December 2011
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An (incomplete) guide to Seattle, for broke-ass...
I know that MLA would be cheaper if I still lived in Seattle and could put you up in my basement, but since I moved away, you’ll have to settle for this list.
First off, where you’ll be: the Convention Center is downtown. Downtown is a nice enough place for mall shopping and chain restaurants, but you’re not allowed to judge Seattle on downtown. After dark, downtown just...
"Go on the Useless Presents."
“Bags of moist and many-colored jelly babies and a folded flag and a false nose and a tram-conductor’s cap and a machine that punched tickets and rang a bell; never a catapult; once, by mistake that no one could explain, a little hatchet; and a celluloid duck that made, when you pressed it, a most unducklike sound, a mewing moo that an ambitious cat might make who wished to be a cow;...
“Sebelius’ reason: Some girls as young as 11 are physically capable of...”
– - NYTimes: U.S. Rejects Plan to Widen Availability of Morning-After Pill
I’ve read this sentence like four times now, and I can’t make any sense of it. Some girls as young as 11 are physically capable of bearing children…so we should make sure they have to? Presumably the...
“Another nice culture jam or whatever would be a remix or mashup of all these...”
– The New Inquiry - Don’t Stop Beliebing
Seriously, this article.