The Muddle

[wnyc]

People are now using the iPhone’s predictive text feature to write poetry. Consider it just another accidental wonder of the digital age: http://bit.ly/1EjVnkH (via sideshow)

[thatkindofwoman]

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Love.

[sandandglass]

The Nightly Show covers the Baltimore Protests, April 28, 2015

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It’s gonna be May. 

[rachelfershleiser]

Rachel Fershleiser: Are you a feminist? Jon Krakauer: Of course. I mean, how can you not be a feminist if you have a brain in your head? If you’re not a feminist, then you’re a problem.

Jon Krakauer: ‘If You’re Not a Feminist, Then You’re a Problem.’ — Medium (via rachelfershleiser)

[sandandglass]

[thegreg]

Pretty much the last gif, forever and ever, amen.

[peterwknox]

“Fascinating”

[meat13-deactivated20181209]

From Arie:

“At first I was all, “Oh my god, what if I oversold this photo?” Then I opened my fucking eyes and realized, “No. No I did not.

I’d like to tell y'all that I am the cute little blonde in pigtails, but I’m not. That’s my cousin Julia and she’s still frigging adorable. Nor am I the crying infant. That’s my baby sister Rikki and it would also be an improvement. No, I’m not the husky fellow in the back row or the little fellow slinging a basket of eggs over his shoulder. Nope, I’m none of those. I am, however, the one the too-tight plaid dress with hightop sneakers who looks like she ate all her Easter chocolate in one sitting. (Probably because that’s exactly what happened.) I’d like to say that things improved – and they did, eventually – but boy, oh boy, it was long hard road. I went from this stylish mullet into a tightly rolled spiral perm and giant glasses, a look which was dubbed BY MY OWN MOTHER as “The Little Orphan Annie.” When I got boobs it helped balance me out a little, but that was several years later. My junior high school experience was punctuated by entering the marching band. High school was tolerable after I embraced my role as the FFF (funny fat friend.) But, I really peaked in college where I wore a lot of black clothing and way too much eyeliner and the poetic artsy fartsy liberal arts crowd thought I was the tits. I was queen of the journalism nerds and sassy gay men, and, yes, I was a benevolent ruler.”

[corrinag-blog]

This is perfect.

[rachelfershleiser]

Housing Works Bookstore Café, part of the Housing Works charity in New York City, which provides housing and other services to people living with HIV/Aids, perfectly exemplifies the answer. While walking into a generic big-box bookstore feels a lot like shopping at a slightly more expensive, slightly less convenient version of Amazon, walking into Housing Works feels worlds apart. The shelves are lined with an idiosyncratic array of donated and used books, including a shelf of donated galley copies. The beautiful, sunny space centers on a cozy café space, the ideal place to get lost in a stack of potential purchases and a coffee for an afternoon. The staff are passionate volunteers and nonprofit employees ready to welcome you and recommend the best book for you. You can come back – not just for readings or celebrity book signings, but for speed dating with book geeks, arty trivia, or even your wedding, if you want. Housing Works, like so many beloved indie bookstores, offers something that Amazon can’t do better. They’re turning book-shopping into an opportunity to reconnect as communities, and it turns out that’s something readers still want.

Housing Works Bookstore Café Shows How Indie Bookstores Can Win In The Age Of Amazon (via rachelfershleiser)

YES!

[maletechnician1and2]

Get Hannah Hart to see this please

There’s a  french TV show here in Canada that stole Hannah Hart’s idea of My Drunk Kitchen. The concept is that the host and a celebrety cook while they are drunk. They are planning to go to Cannes festival in order to sell the concept. If we could get Hannah to see this and to do something about it, it would be wonderful! The TV show is called Les Recettes Pompettes (basically drunk recipes) and here’s the link to one episode if you want a proof. They never credited her or anything and I think it’s a shame.

[rachelfershleiser]

kvelling so hard rn

[corrinag-blog]

Amanda! 

[slaughterhouse90210]

“After all, what was the whole wide world but a place for people to yearn for their heart’s impossible desires, for those desires to become entrenched in defiance of logic, plausibility, and even the passage of time, as eternal as polished marble.”

― Richard Russo, Empire Falls

[motherjones]

Nobody could tell us how much gun violence costs America, so we decided to find out.

[newyorker]

Customer #0045, or Hillary Clinton’s Burrito Bowl

SERVER: Welcome to Chipotle. How can I help you?

CLINTON: Thank you, my fellow American. Thank you. Thank you. But ask not, “How can you help me?” Ask, “How can I help you?”

SERVER: That’s what I said. What would you like today, ma’am?

CLINTON: I’d like a tax break for the middle class. I’d like better schools for our children. I’d like more videos featuring a diversity of Americans that show how relatable the powerful person who approved said videos is—even to white, male factory workers from the Bible Belt.

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[housingworksbookstore]

Game of Totes Monday, April 20 at 7pm / FREE

electricliterature and vol1brooklyn have united to put to rest the question that book fans have been wondering for ages: who makes the greatest tote bag of them all? We will have our answer on April 20th when Cosmopolitan’s book-editor-at-large Camille Perri, Saeed Jones (poet, Prelude to Bruise, BuzzFeed Literary Editor), Bev Rivero (Publicist at The New Press), and Dan Wilbur (Writer and comedian) judge the final contestants in the GAME OF TOTES. Along with the actual competition hosted by Jason Diamond and Lincoln Michel, Jen Doll and Kyle Chayka will be reading essays about tote bags, and there will be free wine and PBR while supplies last, all making this what will undoubtedly be the greatest night in the history of canvas.

[newyorker]

The Borowitz Report: Hillary Clinton Officially Begins Nineteen Months of Looking Concerned

Sitting with patrons at Jones Street Java House, in Le Claire, the former Secretary of State listened intently, sipped from a cup of coffee, and nodded her head at appropriate junctures, flawlessly reënacting a brief scene from her first campaign video.

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Photograph by Michael B. Thomas/AFP/Getty

[sandandglass]

TDS, April 8, 2015

[thehighdesert]

Really though…

[peterwknox]

So fucked. What is up New York? Even PA is on this shit.

[newyorker]

Honest LinkedIn Recommendations

I’ve had the great fortune of having my bathroom schedule synced with Maria for over two years. Every time we see each other in there, we smile and shake our heads, as if to say, “Here we are again! Peeing at the same time!” I think she’s also responsible for the internal newsletter?

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Carrie excels at hanging out by the coffee machine and challenging the company dress code, but engaging in small talk at company parties and other awkward get-togethers is where she truly shines. From “Mad Men” to Nicki Minaj, Carrie is able to juggle pop-culture references on a consistent basis.

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Photograph by Brand New Images/Getty​