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The Best Albums of 2011

Yeah, I’m late. I get it. Building this shiny new site took precedent. Regardless, enjoy! 30. Dirty Beaches – Badlands Currently, nothing sounds like this. Film noir chic forced through neglected diner speakers. 29. Cut Copy – Zonoscope An expansive/minimalist smorgasbord of dance/rock/glam experimentation. Tack on headphones and a rolling sidewalk and you’ve got yourself a...

Jan 27th

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The Rise of the New Groupthink →

youmightfindyourself: By SUSAN CAIN // illustration by Andy Rementer NY TIMES Published: January 13, 2012 SOLITUDE is out of fashion. Our companies, our schools and our culture are in thrall to an idea I call the New Groupthink, which holds that creativity and achievement come from an oddly gregarious place. Most of us now work in teams, in offices without walls, for managers who prize people...

Jan 17th

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In Which I Sandbag The Non-Evitable, A Short...

All of the peripherals scream at each other, with each other and against the rails in hopes of standing out. Sports journalism comes in two varieties: the ones that break down actions responsibly and tactfully and the ones that act as degenerate gamblers in order to pronounce, “I TOLD YOU I WAZ RIGHT!” The first typically comes mid-week during the lull, the latter comes during horrible...

Jan 15th

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This is me getting my shit together.

Apologies, it’s taking a while. There’s a lot of shit. Not shit in the figurative sense but the literal, a fuckton of steaming shit and my tiny shovel trying to organize it into proper shit piles. Has shit ever killed a man? Let’s find out. Newness ASAP. Hopefully, with a shitless facelift.

Jan 4th

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