January 2010
6 posts
incidentally
I’d say the average age of the Tumblarity debaters was 17. It was like Model UN.
tumblarity debate
SHUT THE FUCK UP TO ANYONE CRYING ABOUT “TUMBLARITY”
HAVE YOU NO SELF WORTH? PATHETHIC.
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good morning tumblr :)
what a great morning gift,
tumblarity is gone. HUZZAH!
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hmmmmm
In cooking on the computa on tumbla heheheh
no tumblarity? whoooooo
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Man, I keep looking over at my tumblarity.
And then I realize it’s not there anymore, would I be a hypocrite if...
moses
I spoke a little while ago on this tumblr about the internet’s annoying inferiority complex and, well, I sort of believe that (that it has one). But today I was reading this Times article about Robert Caro and Robert Moses from 2007 and was taken aback by this sentence:
Unusual in an age when sentence fragments on a blog pass for intellectual argument and “definitive” accounts have...
better world books?
The question of whether to link to Amazon when you’re making a book recommendation is a vexed question. Not long ago a reader of this blog chastised me and said I should link to Powell’s instead. Powell’s is a physical bookstore and buying books from them helps keep them physical, over there in Portland. But I am a cheapskate, and my readers are also cheapskates, and Amazon has...
parable
When they came for the travel agents, I said nothing, because I am not a travel agent. When they came for the music industry, I said nothing, because I am not a music industrialist. And when the internet came for Lee Siegel, I also said nothing, because I am not Lee Siegel.
So when the internet installed itself on my car’s dashboard, and I really badly wanted to check my email, I crashed my...
