Making the Skeleton Dance

BLOGGING via TYPEWRITER.: To everyone writing me to let me know that not all conservatives should be painted with a broad brush:

Hey — where are you guys speaking out forcefully and fanatically against the radical elements of your party?

I’m just wondering, because Rush Limbaugh is still on the air and Glenn Beck still has people paying to watch his drivel on the Internet and, oh yeah, you really believe Fox “News” is…

spectercollective:

Nobel Laureate Toni Morrison was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom today.

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imwithkanye:

Destiny’s Child vs. Nirvana | Smells Like Bootylicious

[summer jam]

Omnivoracious: Summer Reading Lists Are Here

aaknopf:

harperbooks:

The New York Times offers an eclectic list of books to read, ranging from an autobiographical pop culture read to a serious history of digital computers.

NPR did something interesting with their summer reading list. They had indie booksellers make the picks.

USA Today goes interactive with their picks.

The Wall Street Journal put out a well-chosen summer reading list.

USA Today goes interactive with their picks.

Entertainment Weekly had perennial best seller Jennifer Wiener pick the list.

Huffington Post suggested summer books for kids.

The Chicago Tribune offers thrillers for standing in line at Six Flags Great America .

The Birmingham News went literary.

Last summer my eyes were bigger than my tote bag and it took me the rest of the seasons to get through my own list. These will definitely help when I have to pick-and-choose.

A list of summer reading lists! My book recommendation cup runneth over.

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Dammit, if shouting won’t work, what will?

doctorwho:

“You’re not gonna make the world any better by shouting at it!”

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What fiction writers think poets do

whatshouldwecallpoets:

There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right with America.

William Jefferson Clinton, 1993 (via inorderofhappenstance)

imwithkanye:

Riders on the swarm. Following a sudden break in a tree branch, a giant flock of tiny birds erupts around an elephant at a water hole in Kenya. While some of the elephants in the herd ran away, this one stood among the phenomenal cloud of wings and feathers. [telegraph]

One thing we can do is remember these heroes as you remember them—not just as a rank, or a number, or a name on a headstone, but as Americans, often far too young, who were guided by a deep and abiding love for their families, for each other, and for this country.

We can remember Jay Aubin, the pilot, who met his wife on an aircraft carrier, and told his mother before shipping out, ‘If anything happens to me, just know I’m doing what I love.’

We can remember Ryan Beaupre, the former track star, running the leadoff leg, always the first one into action, who quit his job as an accountant and joined the Marines because he wanted to do something more meaningful with his life.

We can remember Brian Kennedy, the rock climber and lacrosse fanatic, who told his father two days before his helicopter went down that the Marines he served alongside were some of the best men he’d ever dealt with, and they’d be his friends forever.

We can remember Kendall Waters-Bey, a proud father, a proud son of Baltimore, who was described by a fellow servicemember as ‘a light in a very dark world.’

And we can remember David Hickman, a freshman in high school when the war began, a fitness fanatic who half-jokingly called himself ‘Zeus,’ a loyal friend with an infectious laugh.

We can remember them. And we can meet our obligations to those who did come home, and their families who are in the midst of a different, but very real battle of their own.

President Obama at Arlington Cemetery today (via barackobama)

3x08 Documentary Filmmaking: Redux

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sirmitchell:

This was commissioned by Nick Offerman (and others), as a wrap gift for the entire cast & crew at Parks & Recreation. Really happy with how it came out, and stoked to be doing more work for those guys, I love um!

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jcstearns:

Fitting for many kinds of literary work, but I wonder how this would ring for journalism?

How how would you tweak this phrase for journalists?

iferuniversity:

Love her. #anaïsnin, #quote, #write (Taken with instagram)

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vintageanchor:

“Books say: She did this because. Life says: She did this. Books are where things are explained to you; life is where things aren’t. I’m not surprised some people prefer books. Books make sense of life. The only problem is that the lives they make sense of are other people’s lives, never your own.”

—Julian Barnes, Flaubert’s Parrot

Baseball is about going home, and how hard it is to get there and how driven is our need. It tells us how good home is. Its wisdom says you can go home again but you cannot stay. The journey must always start once more, the bat an oar over the shoulder, until there is an end to all journeying. Nostos; the going home; the game of nostalgia, so apt an image for our hunger that it hurts.

A. Bartlett Giamatti - “Recall as the Series Ends, The Afternoon of the Fall” (via theyseemerollins)

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jlbatman:

TRUE.