Miscellaneous Articles You Should Read (1 Viewer)

[pete]

The Space Doctor’s Big Idea - The New Yorker

 

[pete]

Inside the plot to kill JFK: The secret story of the CIA and what really happened in Dallas

 

[pete]

At 3:25pm, Brown walked inside and sat down at a table. He looked around. A chess club was meeting in the library conference room, and Brown watched the 16 children—some as young as seven—with rising rage. Furious at the legal charges against him, Brown saw a way to exact a twisted form of revenge against children. He opened his backpack and pulled out the knives.

Inside the conference room, 75-year-old instructor James Vernon looked up from a chess board and saw Brown running toward him. Brown held a knife in each hand; as he entered the conference room, he screamed out, "I'm going to kill some people!"

Though Vernon had spent his career in IT at the local Caterpillar plant, he had taken knife-fight training in the Army many decades before. He immediately stepped forward into Brown's path, trying to distract the young man—but also hoping to see which hand he might use to attack.

After Dropbox finds a child porn collector, a chess club stops his knife attack

 

[nooleen]

“I knew he was right-handed. He was whittling on his left arm” with the one in that hand, “making small cuts. He was trying to scare me, and he did.”

argh

 

[Lili Marlene]

look at the lads there

Lynched: the Irish folk stars who are 'more punk than punk'

but more importantly, the comments

"Nothing worse than someone singing in a dublin accent."

 

[тхеодоре кацзынски]

An Unbelievable Story of Rape

 

[pete]

An Unbelievable Story of Rape

holy shit

 

[nooleen]

 

[тхеодоре кацзынски]

holy shit

Excellently written no? One of the few 'long reads' in recent times that kept me engaged throughout.

 

[Lili Marlene]

681. Frank Wilson: "Do I Love You (Indeed I Do)"

such a great entry on the worlds most expensive record,

I love this bit:

A lot of excellent, well-known records have the same basic tropes as “officially approved” Northern Soul classics, sharing the same mid-Sixties Motown beat-driven sound, but if the record sold a lot of copies (Jackie Wilson’s peerless (I Get The) Sweetest Feelin, for instance, or the Chiffons’ similarly magnificent Sweet Talkin’ Guy) then, regardless of intrinsic quality, some Northern aficionados will disdain the song and even the artist as “Not Northern”. A badge of dishonour, wielded with ever more painful swings here in the days of the Internet; it used to just be newbies and DJs making and fulfilling the “wrong” requests who’d be on the receiving end of this scorn, but nowadays, woe betide the hapless poster in a Northern Soul Facebook group who accidentally shares something which a joyless trainspotter decries as Not Northern.

 

[St. Fechin]

681. Frank Wilson: "Do I Love You (Indeed I Do)"

such a great entry on the worlds most expensive record,

I love this bit:

haha

 

[Lili Marlene]

Dunno if this was posted before but...

"On Vice"

Vice: We've Been Had, and We Let It Happen | Hazlitt

 

[Scientician 0.8]

681. Frank Wilson: "Do I Love You (Indeed I Do)"

such a great entry on the worlds most expensive record,

I love this bit:

Jesus that site looks like it could suck you in and never let you go.

 

[Lili Marlene]

Jesus that site looks like it could suck you in and never let you go.

that has happened to me before. Hasn't been updated in 6 months though! The comments section is a great read when old people from Motown start appearing in them with factoids and correcting stuff.

 

[Lili Marlene]

Dunno if this was posted before but...

"On Vice"

Vice: We've Been Had, and We Let It Happen | Hazlitt

actually, worth reading in tandem with Una Mallula's worshipping post on Viceland

F**k, That’s Delicious! Viceland gets ready to invade your television

 

[тхеодоре кацзынски]

Spike Jonze is white? Who would have thought? (Not me obviously).

 

[David Kronenbourg]

Spike Jonze is white? Who would have thought? (Not me obviously).

really? where have you been hiding for the last 15 years?

 

[тхеодоре кацзынски]

really? where have you been hiding for the last 15 years?

Outside the counterculture it seems. I had Spike Lee/Jonze confusion. They all look the same to me.

 

[David Kronenbourg]

Outside the counterculture it seems. I had Spike Lee/Jonze confusion. They all look the same to me.

I was thinking you must have had them confused because Spike Jonze is one of the whitest people who’s ever lived

 

[тхеодоре кацзынски]

I was thinking you must have had them confused because Spike Jonze is one of the whitest people who’s ever lived

Yeah, I just know the name, I knew Spike Lee is black so lazily assumed Jonze was too.