September 2011
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The Math Behind Sacking Disposable Bags
For the 14 California municipalities with bag bans in place, a D.C.-style bag tax could still go through for paper bags, but most are simply opting to try to curb their use altogether. In what may be the most ambitious move in this direction, Los Angeles City Council Member Paul Koretz recently introduced a motion to ban all plastic and paper bags in the city. It’s a move he says could make...
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The Tree of Life (Terrence Malick, 2011)
One might expect a film containing low-budget CG dinosaurs to have its low point at said dinosaurs. Oh, if only. Instead, it appears that what must have been the easiest scenes to shoot - Sean Penn looking sad and confused in a modern office tower, and more confused in a rocky desert landscape - are the film’s lowest point, the most unnecessary segments of what is otherwise a beautiful look...
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NJ Gov. Cristie Blocks Tax Credit for "Jersey...
Mr. Christie said he was “duty-bound” to see that taxpayers were “not footing a $420,000 bill for a project which does nothing more than perpetuate misconceptions about the state and its citizens.”
“In this difficult fiscal climate,” he wrote to Caren S. Franzini, the chief executive of the Economic Development Authority, “the taxpayers of New Jersey should not be forced to subsidize...
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"Every one of Amazon's millions of customers... →
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Mac McClelland’s not too optimistic about improving the hellish conditions at Amazon’s Allentown, Pa. shipping center.
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“God have mercy on your souls.”
– Troy Davis, in his final words, speaking to his executioners. (via officialssay)
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what does it mean
when my written articles - the movie reviews - are only being reblogged by porno spammers?
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Norwegian Wood (Tran Ahn-hung, 2010)
The film is primarily about Watanabe’s relationships with two women. One, Naoko, is a close friend from childhood who was with his best friend, Kizuki, until he killed himself; Naoko has never fully recovered from his suicide, and spends most of the film attempting to cope. The other woman, Midori, is another student at Watanabe’s school in Tokyo, and is much more sure of herself; she...
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“We are born because of our parents’ love. We encounter appropriate...”
– Yoshida Kiju, Ozu’s Anti-Cinema, pg 28-29
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25th Hour (Spike Lee, 2002)
What does 9/11 mean now? There are probably as many responses as there are people alive. Interpreting the meaning of the day, as an American, or as a New Yorker, is extremely difficult, and very few have been able to express themselves successfully in response to it (notable failure: the Bush administration).
Maybe it should come as no surprise, then, that one of the most expressive New Yorkers,...
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U.S. Commemorates 9/11 By Toasting Stable Afghan...
Read here
Former New York mayor Rudolph Giuliani, who retired quietly from the political scene in 2002, was also on hand, opting as always not to give a speech, saying that such a gesture would be “a selfish exploitation of the events of that tragic day.”
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stoopid
see title - that is the overall theme of this blog/tumblr/what do I call it?
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a continual state of inelegance: what i want is a... →
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Smith has a course called Portuguese for Spanish speakers that allowed them to skip all the confusing/forced parts in the beginning because they already had a context for it that made more sense than trying to explain it from scratch/from English as the base language, and I want that for Korean—I…
I have used this one - it’s pretty good, with descriptions of all the changes...
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August 2011
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