January 2012
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aimsme:
This is to announce that the UK has shut down the United States of America on the basis of the copyright infringement commonly known as American English. Her Majesty’s police force will be with you shortly.
YOU CAN’T SHUT DOWN AMERICA
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JOHN COOPER APPRECIATION BLOG
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Validation or Marginalization?
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The Chicago Tribune is rolling out a new premium books section for $99 a year. The Printers Row offering (named for a Chicago neighborhood) “will feature 24 pages of book reviews, author interviews and Chicago-focused literary news, along with a weekly bonus book of short fiction.” You can either feel validated (special HBO-style “premium” section for readers!) or marginalized...
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“It’s not that fragmentary writing is the only acceptable form of writing today —...”
– Guy Patrick Cunningham in the essay “Fragmentary: Writing in a Digital Age”
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thanks to tumblr i am able to follow a series without actually watching anything
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watching Doctor Zhivago with my mom because it was my grandma’s favorite movie
it’s pretty good (even given all the coincidences) except for the dialogue
“You would refuse my sugar?”
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The Affair of the Black Armbands →
curseofthefanartlords:
dee-light:
The public responded with a massive uproar that amazed everybody, especially Doyle. Twenty thousand people canceled their subscriptions to the Strand. Hate mail arrived at the magazine’s editorial offices by the sackload. Thousands of people wrote Doyle directly, begging him to reverse Holmes’s death. Many people took to wearing black armbands in the street,...