March 2012
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thesludgefeast asked: Hello. Long time reader, first time admirer. Just wanted to say I'm a big fan, but I do not agree with your opinions on 90s computer culture. I actually study modern culture, focusing my thesis on computer culture surrounding the popular rise of the internet and find that joke to be actually really funny. You just must not get it.
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Voice of the Hamster →
This is one of Thomas Pynchon’s earliest fictional pieces, written and published whilst he was still in high school. It is better than anything you have written or ever will write.
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Totalitarian Control of Jazz
The Nazis provided detailed instruction for those wishing to perform jazz in occupied countries. These were the guidelines:
1 Pieces in foxtrot rhythm (so-called swing) are not to exceed 20% of the repertoires of light orchestras and dance bands; 2 in this so-called jazz type repertoire, preference is to be given to compositions in a major key and to lyrics expressing joy in life rather than...
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The first rule of book club is: you do not talk...
tumblrbot asked: WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE INANIMATE OBJECT?
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“I don’t even consider myself wealthy.”
– Ann Romney, wife of Republican Presidential candidate Mitt Romney, joint owner of a two hundred and fifty million dollar fortune.
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It's funny how much importance parents place on...
mrdestructo:
Like, “I can’t believe you would question how seriously I take this marriage. What if the kids heard?”
Trust me, they heard, and five minutes later they went right back to obsessing over whether The Shadowman is real or whether it’s theoretically possible for:
a. sharks to live under carpeting;
b. carpet sharks to eat people;
c. them to leap from the threshold of their room onto...
