July 2008
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Hipsters are so bad, blah blah blah →
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Watchjuliaallison:
Conversation with Chris Anderson, Editor-in-Chief of WIRED. 45 minutes edited down into 5. Sad.
I interviewed Chris Anderson a couple of years ago, for this Sydney Morning Herald piece. It was a bit of a career highlight at that point. And he told me that my questions were good and that I was one of the few journalists he’d spoken to who actually appeared to have read an...
Ten Most Worthless College Majors →
latenightliz:
unicornology:
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Mine’s #4. All my best friends’ majors (music therapy, film, etc) are there too. Sa-weet.
Raising you a #4 and #6. I’m disappointed gender studies wasn’t on the list too. Then I could have made a trifecta.
“Everyone loves an enthusiastic person! Except for really grumpy people, but who...”
– Gala Darling, How to Ace a Job Interview
You know what totally sucks?
When you return to one of your Favourite Books Ever to figure out what makes it so great in the hope of emulating it, and realise that perhaps it wasn’t so good after all and it was only the fact that you first read it when you were 19 that made it seem so.
Yes, this happened to me the other day.
I need a new book to hold up as an example of well-constructed, insightful, ground-breaking...
Starbucks to close 61 of its 84 stores in...
dadsandmice:
I would call this a win for the small business man/woman, and for all the local coffee spots around the country. But the fact is, as most Australians know, Starbucks Coffee is shithouse. It is the most disgusting and vile tasting coffee I have ever encountered. And don’t get me started on whatever crappy soy milk they use. Vomit.
It is obvious we are not buying into the mega chain....
“All procrastinators put off things they have to do. Structured procrastination...”
– John Perry, structuredprocrastination.com
via saramcpherson {procrastinatrix}
(via everythingontheinternetistrue)
So true of me. Like, right now, I’m putting off sleep.
The Suicide Solution →
by Barbara Ehrenreich, via Huffington Post.
Suicide is becoming an increasingly popular response to debt. James Scurlock’s brilliant documentary, Maxed Out, features the families of two college students who killed themselves after being overwhelmed by credit card debt. “All the people we talked to had considered suicide at least once,” Scurlock told a gathering of the...
britticisms: toomuchawesome:
Le Tigre -...
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Good response to the previous question by bite of... →
In Response To JGH
clembastow:
jgh:
POLL FOR MAH TUMBLR GIRLZ:
Have you ever noticed that “older guys”, as a general rule, tend to love your body a whole lot more? The guys my own age I’ve dated always have some critical-ass thing to say about my “fat thighs” or “huge belly” because they expect a supermodel or something and I’m not some 100-pound tan Tri Delt or whatever.
I get the most...
Quick question
I’m thinking of selling (or, more likely, giving away) my CD collection.
Explanation: I’ll be moving house in a few weeks and am trying to cut down the sheer number of “things” I own.
Question is, if I do, will I regret this in years to come, when the iPod is over (or simply breaks down, or my computer spontaneously decides to delete my iTunes) and I need to transfer my...
Goodbye Body Love, hello Body Honesty →
Cleo launches its Body Honesty campaign.
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Advice to my 22-year-old self
jgh:
I turn 22 about a month from now — August 20th. Leo baby! (People usually guess I’m 26 or 27. Does this mean I look old or act older than my age? Hmm.)
Tell me, Tumblr advice would you give your 22-year-old self? Alternately, if you’re also turning 22, how do you plan to celebrate your terrible two redux?
On work: Be patient. Your loftly dreams will frequently seem impossible over...
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Embarrassing AIM handles you had when you were a...
kiamatthews:
jgh:
Assignment is self-explanatory: reblog with any ridiculous AIM handles you had as a tween.
I’ll start, in honor of the latest X-Files flick: when I was 13, my AIM was ScullyJess.
Your turn!
JCsAddiction, because in my mind, JC Chasez (of Nsync) was in love with me just as much as I was in love with him.
Now I’ll go kill myself.
Leonardo’s Bride, for similar...
Also - I cracked and got a twitter →
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“It’s the weekend. Help reduce weekend e-mail overload for both you and your...”
– Since late 2006, PricewaterhouseCoopers employees logging on to work e-mail on Saturdays and Sundays have been greeted with this text in a pop-up window. Businessweek (via somethingchanged)
Love it.
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“One oddity of the internet revolution has been that, while it changed the face...”
– “Digital Dickens: How Scott Sigler is changing the way we read,” The Independent (via rkb)
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Caroline McCarthy: telling it like it is to... →
“Along the way we plucked up a couple of n+1 interns, underage Lolitas in slutty...”
– Au Revoir, New York ‘Literary’ Scene (Jessica Roy, via NY Mag) (via tumbledore) (via yumwatch)
Amazingly, this isn’t the grossest part of the article.
Kurt Vonnegut: How to Write With Style →
Newspaper reporters and technical writers are trained to reveal almost nothing about themselves in their writings. This makes them freaks in the world of writers, since almost all of the other ink-stained wretches in that world reveal a lot about themselves to readers. We call these revelations, accidental and intentional, elements of style.
These revelations tell us as readers what sort of...
Facebook never forgets - Los Angeles Times
fluffynotes:
It’s one thing to hear that your elected representative had a wild time in college. It’s entirely different to have pictorial proof. Would you still vote for someone after viewing a photograph of him passed out in his own vomit?
This isn’t just a thought experiment. The next generation of political leaders is coming of age right now — and it’s unlikely that any one of them will...
“I told him that writing, especially writing about myself and my surroundings,...”
– Emily Gould, that article.
This isn’t always a bad thing, though. It can be quite beautiful to see yourself through the eyes of someone who loves you, particularly when that someone can write.
Not so good at break-up time, though.
Reading your own press
In the vein of Brad, Angelina, Tom, Katie and their paper shredders, one of the high profile bloggers I interviewed for the story I’m working on at the moment said she purposely doesn’t read what people write about her online.
This may well be a wise course of action.
But if blogging is about conversation, does that constitute opting out of it? I’ve always kind of liked how...
“There is a storied history of bright women writers (many of whom are mentioned...”
– Rebecca Traiser on Emily Gould. Six weeks old, but relevant to my research tonight.
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“Binkel called for a renewal of an adversary culture – the young writers of...”
– All The Sad Young Literary Men, by Gawker-maligned Tumblr Keith Gessen, has some gems in it - this being just one of them.
As I wrote in my diary earlier today, in response:
Being a dishonest - or, perhaps more accurately, cowardly - writer dilutes the purpose of being one in the first place....
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Plastic Fantastic →
I have a piece in Sunday Life magazine today (it comes free with the Sun-Herald and Sunday Age) on cosmetic surgery - a for and against type thing. (I was the ‘against’).
See if you can spot the Tumblr reference!
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Untangling sexiness, sex and childhood →
Finally uploaded my Australian Literary Review piece (published a week and a half ago) to the net.
A brief excerpt:
We all know sex sells, but it’s simplistic to assume that’s the only reason people write about it. Sex catches our attention and holds it because it’s at once/both deeply personal and profoundly political. Rather than a way of avoiding big ideas, as often as not,...
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“Obama told Clinton she looked somewhat rested. Clinton said she was, somewhat,...”
– Obama And Clinton: On Stage In New York And On Topic With Women
The sad this is that this is no doubt true. Can you imagine a woman running for a position of power without immaculately styled hair?
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