May 2012
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“The reality is that it is the strength of Obama’s narrative, and the lack of a...”
– Matt Stoller, at Naked Capitalism, on the Prez.
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seanfennessey:
House Shoes feat. Danny Brown,...
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“In fact, a strong argument can be made that Facebook’s shaky start as a public...”
– John Cassidy in The New Yorker. He sort of addresses the big and questionable assumption at the heart of this sentence — that IPOs are about rewarding innovators and early investors — later in the piece, but this still rubbed me the wrong way. IPOs are now about extracting wealth out of...
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Data Patter: The Web's Dumbest Impulse?
I’m not sure if what I’m identifying here has a name or not. Apologies if it does. It is maddening, and I think it has something to do with the popularity of TED Talks. Two things came across my various feeds this week, both of them seemed to be popular pieces of web content, and both of them struck me as tremendously idiotic — perhaps even more idiotic for the fact that people...
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bmichael:
perpetua:
Hannibal Buress imagines...
c1qfxugcgy0 asked: It's a screenshot of Reddit, a terrible site mostly for people who pretend to be nerds; about an actor from the Big Bang Theory, a terrible show mostly for people who pretend to be nerds. I am unhappy about this, so I am unfollowing your tumblr blog. Do you require any more explanation?
c1qfxugcgy0 asked: unfollowed due to reddit screenshot about the big bang theory
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The Billfold: Only an Idiot Would Rob a Bank →
I wrote about how, maybe, the inflation of the dollar has reduced bank robbers from folk heroes to complete dolts. Criminologist approved!
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New York Magazine: The Big Gulp →
I hung out with a 7-Eleven franchisee at his 7-Elevens in Manhattan. There will be 100 of them by 2017 in Manhattan alone. I wrote about how 7-Eleven corporate wants bodegas to become 7-Elevens, and why they might.
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“Wade was captured after he texted the girl - two weeks after he allegedly shot...”
– The story of the Marin kid who stole Guy Fieri’s Lamborghini is ABSOLUTELY FUCKING BONKERS. Fake Marin thugs are kind of a thing in the Bay Area. The kind of kids who are quick to remind you that Tupac lived in Marin City — “He went to Tam for a year, dude!” — are a...
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Someone Wrote Me a Poem
You sound like an ignorant pompous skate rat, having formed your opinions while hyped up on sugar and McDonalds with your elitest popsicle sucking, concussed friends. You really have no idea what you are talking about. You sound like one of the dick heads yelling, “do a kickflip!” I know that this won’t convince you, but many skateboarders have many kinds of boards. A skateboard...
tallcan asked: your breakdown of "bruh" was amazing. your tumblr might be the most amazing in the land. in your opinion... which tumblrs top your own?
