September 2011
126 posts
August 2011
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This was on the Italian newspaper website,
huge unidentified animal that came out of the NY city sewer.
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Corporations are getting better and better at seducing us into thinking the way...
– David Foster Wallace, The Pale King (via nevver)
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Illustri Sconosciuti: About Piero Umiliani and I... →
intweetion:
Piero Umiliani
The memory of the “Italian jazz” explored by Umiliani in I soliti ignoti was alive and kicking in both 3s3 films:
I recall that Mario Monicelli, director of I soliti ignoti [Big Deal on Madonna Street, 1958], had expressly called for a very modern kind of music. He wanted it to be fun and swinging, and at the same time tragic, bluesy. Because as funny as they were,...
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Remember When House Republicans Voted Against... →
itsfullofstars:
In the US, we rely on the National Hurricane Center to forecast storms. The NHC is in turn a division of the National Weather Service, itself a part of the NOAA. Which, in the GOP’s 2011 budget bill, had its funding slashed by $1.2 billion from what was proposed in the president’s own budget bill, a bill that very notably included a $700 million increase over the previous year to...
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Virginia Emergency Management Taking Questions on... →
marc:
The Virginia Department of Emergency Management is taking questions on its Tumblr blog about how to prepare for Hurricane Irene.
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If there is any group of people that should be opposed to war, torture,...
– Laurence M. Vance (via azspot)
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When I learned of an essay of Heidegger’s called “The Age of the World View,”...
– From Stanley Cavell’s preface to The World Viewed (via emissions)
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Watched: The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
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Robert Anton Wilson →
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Shot near “The Cloisters” in Inwood, NY
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Foodspotting Richmond
fanrva:
Foodspotting is a site that “helps you decide what to eat, not just where, by enabling you to find whatever you’re craving, see what’s good at a particular restaurant and discover the best foods around you wherever you go.” See what Richmond has to offer and then share your own…
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Watched: Ieri, Oggi, Domani / Yesterday, Today and...
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Watched: Per un pugno di dollari / A Fistful of...
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silentfilmgallery:
Kodachrome Film Test 1922. One of the earliest color films.
Tomorrow night we’ll be in Richmond!
Almost finished packing. Goodbye New York.