Just North of Something Important: Archive

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Leonard Cohen - “Hallelujah” (London, 2009) I know I linked my piece on it earlier, but...

Mar 31st

maura: check it out me: who is that? me: is that the guy...

Mar 31st

“In related news, lead Pumpkin Billy Corgan has been demoing...”
— Idolator: Open Calls: Oh, This...

Mar 31st

Idolator: Leonard Cohen Revises "Hallelujah"...

Mar 30th

Idolator: But What Will The Green Day Musical...

Mar 30th

Fluxblog: Ride The Pony

Mar 30th

Just the once, though. Way too reminscent of being a...

Mar 30th

It’s rainy yo.

Mar 30th

Feeling Too Down to Rise Up

Mar 29th

Feeling Too Down to Rise Up

Mar 29th

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Kathy Korniloff - “I Really Can’t Say” This is from a 1991 album called...

Mar 29th

Thesis language

I am somewhat hamstrung writing-wise with my thesis because so much of my rhetorical technique...

Mar 28th

Op-Ed Contributor: Graveyard Myths

Mar 28th

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katstevens: The-Dream ft Mariah Carey - My Love Mariah Law part BREAKFAST! Having scooped her hair...

Mar 28th

There is really nowhere near enough Bloom County online, but...

Mar 27th

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This is an actual song that people like. And they mean it sincerely. I saw them performing it on...

Mar 27th

Audience Estimates For President Obama’s...

Mar 27th

Anger

Rachel also sends on this great quote from the Economist’s article on angry populism: Was...

Mar 27th

Op-Ed Columnist: The Market Mystique

Mar 27th

Someday I will use this, from the aforementioned Republican...

Mar 27th

tofuttibreak: GOP budget update Ha, Rachel thought this...

Mar 27th

tylercoates: goldenfiddle: i rest my case. I’m...

Mar 27th

God, Eric Alterman is such a jackass

Mar 27th

Here is a piece of advice for you all: if you go to buy a...

Mar 27th

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The Evolution Control Committee - “Rocked By Rape” Things Dan Rather said, cut up, over...

Mar 26th

Joe Biden

The Vice President is a good case study in how the right’s political machine is shooting...

Mar 26th

Albany Reaches Deal to Repeal ’70s-Era Drug...

Mar 26th

“None of us should be cheated of our payments any more than a...”
— Dear A.I.G., I Quit! -...

Mar 25th

“Here is the most self righteous, sanctimonious, letter from...”
— Rachel, on Dear AIG, I Quit!

Mar 25th

Above: The public’s conception of how we’ll get...

Mar 25th

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Meow Meow “Cracked,” from Snow Gas Bones (2004) Listening to Cymbals Eat Guitars, I...

Mar 25th

“He does not see social conflict as something to be mediated...”
— Richard Hofstadter, “The...

Mar 24th

“Transportation may have been a wonderful business on rails...”
— Maybe Newspapers Don’t Belong...

Mar 24th

Things we want Obama to do

Don’t give banks any money, since they don’t deserve it. Do make sure banks are stable. ...

Mar 24th

Grasping Reality with Both Hands: The...

Mar 22nd

Fuck Marxism

You were all in favor of the Leninist vanguard until your historical inevitability collapsed and...

Mar 22nd

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ericmortensen: Matrixsynth: Wiener Dog On A Minimoog I would just like to emphasize that this is...

Mar 22nd

You better believe it.

Mar 21st

Wonkette: Mother Jones’ Food Issue Doesn’t...

Mar 21st

Colbert quizzes Syracuse congressman about...

Mar 21st

“Media Hegemony? I don’t know why Chinese government...”
— A Chinese classmate’s...

Mar 21st

White House Memo: As the Public Simmers,...

Mar 21st

Don't Think You Knew You Were In This Song

Mar 20th

St. Vincent at the Central Presbyterian Church in Austin. ...

Mar 20th

Fluxblog: Trying To Decide

Mar 20th

adriennes: The moment we’ve all been waiting for: Details...

Mar 20th

A Conversation with Broadway and Hollywood on...

Mar 20th

One Man Tackles Psychotherapy For The Amish

Mar 19th

Subject: do you watch Gossip Girl?

Mar 18th

Cute things plus Congressional hearings equals my life.

Mar 18th

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Yeah, Matthew was right about “The Desperate Kingdom of Love.”

Mar 18th

Really, Seth McFarland? Really?

Mar 18th

tylercoates: I’d be angry all the time if I was Steve...

Mar 18th

Robert Christgau's review of Marshall...

Mar 18th

“The baby just said her first word: Chewbacca. SRSLY!”
— @doctorow (via whuffie) (via...

Mar 18th

The first edition of the Compact Oxford English Dictionary...

Mar 18th

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wowdemoblog: this whole record was b-a-n-a-n-a-s, but when this popped up as the last track, our cd...

Mar 17th

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The-Dream - “Kelly’s 12 Play” I hadn’t really absorbed the album yet when I...

Mar 17th

Zoilus: A Big Steaming Mug of Ogre Milk

Mar 17th

Gossip Girl tonight...

…was a weird combo of TL:DR and OMG. There increasingly seems to be a disconnect on the show...

Mar 17th

Fluxblog: Suplex Back Breaker

Mar 16th

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emilyposts: Bon Jovi - “Always” Not only do you get a 19-year-old Keri Russell, but you also get...

Mar 16th

One good thing about the recession: no one will be able to...

Mar 15th

What we realized at the bar last night: despite what you may...

Mar 14th

You can stream the whole new album by...

Mar 14th

gospelofmoll: Matt Groening’s Life in Hell See upper right...

Mar 13th

I learned from my Facebook status updates that apparently there was some big basketball game...

Mar 13th

On Jon Stewart & Jim Cramer

So I totes got a PAPER INTO A CONFERENCE about the Daily Show/Colbert, which makes me a RECOGNIZED...

Mar 13th

betelnut: Hey, you know what, FUCK bands that put out an...

Mar 13th

I just figured it out

Atlas Shrugged = The Room

Mar 12th

Rainy Wednesday

Mar 11th

Signs I made the right career choice

I have really enjoyed spending the last 4 hours looking through scholarly articles, trying to find...

Mar 11th

“You don’t have to be an Old Testament prophet to see...

Mar 11th

Reason: Rorschach Doesn't Shrug: The...

Mar 10th

On "Stairway to Stardom"

Rachel: Oh my God, why doesn’t this show exist now? Me: Eh, it would just be overrun by...

Mar 10th

Kind of a mind fuck

In June, 1992, Wallace set out for Syracuse. The rents were cheap, and Wallace wanted to put the...

Mar 9th

“The gist: Apparently, Radiohead are the only band in the...”
— Ryan Dombal, Pitchfork news...

Mar 9th

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FDR: the Jon Stewart of 1936.

Mar 8th

No I did not, but tell me more!

Mar 7th

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In honor of Watchmen. (OK, I just happened to be rewatching this for something totally unrelated...

Mar 6th

Ratings Scales, Popism, Metacritic

Mar 6th

Hallelujah Watchmen

Mar 5th

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Truly, we are living in the golden age of user-generated content.

Mar 5th

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Here is a video of “Rock Me Amadeus” mixed with clips of Egon from “The Real...

Mar 5th

I am beginning to sense a pattern here

NYT: In a 2004 book, Prof. David M. Cutler, a health economist at Harvard, said, “The history of...

Mar 5th

The Promise of Fairness

jeffmiller: squashed: jeffmiller writes: Apparently, it is now unfair to talk about...

Mar 5th

In a Shift, House Republicans Take On Obama

Mar 5th

Let's Give Carl Wilson 'The Colbert...

perpetua: Carl Wilson, one of the best music critics in North America, appeared on last night’s...

Mar 5th

Mmm doughnut

Mar 5th

I don’t think Michelle would be very happy if he did!

Mar 5th

“Selfhood has its own berth now in the psychiatrist Abraham...”
— Sandra Tsing Loh revisits Paul...

Mar 5th

All a matter of perspective, I guess!

Mar 4th

shotformeat: Link… and Link! Yes! Bristol 2008 Oh, amazing.

Mar 4th

Our Courts - Play Games

Mar 4th

Close but no cigar, Google.

Mar 4th

The Aquatarium, aka Shark World.

Mar 4th

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filigree: Here, have some fainting goats. (At :50 they all fall down.) Not as good as the...

Mar 4th

Florida's Lost Tourist Attractions

Mar 4th

spiegelman: The stimulus package gets a logo. This emblem...

Mar 3rd

I was unaware you could fit so much DO NOT WANT into a...

Mar 3rd

Behind the Open Door, an Exercise in Politics...

Mar 2nd

See, Fiddy, if you weren’t so out of touch, you could...

Mar 2nd

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This really is a good song.

Mar 2nd

Idolator: A Brief Tribute To "Ball-Hog Or...

Mar 2nd

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Thurston Moore meets Mike Watt. Wait for it.

Mar 2nd

Idolator: Bono Has An Identity Crisis

Mar 2nd

Short ribs stew.

Mar 2nd

X-Entertainment: The Worst Breakfast Ever

Mar 1st