December 2011
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Everything is about snakes, in one way or another.
This one lives under me.
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Bride Jessica, Praet, Schell and Mannatt dance to Prince at the Kaplan/McMenamin wedding. Angel Orensanz, NYC. October 2011.
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an slc boy . . .
A few amazing things about this post which are news to me:
1. Warren Beatty’s kid attends SLC
2. Warren Beatty’s kid is transgender
3. They changed the name of the student newspaper from the Phoenix to SLC Speaks? WTF.
Finally, a gem of a SLC-jargon quote from Stephen Ira Beatty via the linked article in which he defends his comments on Chaz Bono:
“Chaz has appointed himself...
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Amount by which a typical good-looking U.S. worker will out-earn a typical ugly...
– Harper’s Index, Harper’s magazine, November 2011.
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Number of times the average British man will fall in love, according to an...
– Harper’s Index, Harper’s magazine, November 2011.
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Date on which Joe Walsh (R., Ill.) said Washington can’t put “one...
– Harper’s Index, Harper’s magazine, November 2011.
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Estimated percentage of Americans aged 17 to 24 who are ineligible to join the...
– Harper’s Index, Harper’s magazine, November 2011.
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Perfect symmetry is ugly, I always want to destroy symmetry.
– Rei Kawakubo (somnambulatorie)
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Stringing one’s experiences into a coherent narrative, positing an ability to...
– Death Dreams, A review of Ben Jeffery’s Anti-Matter: Michel Houellebecq and Depressive Realism (Zero Books)
by Rob Horning
Via The New Inquiry
I’ve never read a more succinctly truthful take on Houellebecq - this review gets to the heart of him in about .5 seconds (and simultaneously, but...
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Chances that a U.S. corporation is considering ending health benefits when...
– Harper’s Index, Harper’s magazine, November 2011.
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Percentage change since 2001 in applications for Social Security disability...
– Harper’s Index, Harper’s magazine, November 2011.
Can I start getting back all the money I paid into Social Security now please? Currently, the amount I’ve paid in over the past 17 years of work would just about cover my remaining student loans from college.
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Number of the 100 highest-paid American CEOs who earned more than their...
– Harper’s Index, Harper’s magazine, November 2011.