January 2012
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“Man is the only creature who ever stiffs a waiter.”
– Woody Allen
Jan 17th
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December 2011
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Dec 22nd
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Dec 18th
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“Today, I saw a red and yellow sunset, and thought how insignificant I am. Of...”
– From Woody Allen’s collection Without Feathers
Dec 18th
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“My point being, the amateur historian’s next stop after “Boy, people used...”
– Sarah Vowell in The Wordy Shipmates
Dec 15th
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Dec 14th
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Dec 13th
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Dec 13th
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Dec 4th
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“Someone should write an erudite essay on the moral, physical, and esthetic...”
– From Cannery Row by John Steinbeck
Dec 3rd
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November 2011
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ListenDown There By The Train - Johnny Cash
Nov 30th
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Nov 30th
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“Yet with an unconquerable enthusiasm, I shall ever pay homage to the first of...”
– Mary Robinson, Sight, the Cavern of Woe, and Solitude (1793)
Nov 29th
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“Women hold up half the sky.”
– Mao Zedong
Nov 26th
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Anonymous asked: Why are otters brown?
Nov 23rd
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Nov 21st
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Nov 13th
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Nov 13th
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Nov 13th
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Nov 8th
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Nov 6th
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Nov 6th
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Nov 5th
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Nov 4th
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Nov 4th
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Nov 4th
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Nov 1st
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Nov 1st
October 2011
15 posts
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Oct 31st
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Oct 30th
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Oct 29th
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Oct 28th
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“If psychoanalysis was late 19th century secular Judaism’s way of finding...”
– David Rakoff in “Christmas Freud,” a segment of the Christmas and Commerce episode of This American Life. 
Oct 28th
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Oct 28th
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“Clerks Barry and Dick are emotional cripples stuck in that male pop-culture...”
– Sarah Vowell on characters in Nick Horby’s High Fidelity
Oct 28th
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Oct 27th
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“I am not a society person. The societies to which I have been exposed seemed to...”
–  Duena Alfonsa, from Cormac McCarthy’s All the Pretty Horses
Oct 22nd
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ListenParenthetical Girls - Young Throats  - - - This is...
Oct 12th
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“Hatred seems to operate the same glands as love: it even produces the same...”
– From Graham Greene’s “The End of the Affair”
Oct 4th
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September 2011
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“Pity the poor in spirit who know neither the enchantment nor the beauty of...”
– from Muriel Barbery’s The Elegance of the Hedgehog
Sep 29th
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August 2011
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ListenPayne’s Bay - Beirut
Aug 7th
July 2011
21 posts
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Why you shouldn't teach bros Latin
Bro1: Take my advice, bro. Always hit on mute girls at parties.
Bro2: You mean beezies that can't speak, bro?
Bro1: Yeah, bro. Works 100% of the time.
Bro2: Really, bro?
Bro1: Qui tacet consentire videtur, bro!
Jul 30th
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Jul 26th
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Jul 26th