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1 week ago

fightthisgeneration:

We don’t say hang out, we say crew up.

Produced by Cadence Weapon
Artwork by Jasper Baydala (http://eprodux.com) - http://i.imgur.com/InMmO.gif

Who created “Crew Up”? What’s the genesis of the phrase?

Cadence Weapon: It’s gotta be Adam Wilcox, Thom Gillies from TOPS or John Batt. Or, Phil Karneef, Karn. It’s gotta be one of those guys. It’s hard to tell who the outbreak monkey is for that.

And it just means, you’re gonna hang out before you go somewhere?

Cadence Weapon: It’s very open-ended – we use it for “let’s meet up now.” Or, “I heard he crewed up with that girl.”

Can you crew up solo?

Cadence Weapon: No, it always involves other people. You can’t crew with yourself.

Okay, I was debating this with somebody.

Cadence Weapon: I mean, you can be like “I’m gonna crew up with Chandler.”

But you can’t be like, “I’m gonna crew up with this Nabokov book?”

Cadence Weapon: No. But you can be like, “I’m gonna crew up a box of donuts.”

Ok that’s good to know. I’m glad you’re not putting limitations on the term.

Cadence Weapon: Oh no, no. You gotta let it… grow.

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fightthisgeneration:

We don’t say hang out, we say crew up.

Produced by Cadence Weapon
Artwork by Jasper Baydala (http://eprodux.com) - http://i.imgur.com/InMmO.gif

Who created “Crew Up”? What’s the genesis of the phrase?

Cadence Weapon: It’s gotta be Adam Wilcox, Thom Gillies from TOPS or John Batt. Or, Phil Karneef, Karn. It’s gotta be one of those guys. It’s hard to tell who the outbreak monkey is for that.

And it just means, you’re gonna hang out before you go somewhere?

Cadence Weapon: It’s very open-ended – we use it for “let’s meet up now.” Or, “I heard he crewed up with that girl.”

Can you crew up solo?

Cadence Weapon: No, it always involves other people. You can’t crew with yourself.

Okay, I was debating this with somebody.

Cadence Weapon: I mean, you can be like “I’m gonna crew up with Chandler.”

But you can’t be like, “I’m gonna crew up with this Nabokov book?”

Cadence Weapon: No. But you can be like, “I’m gonna crew up a box of donuts.”

Ok that’s good to know. I’m glad you’re not putting limitations on the term.

Cadence Weapon: Oh no, no. You gotta let it… grow.


2 weeks ago

laphamsquarterly:

Barbara Newhall Follett, the child prodigy who began her first book The House Without Windows at the age of 8, and the subject of Paul Collins’ essay “Vanishing Act.” 

“My dreams are going through their death flurries. I thought they were all safely buried, but sometimes they stir in their grave, making my heartstrings twinge. I mean no particular dream, you understand, but the whole radiant flock of them together — with their rainbow wings, iridescent, bright, soaring, glorious, sublime. They are dying before the steel javelins and arrows of a world of Time and Money.”

laphamsquarterly:

Barbara Newhall Follett, the child prodigy who began her first book The House Without Windows at the age of 8, and the subject of Paul Collins’ essay “Vanishing Act.” 

“My dreams are going through their death flurries. I thought they were all safely buried, but sometimes they stir in their grave, making my heartstrings twinge. I mean no particular dream, you understand, but the whole radiant flock of them together — with their rainbow wings, iridescent, bright, soaring, glorious, sublime. They are dying before the steel javelins and arrows of a world of Time and Money.”

"The ‘problem’ of the Canadian novel, for me, was that Canada — as I was painfully aware, sitting in the Ottawa Valley reading my stepfather’s copies of the Manchester Guardian Weekly, with its inserts from The Washington Post and Le Monde — was a nation marginal to the epicentres of global culture and global power, yet endowed by history, as if as a joke, with the literary language of the world’s two most powerful empires, the nineteenth-century United Kingdom and the twentieth-century United States. The language did not fit the experience."
—Stephen Henighan (via littlebrothermagazine)


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Unmuted: You Don't Have My Vote

innovateafrica:

You must have heard of the viral video created by Invisible Children (IC), a U.S. organization that has launched a one-year campaign (expires December 31, 2012) to eliminate Joseph Kony, the head of the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA), a rebel group in Northern Uganda that has been embroiled in…



3 months ago

trextrying:

T-Rex Trying to Ride a Motorcycle…  a Bicycle…  the UNICYCLE!!!

#TRexTrying

trextrying:

T-Rex Trying to Ride a Motorcycle…  a Bicycle…  the UNICYCLE!!!
#TRexTrying

Don’t Piss Off Dionysus

wtfarthistory:

Douris, Red-Figure Cup Showing the Death of Pentheus and a Maenad, c. 480 B.C., Late Archaic Period, terracotta.  Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, TexasDouris,Red-Figure Cup Showing the Death of Pentheus and a Maenad, c. 480 B.C., Late Archaic Period, terracotta.  Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas

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3 months ago

proustitute:

Albrecht Dürer, Christ Among the Doctors (detail), 1506

proustitute:

Albrecht Dürer, Christ Among the Doctors (detail), 1506

I Touch Myself: A footnote

mashatupitsyn:

It honestly feels ridiculous, gratuitous even, to post this, but after coming across this film still tonight—of Ralph Macchio from The Outsiders—I was once again reminded of how much I looked like him not even that long ago. I’ve written about this at length in my essay I Touch Myself. I wish I could prove the resemblance with a childhood photo, but I don’t have any in digital form. So this more recent picture of me will have to do.



emk-irl:

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4 months ago

paperbackgirl:

My breakdown of Murakami themes.

paperbackgirl:

My breakdown of Murakami themes.

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