On The Shame of the Professor's Summer Vacation
If you really want to be a dick, you could point out that this English professor has confused discrete and discreet...
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On Who Are You Awl?
An addendum: I started as a regular reader of Gawker back in the Spiers era in 2003. I kept reading it through the various editorial roster changes, added AMC's Wonkette and Lisanti's Defamer, and got commenter privileges fairly early. I basically never commented, though -- shy in real life, shy on the Web. I commented some on Slashdot, but that was for an audience of my fellow geeks. I had acquired most of an English major earlier in life, but that only allowed me to see the flatness of my writing style. I'm content to read the sharp wit of others.
When I found that Balk and Choire, probably the two best voices among the many great writers Denton recruited, were setting up their own shack, I was happy but pessimistic -- like a great new neighborhood restaurant, I tried to enjoy it as much as possible, as the odds of survival were not good.
I'm happy that the Awl seems to be thriving and growing -- happy not just for Choire, Balk, and Cho, but for what it says about the Internet and the ability of the best voices to find an audience.
I'm no longer a grad student, so I can't keep up with all my RSS feeds anymore, but I could sure go for some lemon squares.
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On The Crash Of '10: An Oral History
Have you perchance seen Coraline? Climactic cat-hurling. Also, the cat is voiced by Keith David, which is rather how I imagine a Choire-cat would talk.
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On The Only Three Female Musicians, According to Many Male Music Critics
+1
http://www.yessaid.com/pic/94-05Qbig.jpg
1994 is the new 1967
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On Real America: The Linemen
I remember reading somewhere that, for all his crimes against commentary, one of the greatest accomplishments of John Madden was the attention he brought to the importance of the offensive line, and the need for them to be some of the smartest guys on the field. Or maybe that was when he was still a coach? Ah, senility. In any case, nice post.
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On Fair Notice: Some Visual Changes Coming!
Apparently at the same time of the visual reworking, The Awl's RSS feed has gone a little weird. The title of each post (along with the time of posting) now also appears in the body of each item large and underlined
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On The Peter Gabriel Songs Other People Should Sing
Car, Scratch, and Melt are all pretty awesome. His quality/filler ratio was one of the highest.
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On Must-Reads: "A Court of No Appeal" Now Online
That is one badass takedown
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On The 2009 GDP? It's the Worst Since 1946--And 7.6 Million Jobs Disappeared in Two Years
I think a lot of this is actually just the stimulus money finally starting to work its way into the economy. The stupidity behind the GOP refrain of "the stimulus didn't work" was that the vast majority of the money had barely started to be disbursed.
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On The Shame of the Professor's Summer Vacation
D'oh, Hattie already pointed this out below. Slinking back into the shadows...