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• 2013-02-21

  The Fractured Genius of Lil Wayne

  I wrote a piece on my cousin’s blog This City of Islands about the ways in which Lil Wayne’s 2007-2009 run of incredible mixtapes changed the face of hip-hop. Check it out.

• 2013-02-18

  pbowden:

  Awesome guitar cover of Tyler, The Creator’s “BIMMER”

  Source: oddfuture

• 2012-05-30

  

  aubject:

  I’ve started leaving notes to my future self while high. Mostly so I can remember what I did, but also so I know how proud or embarrassed I should be of myself.

  Today I am proud.

  Source: aubject

• 2012-04-15

  Paintballing with Hezbollah

  nullarysources:

  Mitchell Prothero, writing in Vice Magazine:

  We figured they’d cheat; they were Hezbollah, after all. But none of us—a team of four Western journalists—thought we’d be dodging military-grade flash bangs when we initiated this “friendly” paintball match.

  This is one of the most fascinating pieces about the Middle East I’ve read, well, possibly ever — certainly this year. Read every word.

  This right here is some Hideo Kojima/John le Carre shit. Terrifying, hilarious, inspiring, frightening journalism.

  Source: nullarysources

• 2012-04-11

  pbowden:

  The long awaited fourth first episode of Colin, Patrick, and my podcast, Postmodem, titled “El Paso Metaphysics” is now out. (Alternatively titled, 3 Beardy Nerds Bullshitting Near Microphones)

  We’re sorry.

  Around two years ago I cornered Colin and Phillip, plied them with drink, and got them to agree to do a podcast with me. After much planning, deliberation, and beer, we finally got around to recording and publishing an episode. I’m pretty proud of the result – my co-hosts are terrifyingly smart and sidesplittingly funny. 

  Source: SoundCloud / Postmodem Podcast

• 2012-04-09

  gangbanglerfish:

  nothing like realizing you are the huge ass, it is you 

  (via )

  Source: kangaya

• 2012-03-10

  

  nprmusic:

  He recorded as The Notorious B.I.G. People knew him as Biggie Smalls, or Biggie. Fifteen years ago today, he was murdered when he was only 24 years old. Yet he’s one of the most revered, emulated and biggest-selling rappers in the game.

  Biggie’s voice doesn’t sound like anybody else’s. It’s plummy, wheezy, humid. It sounds like it comes from deeper in his chest than other people’s voices.

  Source: nprmusic

• 2012-02-29

  Computer science is not really about computers — and it’s not about computers in the same sense that physics is not really about particle accelerators, and biology is not about microscopes and Petri dishes, and geometry isn’t really about using surveying instruments. Now the reason that we think computer science is about computers is pretty much the same reason that the Egyptians thought geometry was about surveying instruments: when some field is just getting started and you don’t really understand it very well, it’s very easy to confuse the essence of what you’re doing with the tools that you use.

  — Hal Abelson’s 1986 lecture on SICP

• 2012-02-24

  Nirvana, on the first show of the In Utero tour, crammed this old Nevermind favorite into the end of a televised set.

  At 1:53, you can see that Kurt is having problems with his guitar. By 2:11, he’s flung it down, almost petulantly. He looks terribly small and frail behind the microphone.

  But at 2:16, I always start to get goosebumps, because I know something magical is about to happen. And then it does.

• 2012-01-02

  

  This one’s for the inimitable picardy3rd.

  Thanks for the awesome hat, J. <3 <3