February 2012
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At the end of the day, this job is only really fun if you discover what no one...
– Charles Duhigg on journalism. (via thedeadline)
I would have played piano and then [gotten] Jason Segel and Walter the Muppet up...
– How Bret McKenzie would have staged his Oscar Performance of ‘Man or Muppet’ (via nprfreshair)
More: Even if they weren’t going to broadcast it, they could have them and then cut them. [Terry Gross interjects: ‘It’s a live show.’] Oh, it’s a live show. That’s the...
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Now if you’ll excuse me, I’m about to endorse 10 beers into my mouth, because...
– Knope 2012
(via joyengel)
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Lessons in basic skills
Me: Can I leave a voicemail?
Secretary: Sure. Just leave your name and number and he’ll call you back.
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Things I have watched the end of tonight:
WALL-E
Illinois v. Indiana basketball game
Goodfellas
Cliche Thought Catalog post
For awhile I swore by the mantra “we’re all exactly where we’re supposed to be.” It’s a comforting idea, and if you repeat it until you believe it you can use it to quiet down your restlessness. But it only really works when you’re actually satisfied. I don’t believe it consistently. We don’t always make the best choices for ourselves.
“On Finding the Right Place to Live”
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Asst. Sec. Lilly: Are you rewriting the section?
Will: Yes sir
Asst. Sec. Lilly: Dramatically?
Will: Well I like to think I have a certain flair.
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January 2012
22 posts
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What is there but a dream? You can’t trade in your dream for another...
– Viola Davis
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Someone somewhere has said something on that video if they’re from Chicago,”...
– Sh*t Chicagoans Say Video - redeyechicago.com
I’ve seen the video and it definitely plays more like “Shit Mathew Montalvo Says” than “Shit Chicagoans Say.”
(via ourmaninchicago)
Isn’t the goal of these that you’ve said everything if you are from X city? Largely unimpressed.
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'Breaking Bad' Star Aaron Paul: 'I Know How It... →
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The "Radiolab Effect" . . . Have You Felt It? →
jtotheizzoe:
Alexis Madrigal writes at The Atlantic:
… our cultural expectations of radio — funneled through different technological listening devices — are changing. It may be broadcast over traditional airwaves, but it’s webby. It feels interactive and interrogative rather than narrowly investigative. Abumrad and Krulwich aren’t coming from on high, but right there with the listener...
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7: Stole this one from Jaime: “2012 rule is you’re not allowed to complain...
– 20 New Year’s resolutions you can actually stick to, in response to Thought Catalog’s Resolutions for Twenty-Somethings. (via redeyechicago)
RedEye is on a mission to become the realistic alternative to Thought Catalog.
But folding endless stacks of tee shirts that shoppers are only so giddy to...
– Everyone Should Work A Service Job « Thought Catalog (via myownmelt)
Yep.
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See that box? The votes are in that box.
– Wolf Blitzer.
Thank goodness we have you to lead us through this confusing caucus process, sir.
December 2011
15 posts
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Actual note in a photo assignment today:
He (subject of photo) asked that if you go in the barn, don’t yell, because that upsets the cows and they start “shitting all over the place.”