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Link Party: 3/20-3/24
This week I got promoted (!) and spent much of my work time planning a few projects that are not only going to make a positive difference in many students’ experiences, but make me feel more creatively fulfilled than ever before. I know that I’m exactly where I’m supposed to be. Here’s what I’ve ready lately: 1.…
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Link Party: 1/11-1/15
Here’s what I read this week: 1. On Sunday at 11:30 p.m. I got a New York Times notification that David Bowie had died, which left me feeling empty as I tried to sleep and gutted at the beginning of the week. I remember the very first time and the very first Bowie song I listened…
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Link Party: 11/30-12/4
Here’s what I read this week: 1. Read about the original culinary road warriors and their quest to document American cuisine. 2. Sifting through the trash of San Francisco to find art. 3. Tattoos in the fine art world. 4. I didn’t know a lot about SoulCycle besides it being a very expensive spin class, but after reading…
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Link Party: 9/21-9/25
Here’s what I read this week: 1. I loved this essay about annotating Alice in Wonderland and the contemporary connection of Genius. This is the kind of literary analysis content I’m here for. 2. The influence of Kanye West’s “808s and Heartbreak” on the rap world of 2015. 3. A French history of fancy frames. 4.…
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Link Party: 8/3-8/7
I had a really difficult time this week getting interested in what I was reading and finding stuff to write about — the motivation for a forthcoming blog post. Here’s what I read that I actually found insightful: 1. Adventures in typography. 2. Infiltrating a white pride Facebook group and turning it into a LGBT Southerners for…
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Link Party: 7/27-7/31
I’d like to know where July went. Please tell me. Anyway, here’s what I read this week: 1. iTunes is the worst re: metadata. 2. You all are sleeping on the Arctic Monkeys, but the South Americans are not. This article also has some interesting things to say about South America infrastructure and the power of…
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Link Party: 4/27-5/1
Here’s what I read this week: 1. A fascinating mini-profile on Louis Sarno, a musicologist that lives amongst the Bayaka in the Central African Republic. 2. It’s okay to run through The Six with your woes and then cry about it, Drake. 3. What the new Twitter Highlights tells us about Twitter and ourselves. 4.…
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Link Party: 3/2-3/6
Here’s what I read this week: 1. Someone mapped out all of Drake’s references to Toronto. 2. An interesting look at forensic linguistics. 3. Daniel Norris is a millionaire and the future of the Toronto Blue Jays, but he lives in a Volkswagen bus outside of a Wal-Mart. 4. Kanye West’s talk at Oxford is everything.…
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Link Party: 2/16-2/20
This week was not a good one for me, creatively or academically. But I’m bouncing back, and will have more posts next week. But here’s what I was able to read: 1. I like to think that this profile of The New Yorker query proofreader Mary Norris is a projection of my future. 2. Ruth Bader…
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Link Party: 1/12-1/16
Weird, weird, weird week. But here’s what I read: 1. A fascinating article about whether or not homelessness in Sim City is a bug or a feature. 2. With the help of her friends, Joan Traub Ades helps student musicians in the Manhattan School of Music find outfits for performances. 3. The working life of Gwyned Filling, the poster…