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Treat your ears right. Listen to this track. ‘Tis the season for Sufjan Xmas albums.
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“Who did I read more regularly in my adult life? Not even any actual poets. But...”
– Kunkel on Hitchens [n+1]
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The numbers on the numbers
barthel: Eric Harvey has heroically compiled sales numbers for Pitchfork’s top 50 albums for 2011 and 2010. Being a quant guy, I wanted to run some stats on them. Here goes: Average album sales 2011: 111,339 2010: 161,400 Read More Correlation between rank on list and number of albums sold 2011: -0.34 2010: -0.36 It’s the same general pattern, but the interesting thing here is that...
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World-Shifting
lareviewofbooks: The book inserts itself into your consciousness. It becomes associated with, and even part of, what happened to you during that period of your life. To read a novel of this length is to be immersed, to move back and forth between the fictional world and the real one, and in so doing, to see the latter through a point of view invented in the former. (CHARLES YU on Haruki...
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“Most LGBT-identified teens who have committed suicide since the “It Gets Better”...”
– danah boyd | Four Difficult Questions Regarding Bullying and Youth Suicide.  Well, there’s a very difficult fact to interpret.
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Rolling Stone's Top 10 Memes of 2011 →
perpetua: I wrote about the year’s best and most memorable memes! I made a point of doing this as thoughtfully as possible, writing about each one in the same way I’d do a blurb for a song or album on, say, a Pitchfork year-end list. I have to say that I could hardly believe that #1 was from 2011. It seems like forever blogyears ago.
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Hate Actually | The Hairpin →
Bobby Finger outlines his love/hate actually for Love Actually. I agree with nearly all of the “why I hate actually it” points and maybe only one two of the “love actually” arguments: Laura Linney deserves so much happiness! Haven’t you seen You Can Count on Me? Again, nothing to hate here. How disappointing! (re: John (Martin Freeman) and Judy (Joanna Page)) See also:...
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“Occasionally you’ll hear peals of laughter coming out of the bar, in the...”
– The official recap of Wednesday’s Silent Reading Party takes a much more charitable view of “nice” and uses a different definition of “occasional”. (The Silent-Reading Party Last Night Was Packed | Slog)
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“The Twitter service I signed up for is one where people tweet 140-character...”
– John Gruber dissects the new twitter app and what it all means. [Daring Fireball: The New Twitter (R.I.P. Tweetie)]
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A few hours after television producers set up a... →
In a world without Law & Order, this would not be possible. 
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“At base, I object to any system that makes me feel like a store clerk in “High...”
– Emily Nussbam isn’t making a top 10 list for this year’s television. [New Yorker]
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