February 2012
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Young Critics Circle Film Desk: Adolf Alix's Haruo... →
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Haruo, Adolfo Alix Jr.’s tale about a Yakuza member seeking to lead a new life in Manila, got the nod of the Young Critics Circle as the best film of 2011. Rodolfo Vera bagged the best screenplay award for Niño, a story about a once-elite family trying to fight off inevitable decline. Other…
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“All over the country in those days young mean were tending newspapers, writing...”
– Nick Joaquin, The Woman Who Had Two Navels
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“If you’re like salt
come lie upon my wounds.”
– Khalīl Tālaqānī
“Certain voices stand like monuments upon the landscape of 20th century pop,...”
– Ann Powers
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Anonymous asked: who is speaking in the poem?
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“I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound or stab us. If the...”
– Franz Kafka (via troubled)
themonkeyandtheturtle:
The Monkey and the Turtle (2012-02-05) by randomsalt
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themonkeyandtheturtle:
The Monkey and the Turtle (2012-02-03) by randomsalt
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January 2012
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Witchgrass - Louise Glück
Something comes into the world unwelcome calling disorder, disorder— If you hate me so much don’t bother to give me a name: do you need one more slur in your language, another way to blame one tribe for everything— as we both know, if you worship one god, you only need one enemy— I’m not the enemy. Only a ruse to ignore what you see happening right here in this bed, a little paradigm of failure. ...
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Young Critics Circle Film Desk: On Criticism →
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Eulalio R. Guieb III
Criticism interrogates. It interrogates our individual and collective experiences with meanings. There are meanings that detain us in the prisons of our oppressors, and there are meanings that tell us which truths are more preferred under the contingencies of our…
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Why the Poor Pay More →
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by DeNeen L. Brown
You have to be rich to be poor. That’s what some people who have never lived below the poverty line don’t understand. Put it another way: The poorer you are, the more things cost.
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“I believe that this could be catastrophic in terms of HIV prevention.”
– Michael Weinstein, president the AIDS Healthcare Foundation. Weinstein was commenting on drugmaker Gilead’s application for FDA approval to market its HIV treatment medication Truvada as a HIV prevention pill. If Truvada is approved for preventive use, it “would be the first agent indicated for...
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themonkeyandtheturtle:
The Monkey and the Turtle (2012-02-01) by randomsalt