January 2010
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826LA Echo Park Adult Writing Seminar Series:... →
Join us for a panel discussion featuring some of the best hired hands in the business. Four freelance writers will share stories and advice about writing for various publications including newspapers and magazines. They will discuss their inspirations, how to turn an idea into a story, and how to get hired.
February 4th. It’s $25 + service fee, but sounds like a pretty good event.
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“You see, one of the many delightful things he has noticed about women is that...”
– The Secret Lives of Married Men. There, I just saved you five pages of sexism and cowardice.
Any article that reminds you of cliche stand-up doesn’t need to be read. And any dude who can’t tell his partner he wants to have a guys night shouldn’t be married.
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“Could I, would I, have taken a man’s life, just because he was the enemy? Could...”
– DHK linked to an article on American snipers in which William Langewiesche again demonstrates why I consider him the finest narrative journalist writing today. In this short piece, he draws out what intrigues us about a sniper: he is one of the few remaining sorts of soldier who really sees those he...
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Sources of Inspiration
Following my idea to more frequently listen to famous speeches, I asked the knowledgeable and trustworthy S. Twelfth for his suggestions and they should be noted here for you:
Your question on speeches was excellent and unexpected. I gave it some thought, so I hope these will be of use to these. These are all amazing, beautiful speeches that occurred to me. I’ve put them in order of my...
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“Think about the discipline it would take to make a living as an elite star of a...”
– I’ve linked to it already, but I finally got a chance to read the entire piece last night on the train ride home. This is the first piece I’ve read by Jason Fagone, and I have to say, this guy can write. There are about a dozen “holy shit” sentences in this piece. It has just the right amount of...
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The Gettysburg Address, as read by Jeff Daniels.
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spike jonze made a short film about robots →
areyoucallingmefat:
he shot parts of this in my apartment building over the summer! based on the 60 or so crew members and the size of the 8 trucks he had parked on poinsettia and hawthorn, i thought they were shooting where the wilder things are. as i hopped over cables and avoided klieg lights on the walk to my actual apartment, i was shocked when someone from the set told me it was a short…
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Desperation Times
Alright Tumblrverse, I’m unemployed and I need a job and I’m good at being on the computer for long periods of time, and I’m pleasant, and will do whatever and it’s at the point where I’ll do whatever, so does anyone have anything they’ll pay me to do? Or know of anything outside of the sex industry? You think I’m joking but I’m not.
So?
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Like there was ever a chance of real communication
Remember that time you were at the Cha Cha Lounge with your awesome friends who aren’t on tumblr and make fun of you for constantly blogging? And then you kept staring at this girl who looked really familiar and then her friend who also looked familiar and you realized it was Molls and Ed (who is more than just kinda fabulous, he’s totally fabulous if he’s anything. Nicest guy...
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i attended la's downtown art walk last night
heidigarvin:
areyoucallingmefat:
heidigarvin:
areyoucallingmefat:
this was my first art walk and boy was it a lot of fun. i so rarely go downtown, but it’s really the only time LA ever feels like a city. tall buildings, cabs galore, people cruisin’ the sidewalks…it was awesome. and we took the subway!
i only managed to get into 5 or 6 galleries and while i wasn’t particularly moved by any...
“Woah, woah, woah. I don’t drunk-text ex-girlfriends. I drunk-text FUTURE...”
– The sad truth.
“I think it’s only in a crisis that Americans see other people.”
– Don DeLillo (via sometimesagreatnotion)
duuuuuuuuuuuuuude
I can’t catch up on tumblr cuz of the pbrrrrrrs
Facebook is redirecting to MySpace
This is the funniest thing to happen on the internet in like three hours!
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It takes work
My friend Ashley wanted to disagree with me on some of what I said in this post, which I had deleted because soon after I posted it I felt dumb, but maybe it’s not dumb. Or it still is. Anyway, you can read it.
I was so close to reblogging this and saying how it isn’t true, because people like what is put in front of them because it is easy, because they don’t have to stop to look up...
I will be in attendance. →
6od:
Never been to the Downtown LA Art Walk. Also, I’ve never seen Star Wars.
I’ll be getting one of those two things done tonight.
The Art Walk is good things. It is fun and “cultured” without being a museum, and you get to see cool art and weird art and art you “don’t get” (which is ok, or maybe sometimes the point!), and so you should go, if you’re...
"Consider it my pure but well-founded speculation... →
southtwelfth:
Jonathan’s first-person account of the earthquake from Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Very powerful.
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HAITI.
servemyworldblog:
“I wish I could, but I have no money and no job so I can’t donate.” Years ago this is what I would have said regarding this crisis (I was very selfish). When I used to say “I have no money” it meant I really have a little bit but would rather spend it on other things (myself). Not anymore folks! Not today! I just donated. Please donate. Even if you can only donate $5, very...
Google, Citing Cyber Attack, Threatens to Exit... →
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soupsoup:
Google threatened late Tuesday to pull out of its operations in China after it said it had uncovered a massive cyber attack on its computers that originated there.
As a result, the company said, it would no longer agree to censor its search engine in China and may exit the country altogether.
Additionally, they changed their “Do no evil” line to “Do...
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Google, Citing Cyber Attack, Threatens to Exit... →
soupsoup:
Google threatened late Tuesday to pull out of its operations in China after it said it had uncovered a massive cyber attack on its computers that originated there.
As a result, the company said, it would no longer agree to censor its search engine in China and may exit the country altogether.
Additionally, they changed their “Do no evil” line to “Do evil until...
HEY, LOS ANGELES: Let's do a tumblr talent show?
thefeeling:
natashavc:
If I get us a venue that serves booze and some dope writers/performers to do a reading/storytelling/performances on a theme would you come? Just for kicks (and a low cover to pay the cost of the venue)?
I would happily attend something like this, but sadly, I have no talent. Not even for blogging. Also, it would be best if this event were held after January, for...
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On saturday the 30th I will be going to Medievial...
telllaurailoveher:
with steve agee, delbert shoopman and chad fogland for jillians bday. It will be the most name-droppy birthday EVER and my balls ache in excitement.
That’s MY birthday!
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List for a Decade: Chris
brightwalldarkroom:
My most important films of the decade (in order, but not in an order that can’t be completely rearranged at any given point).
by Chris Cantoni
Traffic (2000)
I can’t tell you. I can’t tell you how important this movie is to me. It probably doesn’t belong at the top of this list. Plenty of people don’t think it deserves mention on any decade list. But Traffic left...
There was a certain way she handled my debit card
I was watching the barista through the gap under the espresso machine, avoiding for a moment, each moment longer and longer, the work I had come here to do. I could just see the six inches spanning her waist as she flowed back and forth behind the counter.
Between her tight, low-rise jeans and the yellow baby tee deliciously hugging her torso, a decent (not indecent) amount of skin winked at me...
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The last time I checked
We don’t have a whole lot of songs that feature the cowbell.
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The Filmosophy debacle finally showed me a purpose...
And I’ve never been a fan of Reply-All until having a large conversation and want everyone’s input and they can Reply-All to me any time and I will love it. It was seriously wonderful reading everyone’s emails (that sounds terrible out of context).
and OMG marginal gloss was absent and I was like “oh man, where’s the big MG? He’s usually involved in these...
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sometimesagreatnotion:
I just got a notice from Tumblr that Filmosophy will be taken down within the next 48 hours unless we change the name and url. Apparently, the name itself was already copyrighted by a guy in California, and he is threatening legal action if Tumblr doesn’t take it down or have us change the name - which, obviously we will. However, this means a HUGE headache for me, and...
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Seth Grahame-Smith, this has to stop. →
bibliotheque:
bookshares:
I know zombies and vampires are kind of hot right now, and we all need to pay bills, but please, please, for my health and well-being if not your own, can you reconsider the path you’re choosing?
(link via bmckinney)
That link didn’t work for me so I changed it.
In the meantime, I wonder if this gave him a hacking cough. Get it? Because he’s- oh get...