August 2011
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YM Intern Peer Review by Daniel
Christian: Christian probably best embodied the YM attitude, although sometimes I found myself wishing he’d take a firmer stance on his “image”: Was he the straight-up slacker, or the guy who pretended to be a slacker while actually completing his assignments properly and on time? He cared just the right amount about this internship, but...
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YM Intern Peer Review by QED Not wanting to give unfair advantage or cause undue hurt feelings, I decided to evaluate my peers using a quiz from the official company handbook, YM Magazine. I determined that both Christian and Daniel are, indeed, “ready for a boyfriend”, if they so choose. In fact, both received the highest rating of “Ms. Well-adjusted McMaturity.” Here are...
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YM Intern Peer Review by Christian
QED: I was going to pick a song to represent each of the other interns, but I couldn’t find a song that conveyed “she amused me on GChat when I was bored.” So I dropped that plan. QED was the mysterious intern, with an unknowable life. She had the ability to talk to a statue, and she put enough work into her playlist to make sure they all had...
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Rejected Titles of Miles Klee's First Novel
Finite Jest
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Dubstep
New-Jersey, or The Whale
In Search of Lost Drugs
Anesthetize and Punish
Freedom
The Digressions
Slouching Towards I N C E P T I O N
Gravity’s 9/11
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Gratuitous Link To News About Oneself →
thenotes:
“Miles Klee, a copy editor at The Deal, has sold his first novel to OR Books.”
It’s about 9/11. In a snowstorm.
Bachmann also told an AIPAC gathering earlier this... →
May I suggest My Name is Rachel Corrie?
(via)
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“isWhen I look at people who are stars in the gay world — Margaret Cho or Kathy...”
– Penny Arcade (via eliotglazer)
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On assignment
Hello. Krucoff has tasked me with seeking out Julia Allison at Burning Man. So you don’t have to. You don’t say no to Krucoff. Well, I mean you can, what’s he gonna do, dude only has 7 fingers. But still. Anyway, I hear there will be internet access this year. I wish that was a joke. However, the upside for you is the possibility of real-time photos of Ms. Allison in full Burning...
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Inked Writers Society
negevrockcity:
If you’re like me, you stay up and try to figure out what a good journalism-themed tattoo would be.
Rats fucking each other?
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squeela:
I met the girl who had had the exact job as me, and in the exact same place, for the first time in her apartment in the Tenderloin. Her buzzer didn’t work either so I texted and she came downstairs to let me in. She had red curly hair. Her apartment was nearly empty; we sat in the kitchen and she smoked a cigarette. We talked for two hours, although we agreed that some things she...
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brianvan:
Everything’s better on an iPad. Except the media.
Sure, everyone has their favorite eras but they all inevitably suck. Some sooner than others.
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Is Rick Perry Dumb? | Obama | Rick Perry |... →
skybarn:
Well, we’ve reached the bottom. Stop wondering when that would happen. Drink more Brawndo. It’s got electrolytes.
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Q: Did Michael Jackson Learn The Moonwalk From A...
A: Probably not, but let’s write a piece about it anyway.
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wrote a vma postmortem. →
maura:
called kreayshawn a nitwit, hooray.
Remember when you thought your friends would change the world?
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Did you watch the VMA's last night?
Congrats. You’re part of the problem.
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mikehudack:
“Corporations are getting better and better at seducing us into thinking the way they think—of profits as the telos and responsibility as something to be enshrined in symbol and evaded in reality. Cleverness as opposed to wisdom. Wanting and having instead of thinking and making. We cannot stop it. I suspect what’ll happen is that there will be some sort of disaster—depression,...
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Before you make that passionate and illuminating argument that attempts to dissect the two competing theories in Chuck Scarborough’s Natural Disaster Preparedness and Aftermath Psychology: How the Media, Government and Public React in the Age of Social Media, I hope you have AT LEAST READ all the Greek classics plus Gustave Le Bon’s La psychologie des foules, Bob McChesney,...
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Not having read the book, it's impossible to say... →
Gowanus Superfund site residents stay put despite...
mobius1ski:
Brooklyn residents alongside the Gowanus Canal were staying put this Saturday despite an evacuation order from the City of New York. The Gowanus Canal is a federally registered Superfund cleanup site, considered lethally toxic to humans.
As New York Magazine reported earlier today:
When Hurricane Irene hits the New York area on Sunday, the neighborhoods surrounding...
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"Hurricane Irene is reported to have already... →
Is a news update we hope we don’t see. Stay safe out there, long-time YM contributor Matt Ealer.
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My hacking cough has a character arc like...
Current development: phlegmy.
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lieslieslies:
For the first time in four days I stopped thinking of Miranda. Her absent notch in my spine filled with curiosity and I stood up straight with hope and thought. For some reason my head throbbed with ideas of murder. I was jilted, sure, but I wasn’t thinking of ending the life of anyone involved in our shipwreck. I thought of murder because I thought of evidence and I thought of...
lieslieslies:
I’d hate to look back on this as something terribly important. I’d like to think that I should be doing something that I’d like to see in a documentary on myself decades later. Some generations are lucky enough to have been a part of something that felt larger than they were. Or made them so. Being a part of the punk movement or the Lost generation, etc. And what do so many of us...
lieslieslies:
Then she moved and part of me stayed on that bed forever. I never told her that I wanted to turn her on like Timothy Leary like Carl Sagan like satin-wrapped baseball bats. She must have known. She let me in to her bedroom.
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Wrapped in soaked sheets, clawing our way through yet another Indian summer, pressing our skin to each other’s skin, as if we were trying to make copies of our pores, pushing inside one another, her legs trembling with each thrust, I nestled my mouth in the bay of her ear and whispered: tell me when to go.
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