Somewhat Smarmy

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[durbikins]

after eating 37 olives straight out of jar while standing in front of refrigerator at 1:34am

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2:12am… going back for more olive

[somewhatsmarmy]

2:37 am...when your fingers are slippery and you drop the olive jar and wake mom up

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This blog is nine years old today

I started this from my freshman year dorm room because I have a terrible addiction to signing up for hot new tech services, and Tumblr was getting some press, seemed more fun than most of the other blogging services that were around at the time, and wasn’t Facebook. I remember I especially liked how I could send a text message to a custom email to post, which was invaluable in the days when not everyone had a smartphone. Sometimes I do the cringe-y thing and go back and look at some of my earlier posts, which is a good record of how...good? bad? different?...I used to be. Maybe in ten years, if Tumblr still exists, I’ll look back on my sporadic posts from the last couple years and feel my ears burn in the same way.

It’s a shame I don’t post here more often; maybe by year ten it’ll be more active. Or maybe I’ll just forget about it again.

[clickholeofficial]

The Teletubbies Slowed Down 500% Is Horrifying, But No More So Than Daily Life

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[somewhatsmarmy]

I’m so depressed.

[acheesepizza]

[weloveshortvideos]

[nevver]

Pantone by Lucy

[somewhatsmarmy]

So there’s only one conclusion left: SoundCloud doesn’t intend to pay Airplane Mode a single penny for our music regardless of how many people listen to us unless we: 1. Get invited into your exclusive club which you’ve already stated has a super-long waiting list. 2. Wait for you to “roll out monetization to everyone.” 3. Work through an aggregator (who may still reject us) and lose the benefits of posting directly to SoundCloud. This is dramatically worse than missing 90 days of revenue for a free trial because you're offering listeners a way to pay to hear our songs that actively and intentionally competes with services that do pay us. You can slice it, package it, or spin it however you like, but the bare fact is that you’re making money off of songs you aren’t paying for. Worse, you’re doing it while perpetuating an air of exclusivity around the concept of making money. All while you’re pretending to be a friend to the little guy. There’s nothing artist-friendly about this approach.

I’ve made all my music private on Soundcloud. This is a terrible business model, and one that scams and defrauds musicians. Shame on them.

[heterophobian]

me: i’m really stressed

someone: just relax!!!!!

me:

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[books]

“I read David Denby’s stuffy New Yorker lament Do Teens Read Seriously Anymore? on my phone yesterday, glued to a screen just like the typical American teenagers he throws shade at in his opening paragraph. “Looking at them, you can envy their happiness,” Denby writes. “You can also find yourself wishing them immersed in a different kind of happiness – in a superb book or a series of books, in the reading obsession itself! You should probably keep on wishing.” What follows is a wordy, predictable groaner: the kids these days, Denby writes, are unable to connect to each other outside digital technologies and uninterested in reading the classics. Oh, teens do read, he acknowledges, with a half-hearted nod to science fiction and fantasy favorites, graphic novels, and young adult literature. But they don’t read in a serious way – they ignore Shakespeare, Twain and Salinger. Denby lists a half-dozen other omissions too, only two of them women, it might be observed, and none of them people of color.”

(via Teen readers aren’t in crisis, they’re just making their own rules | Books | The Guardian)

All hail @elizabethminkel!

[clickholeofficial]

Godspeed! 

[paperbacksandvinyls]

the descriptions I see of Harry Styles on this website are possibly some of the most entertaining things I’ve ever seen. “some daymare Saint Laurent wearing gorgon”? “a gentle succulent plant”? “high class Renaissance Venetian courtesan”? these were ones I saw TODAY alone.

[zaptains]

[myriverrunstothee]

what is happening to the One Direction fandom.

[somewhatsmarmy]

you: feelsgoodman.jpg

me: [sends you rare pics of john goodman]

[melvillehouse]

What your favorite book looks like without the words » MobyLives

With his project Between the Words, Nicholas Rougeux created beautiful posters displaying only the punctuation from well-known books. Per the project's website: Between the Words is an exploration of visual rhythm of punctuation in well-known literary works. All letters, numbers, spaces, and…

Designer and Nicholas Rougeux removed the words of your favorite literary works “to explore the rhythm of punctuation.” 

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[azizisbored]

My friend Harris Wittels passed away this year. He was a brilliant writer who worked with us on Master of None and Parks and Rec. I miss him dearly. I wrote a piece in the NYTimes magazine about him. Read it here: https://t.co/ii43Dh7iIf

[somewhatsmarmy]

This was one of the most beautiful things I read this year. It's worth a brief moment of your time to read it.

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