Posts Tagged ‘Nirvana’
Sunday Won’t Procrastinate Itself: Links!
* A City Where Everyone Works, There Is No Police, And The Salary Is 1200 Euros.
* This piece and the comments (read both) constitute one of the only serious or substantive discussions of Laura Kipnis’s CHE pieces I’ve seen. I just finished a long and frustrating but possibly ultimately consensus-building Facebook debate about the minutiae of this thing, so I’m basically an expert on the case now.
* “With its new flavor, Save Our Swirled, Ben & Jerry’s is urging fans to dig their spoons into climate change activism.” That’s solve it!
* California’s Snowpack Is Now Zero Percent of Normal.
* It’s so hot in India the roads are melting.
* For those who want to build a stronger left in the US, there is no substitute for the work — however slow and painstaking it might be — of building social movements and struggles at the grassroots and of organizing a political alternative independent of the Democratic Party.
* ‘American Universities Are Addicted to Chinese Students.’
* Black dolls and American culture.
* Jessica Springsteen, born to jump.
* How Comedians Became Public Intellectuals.
* PROFS Statement on Joint Finance Committee Action on UW System Budget. UW Struggle: Final Update. An Idiot’s Guide to the Tenure Process. Don’t mourn, organize. In all its glory.
* Can academics really “have it all”?
* To understand why and how often these shootings occur, The Washington Post is compiling a database of every fatal shooting by police in 2015, as well as of every officer killed by gunfire in the line of duty. The Post looked exclusively at shootings, not killings by other means, such as stun guns and deaths in police custody.
* Boing Boing covers Rashida Jones’s “amateur porn” documentary Hot Girls Wanted.
* Science proves music really was better back then.
* It also proves nothing likes being eaten.
* Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal and Philosophy: 1, 2.
* The Wire, but for Israel/Palestine.
* And the arc of history is long, but production on TRON 3 has been shut down.
Thursday Night Links
* Everybody’s getting richer except actual human beings.
* In 2002, a novel thought to be the first written by an African-American woman became a best seller, praised for its dramatic depiction of Southern life in the mid-1850s through the observant eyes of a refined and literate house servant. But one part of the story remained a tantalizing secret: the author’s identity.
* Looking back on three decades of crisis in the humanities.
* One In Nine U.S. Prisoners Are Serving Life Sentences, Report Finds.
* And a little something for 13-year-old-me: “Twenty years later, why Counting Crows’ August and Everything After is as meaningful as Nirvana’s In Utero.“ Take that, popular and critical consensus!
Sunday Night Ukulele
Sunday night ukulele fix: The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain plays “Smells Like Teen Spirit” and the theme from Shaft. Via MeFi.
Nevermind
This year’s freshmen are the last group of students I’m likely to have that are older than 1991’s Nevermind. I grow old, I grow old, I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled.
Strange Maps is just about exactly what it sounds like, but it’s also the most fun specialty blog I’ve visited in a good while. Where else are you going to find the the Inglehart-Welzel Cultural Map of the World, which proves Sweden’s status as secular paradise in graph form, plus a mapping of Middle-Earth onto Regular-Europe, a mapping of how evolution is taught in the U.S., the world as seen from 9th Avenue, Tatooine, and the most generic country ever? At right: Inside the Hollow Earth.
Via Cynical-C, which this morning also brings us “Smells Like Teen Spirit” as performed by choir.