September 2011
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“I feel bad we support our family for three years with this, the community likes...”
– from “It’s Curtains for Unity Market”
This makes me so sad. Adios, Mercado Unido.
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“And then there’s the shofar. Although it is traditionally blasted (that’s the...”
– Tablet’s Rosh Hashanah FAQ. L’shana tova, tumblr. Hope the new year is a blast.
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“We have a lot of gentrifiers who are blogging, who are tweetering,” he...”
– the ever quotable Marion Barry, from “Marion Barry Calls for Gentrification Commission.
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“They have mastered the arts of whining and predation, without regard to logic or...”
– Malcom Gladwell, “The Nets and NBA Economics.”
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“So this isn’t genocide or Palestine or globalization or another geographically...”
– James Downie, “Why ‘Occupy Wall Street’?”
The media coverage of the protests in New York has been mostly dismissive and condescending. Sure, “Occupy Wall Street” is flawed for so many reasons, but few commentators or journalists seem to take seriously the mostly...
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“In the end, rivalries are barely connected to contemporary reality — like...”
– Marc Tracy, “Cowboys and Redskins: Hail Victory!”
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We don’t allow neutrinos in here, said the bartender.
A faster-than-light neutrino walks into a bar.
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“It is in positive quest of an identity of some sort, much rather—an identity...”
– Henry James, from The American Scene
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“I think you must be enabled to understand the anomaly of the district of...”
– James Fenimore Cooper, from Notions of the Americans: picked up by a traveling bachelor
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The Bicycle: Art on Two Wheels - November/December... →
I love that it will be warm in D.C. pretty much up through November; glad I decided to stick around. I just bought a new water-bottle cage for my bike, which, I learned, perfectly holds a burrito.
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“A recent report from the Education Trust, arising originally from a...”
– John Quiggin, “Cutthroat Admissions and Rising Inequality: A Vicious Duo,” The Chronicle of Higher Education
In education inequality, D.C., as is often the case, exemplifies a larger trend, I think. The District has some of the most expensive schools in the country, which prepare...
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“They were shown as everything is shown, for, like the lens of a camera, history...”
– Tom Junod, “The Falling Man,” Esquire, 2003
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“Revolutions devour their children. The spoils go to the resolute, the patient,...”
– Hussein Agha and Robert Malley, “The Arab Counterrevolution,” NYRB
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“Every morning brings us the news of the globe, and yet we are poor in noteworthy...”
– Walter Benjamin, from “The Storyteller” 1936
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You May Say I'm A Dreamer
I have been dreaming a lot lately. Well, really, I have been remembering my dreams. Perhaps what is more notable (to me, at least) is that I am aware of my dreams, aware that I am dreaming while I am having the dream. It’s like following directions to a friend’s house only to realize you’re standing in front of her door. This self-awareness affects my dreams too. For example, I had a dream where...
