even accommodationist Booker T. Washington was beaten in New York in 1911 for talking to a white woman
As the Bard wrote: “I can change / I can change / I can change / I can change / If it makes you fall in love.
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I miss Rob Harvilla all the time. (via zachbaron) You’ve all read this by now, I hope, but just reblogging because it’s worth reading again and again. The whole thing. |
Musicians generally crave both the validation of praise and the satisfaction of self-expression, even though the pursuit of one often comes at the expense of the other.
Mass incarceration on a scale almost unexampled in human history is a fundamental fact of our country today—perhaps the fundamental fact, as slavery was the fundamental fact of 1850. In truth, there are more black men in the grip of the criminal-justice system—in prison, on probation, or on parole—than were in slavery then. Over all, there are now more people under “correctional supervision” in America—more than six million—than were in the Gulag Archipelago under Stalin at its height. That city of the confined and the controlled, Lockuptown, is now the second largest in the United States.
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Adam Gopnik on ‘The Caging of America’ in The New Yorker Pitchfork published my article yesterday on how when you think about indie labels and artists, the debate over anti-piracy laws like SOPA is anything but clear-cut. Above, Gopnik touches on just one subject that is way more worth starting an Internet-wide protest about. |
For anybody who is blissfully unaware of what a hipster is, the recipe is simple. First, envision someone mixing a hippie with a liberal arts major. Next, add in a pile of self loathing and snobbery. Finally, throw in a large amount of condescending projectile hatred, add hummus and serve up fresh
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Cityview | Central Iowa’s Independent Weekly Des Moines’ quasi-alternative weekly (mostly just a nexus of blissful ignorance) has arrived in 2001! Note: The editor’s letter in the front of the issue is basically a multi-paragraph extended quote from UrbanDictionary.com. And by “basically,” I mean it quotes UrbanDictionary.com’s definition of “hipster” for multiple paragraphs. |
Anyway, at the party last night, the conversation turned to planes, and the hedge-fund mogul announced to a small group that he was “waiting for my 650”—referring to the fact that the new Gulfstream planes haven’t even hit the market yet.
This produced a surprisingly vehement response from the Internet mogul, who pronounced the 650 the height of gauche conspicuous consumption, and said that he himself would be buying an older, more stylish jet for ~$30 million and then spend $6-$7 million refurbishing it.
This produced a surprisingly vehement response from the Internet mogul, who pronounced the 650 the height of gauche conspicuous consumption, and said that he himself would be buying an older, more stylish jet for ~$30 million and then spend $6-$7 million refurbishing it.
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like a G6 |
