January 2012
1 post
The Lost Cat
It ended that night. I sat there, for a long time, Not really sure what to do,
Numb.
I walked down the block to buy a pack of cigarettes. The walk was nice, the cool air refreshing. On the way back, a lone cat approached directly in front of me. Lost, it was not afraid.
She was slim, she looked hungry. But she was friendly.
I continued walking and she followed by my side. Then, as abruptly...
December 2011
5 posts
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-12-25) →
Yeah Yeah Yeahs (46)
Andrew Bird (23)
Blakroc (21)
The Black Keys (21)
Fleet Foxes (17)
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Libertarians and Racism
jeffmiller:
squashed:
… I think The Callus is right—at least to the extent that the Libertarians’ race issues go beyond some awful things that Ron Paul may or may not have allowed to be said in his name. I would lay it out a bit differently, though.
Any real-world political ideology should grapple with the problems of the real world. A political ideology that could only function in a...
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-12-18) →
The Black Keys (29)
Beck (18)
Beirut (11)
Neil Young (6)
The Age of Rockets (6)
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-12-4) →
The National (40)
Sufjan Stevens (33)
The Raconteurs (24)
Pixies (22)
Band of Horses (12)
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-11-27) →
Tokyo Police Club (39)
Okkervil River (23)
Foster The People (16)
The Luyas (13)
The Feelies (5)
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November 2011
4 posts
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-11-20) →
Yeah Yeah Yeahs (49)
Dr. Dog (39)
The New Pornographers (27)
Foo Fighters (22)
Beirut (17)
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-11-13) →
Taking Back Sunday (36)
The National (27)
Foo Fighters (14)
Dr. Dog (14)
Vampire Weekend (12)
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Notes From Below the Mason-Dixon
1. You never really know what to expect. That can be the weather, women, your job, etc. It’s all fucked up.
2. Bukowski is solid in nearly every situation.
3. Getting piss drunk and bitching about how fucked your life is does not stop in college. It goes on.
4. Same can be said with chain smoking.
5. Do not pay bills on time; keep the bastards on their toes.
October 2011
7 posts
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-10-30) →
Band of Horses (19)
Modest Mouse (14)
The Black Keys (12)
Foo Fighters (10)
The National (10)
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-10-23) →
Sharon Van Etten (33)
The xx (24)
Sunset Rubdown (22)
Girl Talk (16)
Tokyo Police Club (13)
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-10-16) →
The Tallest Man on Earth (32)
Foo Fighters (23)
Handsome Furs (23)
Sufjan Stevens (13)
Grizzly Bear (12)
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-10-9) →
Neko Case (47)
Land of Talk (42)
The Tallest Man on Earth (41)
Tokyo Police Club (32)
Sufjan Stevens (28)
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-10-2) →
Tokyo Police Club (30)
The New Pornographers (30)
Modest Mouse (28)
G. Love (20)
The National (17)
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September 2011
6 posts
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-9-25) →
Foo Fighters (52)
Destroyer (30)
Crystal Castles (22)
Arcade Fire (18)
Chad VanGaalen (16)
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“Idiot Heart” - Sunset Rubdown
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-9-11) →
The Luyas (80)
The National (55)
The Dodos (21)
Band of Horses (21)
Neko Case (20)
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For Sale: Baby shoes, never worn.
-Hemingway.
August 2011
14 posts
It’s moments like this, in the strange state between sober and drunk, alone and awake,
that one thinks back to home. To the midwest.
Funny, we yearn to get out. To live. But then we realize how shitty it is out there and we want nothing more than to go back
to the midwest.
“Baby We’ll Be Fine” - The...
“I was glad I wasn’t in love, that I wasn’t happy with the world. I like being at...”
– Charles Bukowski in Women (via nickmiller)
there’s a bluebird in my heart that wants to get out but I’m too tough for him, I say, stay in there, I’m not going to let anybody see you. there’s a bluebird in my heart that wants to get out but I pour whiskey on him and inhale cigarette smoke and the whores and the bartenders and the grocery clerks never know that he’s in there. there’s a bluebird in my heart...
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Anti-Gay Indiana State Rep Caught Exchanging Money... →
thereisnot:
ataxiwardance:
ifitseasy:
Another one.
Another one… bites the dust.
heh heh heh
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A Streetcar Name Desire
We travel a few blocks together On the streetcar.
I got off going north and she got off going south. We looked backed at one another, and smiled.
She went her way and I went mine. And then I threw myself into oncoming traffic,
Ending a sentence, That otherwise could have never been completed.
radicaladventure:
Say It Ain’t So - Weezer
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-7-31) →
Spoon (65)
Sufjan Stevens (46)
Cat Power (44)
Florence + the Machine (29)
tUnE-yArDs (23)
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July 2011
19 posts
“A man certainly does become confused, gradually, with the form of his own...”
– Frederick Reiken - Day for Night
Sunset in the South
We sat there. Both of us. Kind of drunk, kind of sober
Out on my balcony in the sunset. She reached out and touched my hand.
Maybe it was the wine, but I felt weird, Uncomfortable.
Maybe it was the feelings that I thought Were long dead, buried forever. Maybe it was something new, Unknown.
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-7-24) →
Destroyer (38)
Lykke Li (15)
Beck (14)
Black Joe Lewis & The Honeybears (14)
The Feelies (13)
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“The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts...”
– Charles Bukowski (via nonchalant-beatnik)
“The shortest answer is doing the thing.”
– Ernest Hemingway (via bitchville)
“Get Yo Shit” - Black Joe Lewis &...
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Continued Corruption in Charter Schools
Let me preface this by saying that not all charter schools are bad. There are some charter schools that are run very well by wonderful administrators and educators. There are other charter schools, however, that in an effort to acquire funding and preserve their profit margin will cut corners and compromise their educational instruction - all these things are systematic of current educational...
