February 2012
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Who killed iheartnymuseums.com?
It was probably the Guggenheim.
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Best segue to a pun run ever. Everyone else can go...
leviafan:
“I thought it’s very interesting how you’ve approached this Dickens story, John, very distinctive style… you really gave it an Oliver twist.”
From last week’s The Bugle, starts at 26:00.
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“Today’s most popular music is pared down to its essence: one groove, one hook,...”
– Rock Is the New Jazz. Sorry, Rock. < PopMatters –- By Will Layman
bwa hahaha. (as much as I find B.I. fairly tepid)
Another choice line:
“You know,” folks say, “the problem with jazz is that there are just too many notes.” For jazz fans this is like saying that the problem with Hamlet is...
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“I have a magazine,” she tells Shterna, who responds with a blankly encouraging...”
– Oprah Visits a Hasidic Family, and They Wonder: Oprah Who? – Tablet Magazine
This could be interesting.
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“We often talk about inventions like the printing press and the television — by...”
– Producer Matthew • Letter from Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook CEO, in social network’s IPO filing
Zb doesn’t appear to have been informed of the Guttenberg Parenthesis… (emphasis mine)
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The New Inquiry: Pont Blank →
Some fun mysterious modernists’ malarky from your friends at TNI.
thenewinquiry:
“Photographs, which cannot themselves explain anything, are inexhaustible invitations to deduction, speculation and fantasy.” –Susan Sontag, On Photography, 1977
“It is necessary that the piece of card is animated with some help from me, giving it meaning it did not yet have. If I see Pierre…
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Disjecta Membra
Genizaschmutz. So cool.
Among the documents:
“an 11th-century certificate by a rabbinical court testifying to the kosher status of certain cheeses produced on Jerusalem’s Mount of Olives, and palimpsests of biblical passages on paper or vellum”
“wills and bills, merchant contracts, trousseau lists, children’s primers, Hebrew grammars, prescriptions, petitions, a letter...
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