July 2012
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The Essential Beatles
The Beatles’ start off just wanting to be popular. Their songs are structured around singable melodies, appealing vocals, appropriate lyrics, catchy hooks. So the first few albums are trying to showcase these songs - production is genius in terms of how it pares back any sort of “noise” and just puts those elements front and centre.
I could quote a Beatles lyric and you’ll...
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Fashion: An Interpretation
Fashion works because rich people try to look richer than middle class people and middle class people try to look like rich people. Everyone is trying to look high-class. Rich people try to avoid being mistaken for middle-class people, and middle-class people do their best to be mistaken for rich people. That’s what causes the cycles: the rich have the money to buy new wardrobes, but the...
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How to eat a watermelon
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Why do we abbreviate "pound" as "lb."?
The Latin word for “pound” is “libra,” which is where we get the abbreviation “lb.”
The more you know.
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Font Sale (link) →
19 fonts for $49
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“Disney movies are fucking terrible.
It never occurred to me that the...”
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Locavores may do more harm than good →
“If widely adopted, either voluntarily or through political mandates,locavorism can only result in higher costs and increased poverty, greater food insecurity, less food safety and much more significant environmental damage than is presently the case.”
I used to work at a movie theater, and this one incident sticks out like a horrible, shitty thumb. It was a relatively slow day, so my coworkers and I are lounging about in the lobby when an older gentleman, dressed all in white (white shorts, shirt, socks, sneakers. This is an important detail.) hurries into the bathroom. We all think nothing of it because we’ve seen people rush in before,...
