August 2009
27 posts
“There’s no room in the evangelical right wing for the arts, I mean these people...”
– Frank Schaeffer (via azspot) (via robot-heart-politics)
“Your Cover’s Blown” by Belle...
WatchVideo for “Pon de Floor” by Major Lazer, directed by Eric Wareheim of Tim and Eric fame. Pretty much NSFW, but more in a ridiculous way than a lewd way. But still kind of lewd. And really awesome.
Atticus Finch and Southern liberalism : The New... →
A look at the downfall of Southern Paternalism at the end of the Jim Crow era, by Malcolm Gladwell.
(via Antidisingenuousmentarianism)
Clowes interview on McSweeneys site →
youmightfindyourself:
Clowes, who was born in Chicago in 1961, was by his own estimation a “shy, loner, bookworm kind of kid.” After studying art at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, Clowes graduated in 1984 with few career prospects. He discovered the Hernandez brothers’ brilliant and influential Love and Rockets comic-book series at a local comics store and decided to send some of his drawings...
“You fight your superficiality, your shallowness, so as to try to come at people...”
– Phillip Roth, American Pastoral (via reconnoitre)
i needed to read this.
(via nudawn)
Out of the Kitchen, Onto the Couch - NYTimes.com
Michael Pollan on cooking shows.
