GOOD MORNING MIDNIGHT: Archive

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Dec 1st

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Nov 30th

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Nov 29th

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Nov 29th

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Dinosaurs are for boys (girls allowed) →

This amused me a lot, largely because I was totally obsessed with dinosaurs as a kid. This probably had more to do with my mother’s vague distaste for Barbies and obsession with encouraging me to do sciencey stuff (who else remembers this book? this book was basically the coolest thing ever, I hope I still have the magnet from it sitting around somewhere. I think this thing entertained me...

Nov 27th

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Nov 25th

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Nov 24th

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Nov 23rd

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Believe - Macha & Bedhead Macha & Bedhead covering Cher, which somehow I’d never heard before. The autotune is completely hilarious and I think its incongruity here here (on a sleepy ‘indietronica’/’slowcore’ track circa Y2K) points out just how accustomed + oblivious we’ve gotten to hearing that on female vocals and more upbeat dance/hip hop...

Nov 22nd

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Nov 22nd

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Times Online | 'Girls can follow fashion without... →

BREAKING NEWS, LADIES!!!!!! THE UK NEWSMEDIA HAS DETERMINED THAT THERE ACTUALLY ISN’T A NEGATIVE CORRELATION BETWEEN OUR OUR SHOE COLLECTIONS AND OUR IQ’S!!

Nov 19th

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the new yorker | ariel levy - lift and separate →

But, if feminism becomes a politics of identity, it can safely be drained of ideology. Identity politics isn’t much concerned with abstract ideals, like justice. It’s a version of the old spoils system: align yourself with other members of a group—Irish, Italian, women, or whatever—and try to get a bigger slice of the resources that are being allocated. If a demand for revolution is tamed into a...

Nov 19th

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Nov 17th

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Nov 17th

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Nov 16th

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Nov 16th

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brooklyn fail

You know, I started out writing this long-ass ranty intellectual post about why NY Mag’s feature on the ‘Brooklyn scene’ and the Dirty Projectors and how, like, this guy Todd P is totally changing the world got really under my skin and somehow made me kinda depressed. Like about how they DO actually start to get to this good point they make about Brooklyn as a...

Nov 12th

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Nov 12th

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Nov 11th

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Students suspended for using the word "meep" →

AND FACEBOOK IS CLEARLY RESPONSIBLE FOR THE DEGRADATION OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE! KIDS TODAY!!11!!!11 As Language Log put it, you’d seriously think this was from The Onion — yet it’s pathetically still completely believable. (More or less ridiculous than the NYT’s memorable HUGGING EXPOSE?) meep.

Nov 10th

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