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remains of the day jan 7 2012

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1.7.2011. A beautiful day in the Northwest. Springwater Corridor Trail, Portland, Oregon.

  • A typically glum and jaded former Seattleite bitches about Portlandia. Full disclaimer, I love June Thomas.
  • re: that autism story I linked to a couple of days ago, the story behind the best NYT correction ever.
  • My congressman (and I use the term loosely), Elton Gallegly of CA-24, is retiring. Great news. Maybe my majority-Latino district can finally get representation that doesn’t hate us. Hopefully SOPA will be the last in a long line of legislative defeats for the spineless, ambitionless backbencher.
  • Still hung up on Nina:

remains of the day for 3 jan 2012

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  • Unintended consequences? DEA quotas mean that there are nationwide shortages of ADD & ADHD medication. Oh, and it’s also allowing the drug companies to create artificial scarcities to force patients to switch from generics to the more expensive branded versions of the same drug.
  • Are you a music person? Do you want to try and teach your friends basic music theory? Then I have a tabletop card game for you!
  • Great New Yorker profile of Sleater-Kinney/Portlandia star Carrie Brownstien. It’s a pretty nice article, and very Portland. It’s the kind of article that will probably make me nostalgic in about ten years, once I forget how awful.. uh… now is.
  • Speaking of the New Yorker, here’s a highbrow article wondering if the magazine is highbrow or lowbrow. I know I went through a few phases, including thinking it was what rich, smart people read, to hating the magazine for its stupid captions and bland design, to becoming addicted to their profiles and reportage.
  • Being fat sucks.
  • Yayoi Kusama’s The Obliteration Room:



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