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thedailywhat:

Early Bird Special: Someone’s in the kitchen. It’s a homeless woman named Dinah. She’s been living in the crawl space above your front door for the past two weeks.

You are now checking the crawl space above your front door.

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 Haha! This shit is NUTS!

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girlsgonegoldberg:

“Ain’t Nothing Like You (Hoochie Coo)” by Blakroc (Live on Letterman)

 Does anyone understand how great this is?

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kari-shma

Jay-Z ft. Alicia Keys - Empire State Of Mind

 Oh hell yeah. You know what I love about hip-hop? It makes me want to take over the world.

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thedailywhat:

Movie Trailer of the Day: First official teaser trailer for The Sorcerer’s Apprentice, Jon Turteltaub’s live-action reimagining of Disney’s Fantasia.

The film, which is essentially a front for a two-hour long home movie of Nicolas Cage making unwanted advances of a sexual nature toward your childhood, will hit theaters July 16, 2010.

[via.]


 Ok, Let’s forget about the copious amounts of awful taglines in this trailer. Why was the beginning a complete Dark Knight ripoff?

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Happy birthday to the ground!

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The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum - even encourage the more critical and dissident views. That gives people the sense that there’s free thinking going on, while all the time the presuppositions of the system are being reinforced by the limits put on the range of the debate. ”
—Noam Chomsky (via poortaste)
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klaatu:

Garden Noam Chomsky

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thebloomsburytwo: Nine Stories by J.D. Salinger Publisher: Little Brown - Boston Date: May 1, 1953. There are a lot of you out there with your own Salinger moments.  A time when you were handed one of his books by a friend, or picked up a beaten copy at a book sale.  For me, I was 16 and in love for the first time.  She was much smarter and far better read I was.  One night, as I snuck out of her ground floor bedroom window, she passed me a battered copy of Catcher in the Rye and implored me to read it on the way home.  The maroon cover was folded and worn.  It was about a mile walk from her house to mine.  It was the middle of the night, around 1 or 2 am, and by the time I reached the end of her street I was in love. Snow was falling - that big fluffy snow - and no one was out there but me.  I was alone in the muffled dark winter night, walking and reading.  My path home lead through a small forest of large trees and across a well-lit park where a baseball diamond sat in the far corner.  I stopped and sat in the dugout and read for a couple hours with the snow falling all around.  It was one of those moments.  I could not put the book down. That night was half my life ago now, but after reading A Perfect Day for Bananafish, the first story in Nine Stories, it became vivid all over again.  I had read Franny & Zooey a few years later and didn’t have nearly the same connection to that book.  I re-read Catcher in the Rye a few times and found myself in that group of people who grew up and found Holden whiny and almost unbearable.  That Salinger magic had faded for me until I picked up this book. I’m not qualified to dissect what Salinger does here on a technical level, but there is a certain ease to his writing that I find mesmerizing.  I’m sure a number of you feel the same way.  I’m just disappointed in myself for not picking this book up sooner. - Jon. Eudora Welty’s original NYT review here.  This is not only an elequent review, but a beautiful story. I too have a long love affair with Salinger, but not one near as Intricate and subtle as this.
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thebloomsburytwo:

Nine Stories by J.D. Salinger

Publisher: Little Brown - Boston

Date: May 1, 1953.

There are a lot of you out there with your own Salinger moments.  A time when you were handed one of his books by a friend, or picked up a beaten copy at a book sale.  For me, I was 16 and in love for the first time.  She was much smarter and far better read I was.  One night, as I snuck out of her ground floor bedroom window, she passed me a battered copy of Catcher in the Rye and implored me to read it on the way home.  The maroon cover was folded and worn.  It was about a mile walk from her house to mine.  It was the middle of the night, around 1 or 2 am, and by the time I reached the end of her street I was in love.

Snow was falling - that big fluffy snow - and no one was out there but me.  I was alone in the muffled dark winter night, walking and reading.  My path home lead through a small forest of large trees and across a well-lit park where a baseball diamond sat in the far corner.  I stopped and sat in the dugout and read for a couple hours with the snow falling all around.  It was one of those moments.  I could not put the book down.

That night was half my life ago now, but after reading A Perfect Day for Bananafish, the first story in Nine Stories, it became vivid all over again.  I had read Franny & Zooey a few years later and didn’t have nearly the same connection to that book.  I re-read Catcher in the Rye a few times and found myself in that group of people who grew up and found Holden whiny and almost unbearable.  That Salinger magic had faded for me until I picked up this book.

I’m not qualified to dissect what Salinger does here on a technical level, but there is a certain ease to his writing that I find mesmerizing.  I’m sure a number of you feel the same way.  I’m just disappointed in myself for not picking this book up sooner.

- Jon.

Eudora Welty’s original NYT review here.

 This is not only an elequent review, but a beautiful story. I too have a long love affair with Salinger, but not one near as Intricate and subtle as this.

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nicholealexis: thedailywhat: Photo of the Day: The Hubble Space Telescope’s recently-installed Wide Field Camera 3 captures the deepest view of the Universe to date. “We can now look even further back in time, identifying galaxies when the Universe was only 5% of its current age - within one billion years of the Big Bang,” says Dr. Daniel Stark of the Institute of Astronomy in Cambridge. “These are some of the most distant, and perhaps the most galaxies distant yet seen.” [via.]  She is lovely as well. Jesus, I can’t believe this is real.
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nicholealexis:

thedailywhat:

Photo of the Day: The Hubble Space Telescope’s recently-installed Wide Field Camera 3 captures the deepest view of the Universe to date.

“We can now look even further back in time, identifying galaxies when the Universe was only 5% of its current age - within one billion years of the Big Bang,” says Dr. Daniel Stark of the Institute of Astronomy in Cambridge. “These are some of the most distant, and perhaps the most galaxies distant yet seen.”

[via.]

 She is lovely as well. Jesus, I can’t believe this is real.

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sentencefirstverdictafterwards: suicideblonde: Scarlett Johansson photographed by Tony Duran She is the cutest thing.  She is just so lovely. Isn’t it wonderful when an ugly face can be lovely?
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suicideblonde:

Scarlett Johansson photographed by Tony Duran

She is the cutest thing.

 She is just so lovely. Isn’t it wonderful when an ugly face can be lovely?

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