January 2012
2 posts
The Onion: Miranda July Called Before Congress To... →
leilacohanmiccio:
Oh god, this is so perfect.
“We see you have a website here in which you give people what could best be described as arts and crafts ‘homework assignments’ of various sorts, but to be quite honest, we can’t make head or tail of it,” Sen. Charles Schumer (D-NY) said while consulting a laptop in order to view one of July’s perplexing Internet outlets,...
December 2011
3 posts
“Organizations don’t understand talent. They don’t understand how it is...”
– Toiling: Within Firms, Biases Against The Young by Alex Sachon (brother and smart person)
Toiling: The Future Of Work: An Outline Of An... →
My brother reads the economist and pulls out the best and most important bits so we don’t have to.
toiling:
The following is a re-organized outline of quotes and ideas from The Economist’s special report on the issues and trends affecting jobs and labor: “The Future Of Jobs”. This is a really good overview of the topic at hand (and a good overview of the spectrum of ideas covered by this...
Longreads: Writer Logan Sachon: My Top Longreads... →
longreads:
Logan Sachon writes for The Awl and other places also. She lives in Virginia.
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• “Inside David Foster Wallace’s Private Self-Help Library,” by Maria Bustillos (The Awl)
This piece just blew me away, and I’m not even a DFW devotee (I’ve yet to tackle any of his…
Things I read that I liked.
November 2011
2 posts
Things I Ate That I Love: Last night →
thingsiatethatilove:
We weren’t sure where they were stopping traffic so we parked near Foley Square and walked in the direction of the park. It was around 1:45 and the streets were deserted but we could hear a chopper overhead and kids on bikes were swooping past us, headed in the same direction we were. On Broadway…
Please read this. Check plus plus.
October 2011
6 posts
Know your etymology
From a dictionary of nautical terms:
Cunt splice or cut splice: A join between two lines, similar to an eye-splice, where each rope end is joined to the other a short distance along, making an opening which closes under tension.
Cuntline: The “valley” between the strands of a rope or cable. Before serving a section of laid rope e.g. to protect it from chafing, it may be...
close, but not technically "applying for jobs"
Reading through job boards and opening each possible lead in a new tab. Look at all those tabs! Of jobs! That I could apply for! And now I’m hungry. Lunch time. BRB (never)
startup idea
Mobile outdoor office space. Similar to rent-a-desk places, but instead, you rent a desk outside, in front of public buildings (say, IN ALABAMA). Your body is there as a protester, but you can still, you know, get your work done.
raw tuscan kale salad
I’ve been sick for some days. A basic cold, the kind that, had I anywhere I had to be, I still would have gone, but since I had no place to be, I stayed in bed for two days. But today I ventured out the house. I put on proper clothes, and I spent some time in front the mirror putting on eyeliner and mascara. These are not things I do, but I did them. It felt right. Then I went to a cafe...
September 2011
1 post
Toiling: Generation Limbo: Waiting It Out
1. Meet... →
toiling:
Generation Limbo: Waiting It Out
1.
Meet the members of what might be called Generation Limbo: highly educated 20-somethings, whose careers are stuck in neutral, coping with dead-end jobs and listless prospects.
In no way does this article do justice to this phenomenon. I feel…
My brother is smart.
August 2011
1 post
I’ve been posting recommendations about things I’ve read/things I think you should read on Twitter lately. So! If you’re interested in things I’ve read/things I think you should read, I’m @lsach
July 2011
6 posts
FRIENDS WITH BENEFITS - COVERAGE
What is Sean White doing here? Get him out of here.
More Patricia Clarkson. (Can this movie be about her instead? Maybe we cut the kids and she and Richard Jenkins fall in love? Can we cure Alzheimer’s? Look into that. Also don’t make her wear sequins. She would never wear sequins.)
Cut the flash mob. Cut the other flash mob.
“This is my mountaintop.” NO.
Isn’t...
Can we talk about early-onset Alzheimer’s? Specifically, how early is “early”? (Like, is 27 early?) And how does one tell the difference between memory loss from Alzheimer’s and memory loss from, say, lack of sleep and excessive multi-tasking? Anyone who is capable of reading a WebMD page without self-diagnosing is qualified to answer! BONUS: What about brain tumors and...
Stockholm syndrome, with a dog
I am taking care of the family dog this summer so my parents can go to the beach and be normal retired people, instead of retired people whose lives are ruled by a dog. (It’s also trendy to move back in with your parents, and I like to be on trend.) They’ve been gone for a week, and I’m losing my mind. The dog is in charge. I traded my life for theirs in a straight up hostage swap. As my mom...
“One of the things you learn as a college president is that if an undergraduate...”
– Larry Summers, former President of Harvard, regarding the Winklevoss twins that sued Zuckerberg over Facebook (via loganabbott)
1 tag
writing for money
As most professional bloggers can attest, there is a fine, maybe nonexistent line, between being paid to write a post and being paid to write a loosely connected string of SEO terms. One has integrity (maybe), one does not. One has soul (maybe), one does not. “What is the nature of that line, to me, a writer,” I asked myself not very seriously on a recent evening, as I tried to figure...
June 2011
9 posts
Would you like to visit a place where all the... →
“How My Generosity Got Me $8,000 in Debt,” posted at getrichslowly.com
“And somehow still, there was a point at which I started working out a tax issue...”
– “Transformers: Dark of the Moon” | The Awl
LA: Lytro: The camera that will change everything →
loganabbott:
Check out Lytro, a new technology from Ren Ng that is poised to make every other camera ever made obsolete. Lytro camera technology makes the need to focus your shot before you snap a picture irrelevant. It works by capturing as much information as possible about the light fields in front of its…
this is really fun.
“One, I would take some classes at the UCB. Two, the secret to the success of The...”
– Thomas Lennon’s advice for people who want to break into sketch comedy.
AFUCKINGMEN.
(via leilacohanmiccio)
Watchpaperspace-k:
a train ride
kim makes pretty things
Woman Allowed to Write Television Scripts | The... →
Congrats, Molls!
"Why You Probably Shouldn't Ask Me to Babysit Your... →
May 2011
1 post
“The homepage on my web browser is Yahoo, which I’m told it shouldn’t be, but...”
– Aaron Sorkin’s media diet (via jamiemottram)
hha so true
March 2011
1 post
“Am I panicked? Fuck no. Why would I be panicked when I’m one of the few people...”
– molls…she wrote: so so so sorry none of us died last night
January 2011
29 posts
The internet can be poetic: Why I’m no... →
Matt is my friend and reading his blog makes my internet life better. Also: This essay is really, really, really good!
My First Bundle Piece: How I Got Out of (Enormous)... →
miltnr:
Last fall, the very nice Mark Armstrong approached me about doing a piece for Bundle. The above link is what resulted.
The article goes into more detail, but in short, I accrued a LOT of debt in a short time and only just got out of it. Admitting (in a very public forum!) what used to be my Big Shame is part of my attempt to move past it and maybe (maybe?) provide a little bit of...
Early AIDS Journalism: A Longreads List →
I read a lot of articles about AIDS and picked out a few that you should read, too.
Elizabeth Spiers on Jared Loughner's family
spiers:
Reading the comments on this Gawker thread about Jared Loughner’s family, a few thoughts:
It is far harder than you probably think to get an adult with paranoid schizophrenia help—professional treatment or otherwise. And I know this from painful direct experience. Paranoid schizophrenia runs in my family on my dad’s side and we’ve had to deal with it in the worst possible ways. (I was...
“but there is so much more going on in the mind of the man who’s sitting in front...”
– Pitchfork Reviews Reviews, how downloading music has literally saved my life
hypothesis
maybe some people are mean on the internet so they can be nice in their real lives
"I made my mother translate the song lyrics, and... →
Celia Farber on her childhood exile to Sweden.
resolution
i just snapped at my mom. i waited a beat and apologized. she said: just stop. that’s who you are.
fix that.
“There’s always going to be someone smarter,... →
"It is a truth universally acknowledged that a... →
The writer stopped working to raise her two sons fulltime 14 years ago. Bravo, her choice. But now she’s divorced and unemployable. This. Is. Terrifying.
“The hard thing about when a person dies is that... →
This whole essay is pretty great. You should probably read it.
