February 2012
13 posts
this isn't happiness.: The several disorders and... →
nevver:
1. Rufflers (thieving beggars, apprentice uprightment) 2. Uprightmen (leaders of robber bands) 3. Hookers or anglers (thieves who steal through windows with hooks) 4. Rogues (rank-and-file vagabonds) 5. Wild rogues (those born of rogues) 6. Priggers of prancers (horse thieves) 7. Palliards…
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Interesting Virginians: Hunter Stagg - "Brilliant,...
During the height of his fame as one of the founding editors of The Reviewer, a Richmond-based experimental literary magazine that received national attention in the 1920s by helping spark the “Southern Literary Renaissance”, Hunter Stagg seemed to be on the fast track to literary infamy. Stagg served as book reviewer and acted as literary editor under the helm of Emily Tapscott...
A new Decemberists song via Stereogum from The...
January 2012
9 posts
From an email received about music piracy:
A musical “file” is not an item. It’s a piece of information that is stored on your computer. Providing information, although it is a useful service that can be charged for, is not like creating a tangible thing; once you share information you have no say in how the person chooses to use that information and if they wanted to give it to someone else for free. That would be like...
“After all, what is the difference between pretentiousness and seriousness? Only...”
– John Darnielle (via insomnius)
Yes. Correct. (via andrewtsks)
December 2011
29 posts
Watch@hipsterkidprobs dances himself clean to LCD Soundsystem
“How much of my brain is willfully my own? How much is not a rubber stamp of what...”
– Sylvia Plath (via zacheser)
“I thought, on the train, how utterly we have forsaken the Earth, in the sense of...”
– Wallace Stevens, in a 1904 note. (via washingtonpoststyle)
Wallace effing’ Stevens. That’s “relevant”, bitches!
Is it really shocking that Vonnegut was not a warm...
“Vonnegut definitely had survived a lot. His once wealthy family was impoverished by the Great Depression, causing grim strains in his parents’ marriage. His mother committed suicide. His beloved sister died of breast cancer, a day after her husband was killed in a train accident. But the defining horror of Vonnegut’s life was his wartime experience and surviving the Dresden...
The Roof on Fulton finally caved in...
decayedrichmond:
Wild stuff. Photos to come.
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