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Being lonely is extremely bad for your health. If you’re lonely, you’re more likely to be put in a geriatric home at an earlier age than a similar person who isn’t lonely. You’re less likely to exercise. You’re more likely to be obese. You’re less likely to survive a serious operation and more likely to have hormonal imbalances. You are at greater risk of inflammation. Your memory may be worse. You are more likely to be depressed, to sleep badly, and to suffer dementia and general cognitive decline. Loneliness may not have killed Yvette Vickers, but it has been linked to a greater probability of having the kind of heart condition that did kill her.
And yet, despite its deleterious effect on health, loneliness is one of the first things ordinary Americans spend their money achieving. With money, you flee the cramped city to a house in the suburbs or, if you can afford it, a McMansion in the exurbs, inevitably spending more time in your car.
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— Stephen Marche http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2012/05/is-facebook-making-us-lonely/8930/
1:22 am • 16 May 2012
“Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin, as self-neglecting.”
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William Shakespeare - Henry V.
What would be the Shakespearean moral judgement, I wonder, at doing both at once? (see Tumblr)
7:22 pm • 12 May 2012
Superlinguo: Google Beatbox
superlinguo:
While some internet translators are not quite up to scratch, we can definitely endorse the translation that Google Translate gives when you enter this with the “from” language set to German, and hit the audio button:
pv zk bschk pv zk pv bschk zk pv zk bsc…hk pv zk pv bschk zk bschk pv bschk…
Try it on Japanese and it sounds like backwards Black Lodge Laura Palmer http://youtu.be/o_-WYMBvU30
9:19 pm • 8 May 2012 • 35 notes
![huffpostcomedy:
In its multi-decade, 500+-episode run, The Simpsons has sported all sorts of popular culture references, from the Immortal Bard (a Hamlet parody still shown in high schools all across America by English teachers who want to get hip with the young people) to Spider-Pig (does whatever a spider-pig does).
Last night, The Simpsons aired a surprising homage to David Foster Wallace, titled “A Totally Fun Thing That Bart Will Never Do Again,” which borrows its title — and plot — from DFW’s A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again. The episode, in which Bart assumes the role of Wallace on his disdain-inducing luxury cruise, also includes musical snippets from Hot Chip (“Boy From School”) and Animal Collective (“Winter’s Love”).
With a television run as long as the one Matt Groening’s iconic series has had, there have been a whole lot of other surprising, notable and overall funny salutes to important literary tomes, from Hemingway to Stephen King to the Bible. Here’s a look back at just a few of the other key Simpsons moments that went by the book.
A Supposedly Brief Chronology of “The Simpsons” Literary References
[via bbook]](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3brbzKprw1qzspj4o1_500.jpg)
huffpostcomedy:
In its multi-decade, 500+-episode run, The Simpsons has sported all sorts of popular culture references, from the Immortal Bard (a Hamlet parody still shown in high schools all across America by English teachers who want to get hip with the young people) to Spider-Pig (does whatever a spider-pig does).
Last night, The Simpsons aired a surprising homage to David Foster Wallace, titled “A Totally Fun Thing That Bart Will Never Do Again,” which borrows its title — and plot — from DFW’s A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again. The episode, in which Bart assumes the role of Wallace on his disdain-inducing luxury cruise, also includes musical snippets from Hot Chip (“Boy From School”) and Animal Collective (“Winter’s Love”).
With a television run as long as the one Matt Groening’s iconic series has had, there have been a whole lot of other surprising, notable and overall funny salutes to important literary tomes, from Hemingway to Stephen King to the Bible. Here’s a look back at just a few of the other key Simpsons moments that went by the book.
A Supposedly Brief Chronology of “The Simpsons” Literary References
[via bbook]
1:24 am • 1 May 2012 • 281 notes
![theatlantic:
The Tea Party Is Not Happy With Chicago’s Sarah Palin Sculpture
You’d think that folks who love both red meat and Sarah Palin would rally behind a sculpture devoted to both. But for some reason, the Tea Party is not happy with this BBQ smoker in the shape of the conservative firebrand’s freedom-filled noggin.
News organizations have been rooting and snuffling around the immense Palin head, titled “We’re Having a Tea Parody” (not “Pear-ody,” as reported elsewhere), ever since mixed-media artist J. Taylor Wallace debuted it in 2011 at a Memphis public-art show. The anthropomorphic cooker hit the news again last week, when Wallace fashioned a meal with it to celebrate the opening of a new sculpture garden in Chicago.
Read more at The Atlantic Wire. [Image: J. Taylor Wallace]](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3b9xqiHRx1qcokc4o1_500.jpg)
theatlantic:
The Tea Party Is Not Happy With Chicago’s Sarah Palin Sculpture
You’d think that folks who love both red meat and Sarah Palin would rally behind a sculpture devoted to both. But for some reason, the Tea Party is not happy with this BBQ smoker in the shape of the conservative firebrand’s freedom-filled noggin.
News organizations have been rooting and snuffling around the immense Palin head, titled “We’re Having a Tea Parody” (not “Pear-ody,” as reported elsewhere), ever since mixed-media artist J. Taylor Wallace debuted it in 2011 at a Memphis public-art show. The anthropomorphic cooker hit the news again last week, when Wallace fashioned a meal with it to celebrate the opening of a new sculpture garden in Chicago.
Read more at The Atlantic Wire. [Image: J. Taylor Wallace]
6:44 pm • 30 April 2012 • 120 notes
мусорный монстр - Nomerz
Trash Monster
3:08 am • 30 April 2012 • 1 note
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I’m much more comfortable in front of an audience – and a big audience is even better – than faced with one stranger. This always seems like a bit of a failing on my part, as a human. I think that’s also why I put myself situations where I’m forced to engage in other ways.
The life you live in front of an audience is like an altered state – it’s not totally real. I’m always, even in the course of one day, trying to find ways to balance both sides.
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— Miranda July
11:22 pm • 19 April 2012
When Bad Is Good
youmightfindyourself:
“There is nothing worse than good taste,” thundered the English art critic Jonathan Jones in the Guardian in 2010. “Nothing more stultifying than an array of consumer choices paraded as a philosophy of life.”
2:48 pm • 18 April 2012 • 73 notes
During the day, Stephin Merritt sprawls out in the window sills of gay bars for hours on end, sipping wine, writing maudlin love stories, puzzling over bathetic lines about midwestern housewives with battle axes.
1:25 am • 26 March 2012
