November 2011
13 posts
ShortFormBlog: How much did people spend over Black Friday weekend? →
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- $52.4 billion spent on Black Friday weekend (whoa)
- $45B the amount spent during Black Friday weekend last year; that’s a 16 percent jump, for those playing at home
- 226M number of shoppers over Black Friday weekend; that’s also a huge leap from 2010, and a record number
- $398 the…
The Frenemy.: What Happens When I Visit Home →
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It’s Thanksgiving break. Earlier this week, I left the bodega cats and the garbage smells and the 24 hour diners to head home to the suburbs. You know, to eat turkey and stuff with my family. I’m American! If you’re in college or in an apartment and you don’t live at home, there are certain…
For those who love to POP: Not us... (we're much better) →
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I don’t believe we have a Christmas show with this unfortunate title.
We DO however, have an AMAZING Christmas show entitled, wait for it, An Olly Good Christmurs !! Puntastic!
http://www.4music.com/shows/390/An-Olly-Good-Christmurs
Jedward’s Christmas show on…
Fresh Music Top 20 →
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The freshest tracks in the world this week
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Steve Inskeep from
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Childish Gambino Is Trying To Be A Grown-Up
“Everybody is kind of a kid. I personally don’t believe people really grow. They just learn stuff when they were a kid, and hold on to it, and that affects every relationship they have. So the album is about learning the good stuff and taking away the good stuff, and continuing to grow — as opposed to staying 12 years old forever with relationships, which sometimes I feel like I still am.” — Donald Glover
Beyoncé Songs Re-Imagined as Undergraduate Theses in Women’s and Gender Studies | The Hairpin →
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npr:
Baby Boy: The Sociocultural Effects of Prolonged Male Adolescence
Check on It: The Gendered Dynamics of Male Spectatorship in Urban Public Spaces
If we all just keep cool...
and remember that the economy is a construct, it’s as real as we make it… and these lives we’re all living are based on fantastical notions that capitalism equals freedom, they aren’t real. And the world economy crashing, if that happens, and we’re all fucked, then we’re all fucked together. And we’ll have to change the way we live. But maybe it’s a wakeup call to let us know that we can’t go on the way we’ve been living. We can’t carry on these terribly selfish, resource-hogging lives in which we just voraciously consume with no regard to how it affects the other 6.9 billion people we have to coexist with.
Do you even understand how money works? Cause I sure as hell don’t.
