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Literary Journal Ads from 1990
I found these in a 1989/90 issue of Pequod. The cropped set in color follows the same set uncropped in black and white. You can also view them on Flickr. Tagged: 1990s, ads, Boulevard, culture,...
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Brother, Where Art Thou on Craigslist? (Seriously, A Post About Word Processors)
A few days ago, I wrote: “If you’re roughly my age, we may share some of these academic distinctions: last or close-to-last class of students to attend various Cold War or pre-war era schools before...
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Barack Obama and the Monomyth at Midterm
This is forthcoming at Huffington, but here I get to make up captions. Human beings are uniquely narrative creatures. Bees gather pollen, make hives, produce honey. Birds build nests. Whatever else we...
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Your Life in Radio Singles
The discussion on the “A Few More Things Your Kids Won’t Do, Generation X” post inspired me to follow up on a project I started a few years ago. Everyone gets those Nick Hornby-inspired Facebook memes...
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High School Senior Peyton Manning Had the same Haircut as the Current Peyton...
This image is via Yahoo!Sports. Peyton Manning, you look exactly the same. Cliff Lee, how is it possible that you were a teenager at precisely the same time I was? It’s not that you look old now…it’s...
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Wait, What?: Racist Comics Edition (There’s No Way Aquaman Is More Popular...
John Stewart should be the JLA’s Green Lantern and the iconic alpha Lantern of the DCU. Put Hal back in the Corps and promote John back to the place of leadership and mainstream iconography he earned...
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Mitt Romney, Cultural Economist And/Or Weberian-Calvinist Chauvinist
Governor Romney, I’m trying to come up with a context in which these comments you’re making about culture as the driver of economic prosperity aren’t racist. But I’m having trouble. Maybe you’re...
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“The 1% Work Harder” Myth
Job hunting in 1930s pic.twitter.com/OpKQ0eGA1A — History In Pictures (@HistoryInPics) February 8, 2014 It was hateful classism then, and it’s hateful classism now. Tagged: culture, photography,...
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Evensongs and iBooks
____ I’m working on an iBook version of What Other People Heard When I Taught Myself to Speak. I’m very pleased, for all kinds of reasons, with this page. Photo by Chris Sinjakli via Flickr. Tagged:...
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The Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History: An Interactive Wonder You’ll Spend...
This links to the sections focusing on 500-1000 A.D, but I bet you can’t stop there. Filed under: art, culture, history Tagged: art, Art History, culture, world history
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This Website Maps Your Literary Tastes and Tendencies
Literature Map says: What else do readers of [any other famous author] read? The closer two writers are, the more likely someone will like both of them. Click on any name to travel along. Did it map...
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I found these in a 1989/90 issue of Pequod. The cropped set in color follows the same set uncropped in black and white. You can also view them on Flickr.
View ArticleBrother, Where Art Thou on Craigslist? (A Post About Word Processors)
A few days ago, I wrote: “If you’re roughly my age, we may share some of these academic distinctions: last or close-to-last class of students to attend various Cold War or pre-war era schools before...
View ArticleYour Life in Radio Singles
The discussion on the “A Few More Things Your Kids Won’t Do, Generation X” post inspired me to follow up on a project I started a few years ago. Everyone gets those Nick Hornby-inspired Facebook memes...
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