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Monthly Archives: December 2012

Idealizing old media? Remember its flaws, too.

26 Wednesday Dec 2012

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Tonight, I was digging into Andrew Romano’s delicious nine-page oral history of print Newsweek. I was daydreaming about three-martini lunches and adventures and an editorial process that dragged, dragged, dragged until suddenly, production night was there and everyone was drunk and all the words were beautiful.

It’s not the drunkenness that appealed to me so much as the adventures, the stories of Sherpas dragging a Jeep through the mud and a bartender who said, “You guys are from Newsweek? You should probably know the president’s been shot.” I was nostalgic. I wanted to be that kind of reporter in that kind of world.

And then this section smacked me in the face.  Continue reading →

The best sentence I read all week

20 Thursday Dec 2012

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If Matt Badger is right, and all their lives were fated for this, then by the time a six-foot-four-inch military policeman with aqua eyes and a deep southern accent approached Pauline McCarthy’s desk at the base commander’s office at Ernest Harmon Air Force Base in Newfoundland in 1961, it was already well under way.

-Dan P. Lee, for New York Magazine

What it feels like to be 22 in 2012

20 Thursday Dec 2012

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Senior year is terrifying.

Because I did everything right. I interned and freelanced and managing-edited and chased down stories and went days without sleep.

And it might not work out. It might not lead to anything.

I’ve always known that all the work I did entitled me to precisely nothing — that it’s a meritocracy, that it’s a sluggish economy, that it’s just not going to happen for some people and I might be one of them. Continue reading →

15 things you REALLY learn at App State

18 Tuesday Dec 2012

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Whether you’re an early grad or a super senior, an English major or pre-med, an East-sider or a West-sider…no one walks across the stage and shakes the Chancellor’s hand without learning these things:

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You’re not a bad person because you’re not tweeting about tragedy.

15 Saturday Dec 2012

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We all saw the unimaginable today: News reports about little children shot in their elementary-school classrooms. Our initial impulses were largely the same, I’d guess: grief, sadness, anger, sick confusion. Who does this? Who kills five-year-old babies?

And then, when the shock wore off, our reactions differed.

I wanted to talk about it. Tweet about it. I wanted to know what the president was saying, what people in Connecticut were saying, what the news media was doing. Continue reading →

This is how I believe.

08 Saturday Dec 2012

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The most satisfying and ecstatic faith is almost purely agnostic. It trusts absolutely without professing to know at all.

–H.L. Mencken

Grow

07 Friday Dec 2012

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Loneliness is the human condition. Cultivate it. The way it tunnels into you allows your soul room to grow.

-White Oleander

30 People Who Tweeted the Same Vampire Weekend Song Today

02 Sunday Dec 2012

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  1. cassidylo
    in december, drinking horchata
    the best@cassidylo

    Sat, Dec 01 2012 17:35:18

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  2. taylormunozz
    In December drinking horchata 
    taylor ◈@taylormunozz

    Sat, Dec 01 2012 15:14:05

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  3. adventurephil
    In December drinking horchata
    ▲▲Philip Lee ▲▲@adventurephil

    Sat, Dec 01 2012 15:06:08

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  4. TooRadical_
    In December, drinking horchata. ~
    Diego Robles ©@TooRadical_

    Sat, Dec 01 2012 17:16:17

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  5. Upper_Lib
    ♪In December drinking horchata♪
    Libby S@Upper_Lib

    Sat, Dec 01 2012 10:20:05

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  6. smhqueen
    in december drinking horchata
    i’d look psychotic in a balaclava
    ≈hannah karenina≈@smhqueen

    Sat, Dec 01 2012 17:16:23

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  7. _buttache
    “In December, drinking horchata.”<3
    Natalie陽@_buttache

    Sat, Dec 01 2012 16:58:26

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  8. hithuyvi
    IN DECEMBER DRINKING HORCHATA I LOOK PSYCHOTIC IN A BALACLAVA
    Trillary Duff@hithuyvi

    Sat, Dec 01 2012 12:55:40

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  9. _Meowriana
    I just got some from work & realized it is December! Omg we’re so H!p$t3r~ lol Rt “@JustinaRmz: In December drinking horchata..”
    ~☾~ Sailor Moon ~☆~@_Meowriana

    Sat, Dec 01 2012 16:26:48

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  10. cortneyxvaughn
    In December drinkin friggen horchata
    Cortney Leigh@cortneyxvaughn

    Sat, Dec 01 2012 17:08:21

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  11. Arianadorsh
    In freaking December drinking freaking horchata.
    Ariana Dorshkind@Arianadorsh

    Sat, Dec 01 2012 11:49:58

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  12. teagancarrie
    In December drinking..a horchata milkshake.
    teagan carrie@teagancarrie

    Sat, Dec 01 2012 14:55:33

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  13. @Abby_Bennett16 in December drinking horchata&#55356;&#57270;&#55357;&#56847; http://pic.twitter.com/sZyiUA1o
    Megan Smith@mismeggers

    Sat, Dec 01 2012 17:18:38

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  14. In December drinking horchata..&#55356;&#57212; http://instagr.am/p/StevVYCf3E/
    Chris Maldonado@Cristofemaldo_

    Sat, Dec 01 2012 14:27:30

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  15. In December, drinking horchata #vampireweekend #itfinallyhappened http://pic.twitter.com/IKWTxgdz
    Melanie S@irmelanie

    Sat, Dec 01 2012 12:28:47

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  16. In December drinking horchata. Oh Vampire Weekend, you’re too cool http://instagr.am/p/StVMjanrcg/
    Daniel Cobble@Daniel_Cobble

    Sat, Dec 01 2012 13:08:37

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  17. izzegibson
    every December 1st, I get a weird craving for horchata. can anyone explain this? @matsoR
    izze gibson@izzegibson

    Sat, Dec 01 2012 12:31:43

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  18. MaryPerson
    Happy December! Where is my horchata????
    Mary Pearson@MaryPerson

    Sat, Dec 01 2012 11:54:18

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  19. Deja_vuu_
    It’s December let’s all drink Horchata !
    Maggie ⚓ ✌ ∞@Deja_vuu_

    Sat, Dec 01 2012 13:31:12

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  20. luckystrikes23
    I’m drinking horchata in December….. Thinking about buying a balaclava and looking psychotic. #reallife #vampireweekend
    Jon Cheek@luckystrikes23

    Sat, Dec 01 2012 12:00:14

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  21. AlvarezAlex27
    In December drinking horchata I’d look psychotic bcause I’m drinking frikkin horchata in 60 degree weather #warmhorchata #stopsayinghorchata
    Alex Alvarez @AlvarezAlex27

    Sat, Dec 01 2012 10:46:14

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  22. athousandqian
    It’s December, who wants to go get horchata.
    Qian Wang@athousandqian

    Sat, Dec 01 2012 09:36:07

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  23. cuppycake_ritz
    It’s December, I need to drink some Horchata and listen to Vampire Weekend.
    Yaritza Quezada@cuppycake_ritz

    Sat, Dec 01 2012 10:04:44

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  24. laisakutcher
    it’s December?I NEED HORCHATA

    brazilian † german@laisakutcher

    Sat, Dec 01 2012 10:24:15

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  25. HandyMan1732
    horchata- a Mexican stlye, rice based drink. @vampireweekend says we should drink it, now thats it’s December. ive waited to long #newalbum?
    Nick Handrich@HandyMan1732

    Sat, Dec 01 2012 09:48:14

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  26. itscindyjtee
    In December Drinking Horchata.. – Vampire Weekend <3
    I can’t make it official till I actually find myself drinking Horchata. #IWantHorchata!
    Cindy J. Tepezano™ ツ@itscindyjtee

    Sat, Dec 01 2012 17:15:03

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  27. mehreeeen94
    In December drinking horchata, I’d look psychotic in a balaclava #december
    Mehreen Jamal@mehreeeen94

    Sat, Dec 01 2012 15:38:35

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  28. EmilyTDCC
    in december drinking horchata…. haha.. you get it…
    emily rose@EmilyTDCC

    Sat, Dec 01 2012 16:21:49

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  29. Why yes.
    Yes we do.

All the people you used to be.

01 Saturday Dec 2012

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I want to wake up in Mountaineer Hall on a fall production day, spend the whole day talking about nothing with my ed board, wrap things up two minutes before deadline and stay up too late talking some more.

I want to spend a junior-year morning at High Country Press picking through emails and press releases, walk down the hill to my evening class (back when going to class was a thing that made sense), put the finishing touches on a story for The Appalachian and fall asleep talking to my best friend. Continue reading →

The best sentence I read all week:

01 Saturday Dec 2012

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“Third, many humblebraggers take solace in a rationalization that runs roughly, ‘I’m not throwing away my afternoon on the Internet, I’m waging a jihad of quirky auto-branding.'”

— Henry Alford, for The New York Times

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