“She had to learn not to be afraid of a man, the way, in your childhood, you learned not be afraid of an earthworm or a bug.”
–Lorrie Moore, Like Life
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![thedailywhat:
Weekend Read of the Day: Esquire columnist Stephen Marche investigates how Facebook and social media have made us more densely networked — and more lonely — than ever.
Within this world of instant and absolute communication, unbounded by limits of time or space, we suffer from unprecedented alienation. We have never been more detached from one another, or lonelier. In a world consumed by ever more novel modes of socializing, we have less and less actual society. We live in an accelerating contradiction: the more connected we become, the lonelier we are. We were promised a global village; instead we inhabit the drab cul-de-sacs and endless freeways of a vast suburb of information.
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Weekend Read of the Day: Esquire columnist Stephen Marche investigates how Facebook and social media have made us more densely networked — and more lonely — than ever.
Within this world of instant and absolute communication, unbounded by limits of time or space, we suffer from unprecedented alienation. We have never been more detached from one another, or lonelier. In a world consumed by ever more novel modes of socializing, we have less and less actual society. We live in an accelerating contradiction: the more connected we become, the lonelier we are. We were promised a global village; instead we inhabit the drab cul-de-sacs and endless freeways of a vast suburb of information.
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Posted 2 months ago
THis is fucking insane. currently listening and starts off great. pretty sure metronomy shows up here somewhere.
Posted 2 months ago
Animal Collective’s Summertime Clothes
not in my wildest dreams…
Posted 2 months ago
I always feel like running
Not away, because there is no such place
Because, if there was I would have found it by now
Because it’s easier to run,
Easier than staying and finding out you’re the only one…who didn’t run
Because running will be the way your life and mine will be described
Not away, because there is no such place
Because, if there was I would have found it by now
Because it’s easier to run,
Easier than staying and finding out you’re the only one…who didn’t run
Because running will be the way your life and mine will be described
Posted 2 months ago
Movie Trailer of the Day: First official trailer for the Tim Burton-directed, Seth Grahame-Smith-penned big-screen adaption of cult TV show Dark Shadows.
Synopsis:
In 1752, the Collins family sails from Liverpool, England to North America. The son, Barnabas (Johnny Depp), grows up to be a wealthy playboy in Collinsport, Maine and is the master of Collinwood Manor. He breaks the heart of a witch, Angelique Bouchard (Eva Green), who turns him into a vampire and buries him alive. In 1972, Barnabas is accidentally freed from his coffin and returns to find his once-magnificent manor in ruin. It is occupied by dysfunctional Collins descendants and other residents, all of whom have secrets.
The film, which also stars Helena Bonham Carter, Michelle Pfeiffer, Johnny Lee Miller, Chloë Moretz, Gulliver McGrath, and Jackie Earle Haley, is set to open wide May 11th.
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Posted 3 months ago
The Future Ver. 2.0 of the Day: Last year, Corning introduced a hi-tech future of form and function made possible through the wonders of highly engineered glass.
This year, the company expands on its vision by looking at additional applications, both at home and in the world writ large, for its technologically advanced glass-based gadgets.
A companion video below describes each technology shown above in detail, and provides additional information on what’s possible now and what’s not possible just yet.
[thanks kate!]
Posted 7 months ago
old perspectives packaged as something new
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