September 2011
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Anonymous asked: I have applied to Australia, will i get Visa?
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Steve Lopez: I'm going back to the video store
Steve Lopez: I’m going back to the video store:
Videotheque is the answer. The store, on Mission Street near the Gold Line train station, is a celebration of film, with classic movie posters lining the walls as if the store itself were a museum. And they’ve got everything at Videotheque, where owner Mark Wright and his staff seem to love both movies and customers.
On Monday,...
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Watchrawkblog:
World’s most adorable “Hallelujah” cover. The harmony at 2:21 is wrenching.
Simple, awesome cover of an always moving song.
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Income inequality and high/low-end retail growth
Increasing income inequality and a shrinking middle class has led to an “hour-glass” shaped picture of the American consumer; “hour-glass” meaning consumers are buying more low-end and high-end products than those priced for the traditional middle class.
From “As Middle Class Shrinks, P&G Aims High and Low” in the Wall Street Journal: “The...
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Hasn't happened so often on my part, but...
fuckyeahanthropologymajorfox:
Picture[Background — a six piece pie style colour split, alternating purple and green. Foreground — a picture of a fox. Top text: “Get drunk and yell about racism in the social sciences.” Bottom text: “No fun at parties.]
Submitted by shevralay.
…could see it happening. Maybe it’d be more general than the social sciences. And without the yelling.
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Percentage of Americans Living in Poverty Rises to... →
The recession has continued pushing 25-to-34-year-olds to move in with family and friends to save money. Of that group, nearly half were living below the poverty line, when their parents’ incomes were excluded. The poverty level for a single person under the age of 65 was $11,344.
“We’re risking a new underclass,” said Timothy Smeeding, director of the Institute for Research and Poverty at the...
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Exquisite Corpse #5
ourexquisitecorpse:
Then we found the old place, with all its corners intact. Those times were silly, those kisses and caresses. She had an unusual presence about her. The sky opened up and showed there was nothing above, except a burden to bear, my burdens laid bare. ...
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Phone-in post while camping at Thornhill Broome...
princessxkelsey asked: i think your blog is fascinating.
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From August 1, 2011
Catch up with this after travel north to see friends. A risk taken in the car leads to revealing conversation.
I am part of a group where August is “Poetry Postcard Month”; each day of August we send one poem to one person on a list of 31 people. In late July/early August I took a trip up to Los Osos to visit some friends: thus my first poem.
Since August 1st I have written one poem...
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“Amid the cheerleading over recent events in the Middle East, it’s easy to forget...”
– Political Repression 2.0 By EVGENY MOROZOV
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