On Free To Be... Straight White Males
Am I the only one who had to Google "TED" to see what the fuck it was? Even after finding the Wikipedia entry, now at least I can tell what the letters stand for, if little else.
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On 'Gone With The Wind': Devil In A Black Bombazine Dress
You guys know all about The Birth of a Nation and how it was based on a turn-of-the-century romance called The Clansman, right? Well, the author of that book, a son of the South called Thomas Dixon, was still around when GWTW was published, and sent Margaret Mitchell a fan letter praising her accurate representation of Suthern Histry, and she responded with this fangirl thing about she totally grew up on his books.
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On Black People Incoming! Miami Beach on Max Lockdown!
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Ahem.
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On Bunch of Newspapers About to Needlessly Hit the Skids
One thing in their favor, though: the so-called Newhouse Pledge that no one gets summarily laid off for purely economic reasons. So rather than being fired (so far), they get a fairly generous buyouts. (When The Star-Ledger forced out more than half its newsroom staff at the end of '08, everyone got something like 18 months full salary and benefits.)
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On Bunch of Newspapers About to Needlessly Hit the Skids
What drives me nuts about this shit is that Advance isn't even a public company, so they don't have a share price or stockholders to worry about. You'd never guess Conde Nast is owned by the same people.
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On Bear Picks Snack Out Of Wrong Cupboard
at a cabin by Dunbar Lake, about 60 kilometres north of Sioux Lookout, Ont.
Eh, I can't read stories with made-up place names and units of distance. One or the other is O.K., but not both at the same time.
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On The Past Actually Is Past
"The Awl Network: Like the Internet, only easier to take."
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On The Past Actually Is Past
I love how Peter Enzinna actually manages to misquote the last sentence of Gatsby. Some may argue that this supports his point, but I think it just makes him look like he writes for The Daily News.
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On That David Grann Story's Got It All
See, who needs Kindle Singles when we've got The New Yorker?
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On The Day They Got Jesus
The whole Julian/Gregorian thing is making my head hurt.