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Jul 02
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WhoMadeWho - “Keep Me In My Plane”

Bleak, in an awesome way. 

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Jul 01
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It’s THAT DAY again.  Pour some out later for the Class of 2013, who take their oath at 6 PM this evening.  Apparently, there are 8 prior-enlisted Marines and 1 sailor from this incoming class who have already served in Iraq or Afghanistan.  The other 1,221 kids who will be sweating their junk off in T-Court later have absolutely no idea what the fuck they’ve gotten themselves into.  I wish them well, and I pray their new boss is more thoughtful about where he sends them and what he sends them there for than their last boss was.
It’s THAT DAY again.  Pour some out later for the Class of 2013, who take their oath at 6 PM this evening.  Apparently, there are 8 prior-enlisted Marines and 1 sailor from this incoming class who have already served in Iraq or Afghanistan.  The other 1,221 kids who will be sweating their junk off in T-Court later have absolutely no idea what the fuck they’ve gotten themselves into.  I wish them well, and I pray their new boss is more thoughtful about where he sends them and what he sends them there for than their last boss was.

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Jun 30
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What [Wired editor Chris Anderson] is proposing is down somewhere, on the scale of ethics, well beneath Wal-Mart’s policies of no longer hiring any full-time workers so as to avoid health and unemployment insurance. It is in fact some weird sort of neo-feudal, post-contract-worker society, in which he will create a dystopian and eager volunteer-slave system of “attention-paid” enthusiasts (which is to say, people with no other options, and no capital of their own) to create products from which rich people can get richer.

Choire Sicha on Chris Anderson’s response to Gladwell’s New Yorker takedown of his new book.

From either a policy or an aesthetic perspective, this is indeed a terrifying scenario, and it’s one that, as Sicha points out, already runs rampant thoughout the inter-spheres.  I won’t pretend I have the solution to the economics of zero-scarcity, but I shudder to think a version of creative wage-slavery Ayn Rand would be proud of is it.

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“Exploit Yourself”, Carl Erik Rinsch’s spec ad for Nike featuring badass parkour robot.  So boss.

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Jun 29
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Bill Callahan - “Eid Ma Clack Shaw” (from Sometimes I Wish We Were An Eagle)

All these fine memories are fucking me down.

Dispatches from the path not taken:

You were the first person I knew who was artistically gifted but chose not to pursue it. That was a revelation for me—you told me, ”Just because I can, it doesn’t mean I want to”.  Until then I assumed people who didn’t were people who couldn’t, not people who opted out… Those talents don’t leave; they just get buried under other stuff.

(paraphrased from a former teacher’s email)

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Jun 26
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Red-Band Trailer for Chan-wook Park’s THIRST

 

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“Fatal Flaw”, first single off the new Scary Mansion album, out in August.

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Jun 25
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Ain’t No Sunshine When He’s Gone

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Boners for always, Jill Munroe.  RIP.
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Boners for always, Jill Munroe.  RIP.

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You Can’t Produce a Baby in One Month by Getting Nine Women Pregnant.

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You gotta love the gems my “Duncan Sheik” Google Alert unearths.
You gotta love the gems my “Duncan Sheik” Google Alert unearths.

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Jun 24
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