March 2012
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: Kaiser Wilhelm II, Hitler, and the Jews →
historicity-was-already-taken: Lately I’ve been studying nineteenth century German Jewry, and my studies made me wonder what exactly Kaiser Wilhelm II thought of Hitler. So I poked around a bit, and found that the Kaiser had written the following about the Jews in regards to the loss of… Dontcha love how people still act like Hitler’s bigotry came out of a vacuum? “Why,...
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“AVC: Yeah, sorry for dragging this one up. But this was a movie where you...”
– Sometimes I have existential crises about death. Then I’m reminded that everything will be A-OK. (from AV Club’s interview with Curtis Armstrong, and discovered by me via Videogum)
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“All I know is that I am not talking of reunion in Mr. Bastin’s kind of...”
– H. Rider Haggard, When the World Shook (currently serialized online) I always thought Haggard just wrote about macho Allan Quartermain shooting shit, I didn’t realize he had such a way with words.
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“But if I began to drift into an analysis of my father’s abilities, I should...”
– H. Rider Haggard, When the World Shook, as serilalized by HiLoBrow. Here’s a bit I wrote about the book, the quote’s context, and the fascinating project through which I’m reading it.
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“The worst was when we had to reshoot a cross-talk segment because a crew member...”
–  “The Original Frenemies: An Oral History of Siskel & Ebert.” Related: one of the best-ever Larry Sanders Show moments. Siskel could act! (via marathonpacks) YO, SISKEL WAS CRAZY. (via madeupmemories) I don’t know that I grew up on any show quite the way I grew up on Siskel &...
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“EL: One time this girl from the LA Times came up and said, “Wow, you’re better...”
–  OPEN YOUR BOOKS TO PAGE FREAK: EGYPTIAN LOVER :: Stop Smiling Magazine how fucking great is egyptian lover unrelatedly we’re throwing a party tonight and i think i’m gonna force everybody to listen to “on the nile” and watch sexy couples aerobics tapes for a while (via dayan) Read the...
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Shit No One Taught Me: Historical Goldsboro,... →
I wrote a bit about a fascinating piece of African American history that I learned about due to the tragic, and fucking unconscionable, killing of Trayvon Martin. Also: entrenched racism, how short a time a hundred years really is, and city streets in 19th century America that were named after black folks.
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