April 2010
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one forty plus.: Twitter Isn't "Over", I'm Over... →
This is where Tumblr comes in. It’s the future of social networking if your image of the future features intelligent discourse. I love reading other Tumblr users replies, because they’re thoughtful by virtue of the fact that if they’re not, they’ll bring the intellectual property value of their own blog down, and that’s a commodity on Tumblr.
Wait, I think John Mayer just separately derived...
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Watchaaaaaaaaaauuuuuuuuuuuuugggggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhh
Isn’t this, like, 10 years too late (via Sex and the City)?
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I’m sure if my dinner tonight (tuna salad + pasta) was featured in a cookbook with a name like Cooking on the Cheap! or The College Student’s Guide to Dorm Food! or Small Budget, Big Appetite it would be cute.
But I’m calling it out for what it is: sad.
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Average visitor to my Gaga reply today stayed for 4 minutes, 20 seconds.
4/20/10 - Pageview Holiday
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Two emails.
(This is about this.)
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FROM: MARK DERY
TO: Steve Spillman
Steve: Since you site doesn’t enable comments (why not, I wonder?), I’m going to have to respond by mail. If you’d like to post this, you have my blessing.
I’m on deadline, and so must be brief. First, if you’re going to cross-promote your post via Boing Boing and True/Slant and who knows where else,...
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TO: Lord Dery. SUBJECT: A [brief] [dumb] defense...
So I just read something by someone I really admire and often agree with that made me uncomfortable. I feel weird. Disorganized thoughts about this follow.
Mark Dery (former professor - my professor - at NYU’s Arthur L Carter Journalism Superschool of Real Important People) did this ridiculously long, very smart, very namedroppy piece on why the hype around Lady Gaga (remember it?!) is...
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-4-18) →
LCD Soundsystem (39)
Fang Island (18)
MGMT (4)
Caribou (1)
Dirty Projectors (1)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Watchputthison:
Put This On, Episode 2: Shoes
iTunes / Vimeo / YouTube Clothing Credits Funding Credits Related Posts
someday i will have money
“Talk about defining deviancy down. What beige days we live in, when mentioning...”
– Cultural critic (and my former professor) Mark Dery showed up late for the Lady Gaga debate and ended up shouting to an empty room (but I hear True/Slant has no editors), long after the crowd dispersed, like some deranged End of Days homeless veteran of the Culture Wars. He’s not wrong.
I’ll go...
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list a: recent products that are emblematic of a “broad societal change,” whatever that means.
iPhone
Twitter
Foursquare
app markets
open source software
microbreweries
Google Maps
iTunes —> “single” culture
tumblr
online banking
DVR
social entrepreneurship
Skype
list b: cultural products which are great, or at least nice diversions, but probably...
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"the cultural dominance of gay men ends" →
daveholmes:
And at :58, the cultural dominance of gay men ends, not with a bang, but with a 25-year-old Madonna reference.
Get with the program, gays. I want to root for the home team, I really do. But jokes about swallowing are exactly as fresh as Cypress Hill releasing their new album on 4/20. (Okay, B-Real. You like weed. Message received.)
This is some tired, lazy bullshit. Where is the...
Twit to poem
I was going to make
a lil’ joke
about the lipstick on
your cheek
but
then I realized
it’s bad acne scars from
your youth
(ahem)
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WatchI really don’t like Shakira’s voice much at all but this song is a doozy. (link)
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WatchThis is a “funny” “vlog” filled with “jokes” for “tweens,” I guess.
Tweens are weird.
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Watchwelivewithyou:
season two, episode one: many trials
we try out a bunch of stuff.
and this is the best episode ever.
no kidding.
my podcast with my bff/roommate jen bokoff is back for season 2.
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-4-4) →
Fang Island (57)
MGMT (32)
Titus Andronicus (12)
Discovery (10)
Das Racist (5)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Erykah Badu - Turn Me Away (Get MuNNY)
The...
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You want change?
You got it, punk.
Dowser is a new site run by David Bornstein, who you should google. It’s all about positive, solution-based stories of change and social innovation, and it’s really great.
I write blog posts and follow the social innovation conversation on Twitter for them. So you’re gonna love it. Enjoy.
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via dansai via email
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WatchLloyd has a cat that has a video podcast. On this episode the cat creates a chillwave song.
It’s great.
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A few ideas for performance art pieces inspired by...
1. “Material Space”
Duration: Varies
I stand in an entirely white room, wearing six or seven layers of thick, handmade clothing of all colors. The audience is kept at something of a distance as I strip every last bit of clothing from my body and throw it all onto the ground. When I am naked, I bury myself in the clothing and invite the audience to take all of it home with them. By...
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Popping the iPad hype balloon →
This is the side I’m on. I decided. NO iPAD PLEASE. Choire for internet president.
Why is this day different from all other days?
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Think I'm quitting Tumblr.
Just kidding! No I’m not! April Fool’s Day y’all!