May 2011
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Watchlaughingsquid:
An Epic Battle Between Michael Jackson and Mr. Bean
smiles all around!
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Agnostic Front, My Life My Way
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Nerd. →
This is my other blog, Everything Was Beautiful And Nothing Hurt. It’s one I started last year to keep my peeps in LA updated on my shenanigans. Head over there if you’re interested in a bit more personal side of me. It’s more literature/music/writing/life-based. Follow! Peace.
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Audrey Kawasaki →
My Dishonest Heart
LA Weekly has chosen Audrey as one of their Best of LA People for 2011. Peep the article here. I went to high school with Audrey and am a huge fan of her work. The recognition she’s getting is very much deserved!
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Tom Waits, I’ll Shoot The Moon
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Shipwreck →
Shipwreck in the Solomon Islands, close to Australia. Google Map coordinates are 9°01’23.49”S 160°07’23.34”E. Kinda cool.
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The Great Depression →
The Library of Congress released a collection of color images from the Great Depression today which give a rare vivid glimpse of America at one of her most vulnerable times, struggling to survive and gearing up for war — a period of time which changed the course of history…
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Greg Graffin To Teach At Cornell University →
Renowned singer/songwriter Greg Graffin of the immensely influential rock band Bad Religion has just finished a sold-out tour and in the coming months will be addressing a slightly quieter though no less rapt audience. Graffin has a second career as an esteemed author and academic. The venerated punk icon obtained a PhD in zoology from Cornell University, has served as a lecturer in life sciences...
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The Paradox that is Glenn Danzig →
“I find this sort of batshit life-as-extension-of-your-art both baffling and thrilling in a lot of people, especially when they stick to it in the face of extreme derision. And Danzig indeed claims to not give a fuck about being mocked. Which doesn’t stop him from throwing entertaining hissy fits, of course, or looking like a chump.”
Haha!
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“Tea is the taste of my land: it is bitter and warm, strong, and sharp with...”
– Little Bee, Chris Cleave
This passage reminds me of my adolescence - early morning tea with toast before school. I always drank alone. There were no family meals in my household until we entered into adulthood. Even then, when tea was served after dinner, everybody left the table with hot cups and...
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Elastica, Blue
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Writing Tips
Amy Leigh Cutler, New York poet extraordinaire.
Begin with I.
Talk about the ways he hurt you.
And how you feel about women in politics.
Tell all the stories of your childhood.
Write out your rape,
your miscarriage,
your failed marriage,
your best friend’s suicide.
Write about the abortion.
Coming out.
Running away.
Ring out more tears
with daddy stories, mommy stories,
sibling...
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NY Public Library Centennial Exhibition →
The New York Public Library will celebrate it’s 100th anniversary this year and, in commemoration of that, will open it’s vault for some rare goods to exhibit. Among these goodies:
a copy of the Gutenberg Bible
one of Malcolm X’s journals
a lock of Mary Shelley’s hair
the final draft of George Washington’s farewell address
Virginia Woolf’s walking...
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