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Quote reblogged from Millions MillionsGeneration Y, those born between 1979 and 1989, spent the most money on books in 2011, taking over long-held book-buying leadership from baby boomers…with 43 percent of GenY’s purchases going to online channels, they are adding momentum to the industry shift to digital.
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My Left Foot, 1989 (dir. Jim Sheridan)
Starring Patrick Stickles of Titus Andronicus.
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Photo reblogged from Fake Criterions
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They Live [1988]
An email submission from Andrew Ledwedge for Faked From the Dead.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mbdet547GE1qf1yxjo1_500.jpg)
They Live [1988]
An email submission from Andrew Ledwedge for Faked From the Dead.
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Audio post reblogged from Mark Richardson
Never really thought about having a “favorite month” but today it occurred to me that it’s September. Here is one for its last day: the Replacements covering Big Star. Pretty hard to fuck up this song and they don’t even come close. I was listening to this tonight in the laundromat and it occurred to me that as a pop song “September Gurls” is perfect. It goes for a mix of joy, yearning, and heartbreak and nails it; there is no way it could be improved. I might like this version a little more than the original but this voice has been familiar to me for much longer. It comes from the live boot Shit, Shower & Shave and the whole thing is great. Recorded in 1989. I saw them on this tour at Pine Knob.
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Quote reblogged from The Paris ReviewMy only piece of advice before recommending some titles would be: don’t fall for the inferiority/superiority racket. We’re not on a ladder here. We’re on a web. Right now you’re experiencing a desire to become more aware of and sensitive to its other strands. That feeling you’re having is culture. Whatever feeds that, go with it. And never forget that well-educated people pretend to know on average at least two-thirds more books than they’ve actually read.John Jeremiah Sullivan answers a reader’s question on book recommendations, but he also gives a great definition of culture while doing so.
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Video reblogged from Millions Millions
The perpetually excellent Helen DeWitt has a story featured in Electric Literature’s Recommended Reading series.
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Photo reblogged from Millions Millions
“Everyone knows Old Custer died at Little Bighorn. What this novel presupposes is… Maybe he didn’t?”
I would totally read the books from the fictional world of The Royal Tenenbaums.
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Post reblogged from Old Time Family Baseball
Despite the irrational love shown for baseball cards, people sure have forgotten about the second greatest of cardboard-based collectibles: The POG! Just because no one has ever really known what to do with them, doesn’t mean they should be cast aside. After all, isn’t uselessness the high point of hobbies?
That said, here are the greatest of baseball pogs:
How better to honor the memory of the Negro Leagues and its players than by poggin’ it? That’s what it’s called right, poggin’ it? [ebay]
Is there anything that says 1993 better than a pog set of Shaquille O’Neal and Ken Griffey Jr? Yes, one thing: a pog set featuring The Fly Girls from In Living Color and Bill Clinton playing the saxophone. [ebay]
What do these pogs tell us? Either their creator could travel through time or someone thought it would be a good idea to create pogs sometime after 1997. [ebay]
Expos pogs, okay? Expos pogs.There’s not even a joke here because these are Expos pogs. And that makes them the best. [ebay]
I love everything about this post. Thank you.
