February 2012
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First Fig / Edna St. Vincent Millay
My candle burns at both ends;
It will not last the night;
But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends—
It gives a lovely light.
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John Peel's Records To Be Put Online →
John Peel’s record collection, consisting of around 25,000 vinyl LPs, is to be put online in virtual form for an Arts Council project entitled The Space, reports BBC News. Visitors to the site will be able to browse through some of his record collection. The Space’s website is currently blank, but the project, which is Arts Council funded, is set to commence in May.
Though his collection also...
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"If Psalms Aren't Poetry, They're Useless": An... →
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“A real education takes place, not in the lecture hall or library, but in the...”
– Stephen Fry
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“This is the way that pop ends, not with a bang but with a box set whose fourth...”
– Simon Reynolds, Retromania
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oh my god delilah's dating advice is the best
maura:
“this isn’t a catch him thing, girlfriend. he needs to show you that he is worthy of your time.”
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Thanks, NPR, for taking us back to 1956. →
tomewing:
The conversation around Pinterest has been really fascinating/revealing in terms of the tech and mainstream media’s reactions to a popular social media tool with a user base which doesn’t fit people’s ideas of the “early adopter” profile and interest set. (Tumblr had this too, though it wasn’t as blatant - tech sites mostly ignored it or rolled their eyes at the fact we weren’t all...
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Thanks, NPR, for taking us back to 1956. →
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Frank O'Hara / Ted Berrigan
Winter in the country, Southampton, pale horse
as the soot rises, then settles, over the pictures
The birds that were singing this morning have shut up
I thought I saw a couple kissing, but Larry said no
It’s a strange bird. He should know. & I think now
“Grandmother divided by monkey equals outer space.” Ron
put me in that picture. In another picture, a good-
looking poet is thinking it...
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“A man who gives a good account of himself is probably lying, since any life when...”
– George Orwell
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“The best thing about the bedroom was the bed. I liked to stay in bed for hours,...”
– Charles Bukowski
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ihateraymond asked: I wish, but no I did not. I am only a sophomore in high school! I got it at a college fair I went to recently. :-)
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