]
so far the only feature in osx lion that ive really been using is the tool in preview that allows you to write your signature on a piece of paper, take a picture of it, and embed it into a pdf. on that basis alone: completely sold.
***UPDATE: also, having my g.reader items read to me by a woman with an indian accent.
i don’t like you / max ulis [d/l]
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