Harmonizing with "Pearl-Handled Pistol" while walking in the rain: Good pastimes
My apartment is cold enough that my tea went cool pretty fast (thanks, no heat until November, apparently), but it's all good, in the end: I've done a whole lot of sleeping this weekend, I didn't talk my way out of a surprise invitation last night and wound up seeing Back to the Future II at MoMA (it holds up really well!) + eating great pho, I'm seeing The Martian in 3-D this afternoon with a friend of a friend I like but haven't spent much time with, and I get laundry back this evening, plus I finally figured out an angle on a story I want to write which has a perfect title but not much else.
Some links:
Journalists were defensively linking these two articles last week when an outcry arose that reporters were tweeting at Umpqua shooting survivors for information and comment: "Public Trust in Media Approaches Media's Trust in Public" is glib, while "Reporting Is Ugly" is a little more vulnerable. Some people in my newsroom decried the practice as lazy; on the other hand, the vast majority of reporters in the nation are not local to Roseburg, Oregon, so. It's true, you use the tools you've got, and social media is 100% a reporting tool now, no walking that back. This is a question I hesitate to answer myself, only because my ideal kind of reporting is not breaking news. But Gawker, little as I like them, isn't wrong: If the entire media had been "respectful," readers would yell and scream about how we weren't doing our jobs. And fucking Reddit would have gone and done it (wrong) anyway. Huh, this got long.
Unique Vintage: Stockings and tights, oh damn oh damn oh damn. The website has a number of other offerings, but these are the ones that I find hardest to find elsewhere. (See also: We Love Colors, a site I have previously had excellent luck with but had forgotten about for a long time!)
Broadly is Vice actually serving women, in theory; I tend to find Vice crass for the sake of crassness most times, with occasional bits of real brilliance. (It's supposedly targeted at millennials, but the sensibility is very cynical and Gen X - so say some media researchers.) "Does the Tech Industry Even Deserve Women?" is pretty good, though, with an interesting thesis.
brewsternorth pointed me to Project Subway NYC, which is neat stuff! Photography + some design blogging + station layouts.
I was the world's most intense 10-year-old Civil War nerd, so "Ken Burns Revisits 'The Civil War' 25 Years Later" is just lovely for me.
tinderinbrooklyn, if you want to howl. Because I will always happily mock this city. It always needs it.
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Some links:
brewsternorth pointed me to Project Subway NYC, which is neat stuff! Photography + some design blogging + station layouts.
tinderinbrooklyn, if you want to howl. Because I will always happily mock this city. It always needs it.
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