June 2011
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“You know, a lot of people think they’re going to get to a nirvana of cooldom one...”
– Daphne Guinness (via simko)
Etienne, who said Loving reminded her of her own grandmother, started calling every few days. She asked Loving about how she and her husband endured their setbacks; Loving told her that she didn’t understand why two people who loved each other could not be married and express their love publicly. She talked, as she always did, about how much she loved Richard and what a kind, gentle man he was....
“Chasing shadows about the Internet does not much interest me. Field reporting in...”
– C.J. Chivers remains a badass.
WatchSo, this was pretty great.
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“The sun was going down, orange over the broken hills. The sunset filtered...”
– Charles P. Pierce recalls his days as a member of The National staff - Grantland
“Tom Lagomarcino could be the most durably admired candyman in America.”
– Quad-City candyman Lagomarcino dies
I worked for Tom, Jr. for five years in high school and early college. The above statement, as are all superlatives about the Lagos, is 100 percent true.
“What I’ve come to accept (and this is both good and bad, but mostly bad)...”
– Klosterman
“And here’s the best the part – YOU CAN DANCE HERE! 80,000 people surround you...”
– Daniel Rosenthal’s answer to ‘Why is U2 so popular?’ - Quora
Hey, it's a better explanation than "because he's...
As I ambled exhaustedly along, I decided that L.A. Noire is not a detective story at all. It is a parable about death and purgatory, a story of forgiveness. A man named Phelps went to war. He had his share of flaws, and in the midst of battle he made some bad decisions. Those decisions had repercussions that no one could have anticipated. Some of them were terrible, but then, war is terrible.
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