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The Walk of Life Project: "Walk of Life" by Dire Straits is the perfect song to end any movie. Created by Peter Salomone

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The Scavenger 

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Amusing Ourselves to Death: Huxley vs Orwell

A clever comic over on the accuracy of George Orwell's predictions about future society over those of Aldous Huxley. It's informative and scary at the same time. "In short, Orwell feared that what we hate would ruin us. Huxley that what we love will ruin us."

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Cover Story: Moving Images - The New Yorker

For this week’s cover, Ware enlisted the help of Ira Glass, Nico Muhly, and John Kuramoto to create an animated story.

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Chipmunks and the Chipettes play The Supremes on a 16 speed turntable

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9:14

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Debbie Harry

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Henry David Thoreau, Hypocrite

Why, given its fabrications, inconsistencies, and moral myopia, do we continue to cherish “Walden”?

“Walden,” in consequence, is not a paean to living simply; it is a paean to living purely, with all the moral judgment that the word implies. In its first chapter, “Economy,” Thoreau lays out a program of abstinence so thoroughgoing as to make the Dalai Lama look like a Kardashian. (That chapter must be one of the highest barriers to entry in the Western canon: dry, sententious, condescending, more than eighty pages long.) Thoreau, who never wed, regarded “sensuality” as a dangerous contaminant, by which we “stain and pollute one another.” He did not smoke and avoided eating meat. He shunned alcohol, although with scarcely more horror than he shunned every beverage except water: “Think of dashing the hopes of a morning with a cup of warm coffee, or of an evening with a dish of tea! Ah, how low I fall when I am tempted by them!” Such temptations, along with the dangerous intoxicant that is music, had, he felt, caused the fall of Greece and Rome.

I cannot idolize anyone who opposes coffee (especially if the objection is that it erodes great civilizations; had the man not heard of the Enlightenment?), but Thoreau never met an appetite too innocuous to denounce.

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The Red Drum Getaway

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“We saw surfers around town. They had sun-bleached hair, drove old station wagons, wore plaid Pendleton shirts, white jeans, huaraches—Mexican sandals with soles made from old car tires—and they rioted, we heard, on weekend nights way down the peninsula at the Rendezvous Ballroom, where Dick Dale and the Del-Tones played seductive, subversive music.”

-William Finnegan on Newport, California surfers in the 1960s in Barbarian Days

Photo by Leo Hetzel

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Use this tool to randomly generate a menu for your new Brooklyn bar!

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Gerrit Willem Dijsselhof at Rijksmuseum

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The Creative Apocalypse That Wasn’t

In the digital economy, it was supposed to be impossible to make money by making art. Instead, creative careers are thriving — but in complicated and unexpected ways.