December 2010
REMINDER THAT I AM NOT HERE ANYMORE.
You can find me here (alexbaca.tumblr.com) instead. I am trying to get everything organized and am slowly following back all the people that I’ve followed on this account for over two years now, so, uh, join me over there.
Account change for real this time.
alexbaca.tumblr.com — you should follow that (or re-follow it; I had to create a new account). Thanks! See y’all later.
Changing accounts, blah blah.
I don’t really understand how to work with several accounts linked to one email address, but I’m going to attempt to do so anyway. If all goes well, Bethlehems Dot Tumblr Dot Com will be locked for safekeeping and no longer updated.
Barring my massively screwing things up, you can follow me instead at Alexbaca Dot Tumblr Dot Com.
After reading the Tumblr help I realized I can do...
craftyhippo:
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How Luxury Goods Affect the Brain and Drive More... →
Patrick and Hagtvedt term this “aesthetic incongruity resolution.” We call it not being shamed by your classy, design-conscious friends.
It turns out consumers are subsceptible to, well, pretty things. Over three years, the 125 participants’ spending habits for shoes, necklaces and furniture were tracked. Participants were given high-end products from either “designer” labels or from...
ypaul:
bethlehems replied to your post:Just washed down 2 Dayquils with a Monster energy drink
WHAT ABOUT US, YITZY? WHAT ABOUT THE REST OF US?
Here we go!
Alex can have my flask filled to the brim with the finest Makers Mark (she can also have her Italo Calvino books back)
Kt can have my comics
Ev and Dee can have my snackgrass, Felix, and Aquarius (which I’m pretty sure is still in Dee’s...
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Fear, hope, and a failed Dunbar High. →
A few of my favorite things: DC politics and history, public schools, and design. Also very sad, though.
Marion Barry's Jaguar Stolen While Sitting in... →
kamikazep:
The man is clearly not our greatest thinker.
Heh.
Watchboyghost:
The Land of Pleasant Living
I have been playing with the idea of a photographic essay of my time in Baltimore, and tonight I spent about three hours putting together this rough draft. I’m putting it up here today, because I had promised to answer your questions “in person,” so to speak, and haven’t had the opportunity to until now. This should, I hope, work instead.
The goal was to...
“Samuel Hengel put a .22-caliber Ruger, a Hi-Point 9mm luger, two knives and 205...”
– A. Must. Read.
Two Hours in Marinette: Lessons From a School Shooting | The Awl
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Dunbar High worse off since contractor's hiring →
rubenfeld:
I used to live one block from this school. Sad to see it falling apart.
Everything about Dunbar is so fucked up right now that I can’t keep up with it. If the renovations are successful, I think they’re going to re-cut O Street through the campus, which is exciting for urban planning, but on the social level, there’s a lot of issues to even deal with before we get...
“Never in twenty-three years of reporting on and supporting victims of sexual...”
– Naomi Wolf on rape, justice and Julian Assange - Boing Boing
I’ll just leave this here.
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I haven’t read the rest of this with great thought (just scanned the whole post after clicking through), but I think this is really interesting and definitely something to think about....
Warhol Foundation Threatens to Cut Smithsonian... →
yeajapan:
nedhepburn:
Because unlike John Boehner, the Warhol Foundation actually pays for the art.
i am not a fan of jboner or censorship, but the Smithsonian/NPG is in such a bad place on this. either way, they now lose funding. and the people that actually deal with the art don’t even have much of a say.
I have been sort of forced in keeping current with all of this stuff because of the...
I was trying to explain to my mother why I wasn't...
aseablackwithink:
gronlandicedit:
and I realized it was basically futile to try and explain to her why music has been hard the past few weeks.
Then I realized how futile it is to ever explain to her why music is hard. No one should ever try to explain why music is hard to anyone who isn’t a musician. Real talk: they will never understand the insanity that drove you to pursue this career. And...
ALEX:
samestuff:
bethlehems:
samestuff:
My idea of poor urban planning mostly consists of being angry that there isn’t a Popeye’s next to my office. Can you fix this?
Hang on, let me work some urban planning magic and talk to the Popeye’s lobby.
Can we get this done in the next 15 minutes? I want some fried chicken for lunch today.
No, sorry, for now you’re going to have to walk your...
ALEX:
samestuff:
My idea of poor urban planning mostly consists of being angry that there isn’t a Popeye’s next to my office. Can you fix this?
Hang on, let me work some urban planning magic and talk to the Popeye’s lobby.
How to be a 20-Something →
lattesoflove:
pcaruselle:
This article starts out hilarious and finishes very sweetly. Truthful from beginning to end. Because we all know I am a proud 20something.
Oh and if you havent read the NYT article: What is it about 20somethings?
So this is what I have to look forward to over the next 10 years…
Jesus fucking groan groan groan tropes are dumb the end.
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So I have to rework one section of my thesis before I turn in the final (which I’m also using as my grad school app writing sample), but I’m double-dipping and submitting the reworked section, which I guess is actually a chapter, as the final paper for the graduate class I took this semester. And, basically, where I tried to get away with just dumping in transcriptions of interviews...