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Posted 1 week ago on January 15 2012


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You’ve never had a big sister and you need one. Look at you. You’re a Boy King. You’re a foot smarter than the smartest kid in the class. You’re blessed with inspiration. You must know this by now. You must have sensed it. Look, if you think we’re wrong… if you think Mr. Hopkins should honestly get paid more than Mrs. Chadwick, then I respect that. But if you think we’re right and you won’t speak up because you can’t be bothered, then God, Jed, I don’t even want to know you.

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Posted 2 weeks ago on January 11 2012


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Posted 3 months ago on October 10 2011


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pococurante:

Book designs by Coralie Bickford-Smith

Rarely have I wanted anything quite as much as I want these.

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Posted 3 months ago on October 9 2011


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On getting your news.

dearcoketalk:

Dear Coquette,

Where do you get your news? Growing up, I watched both my siblings reach a phase where they realized that the major news resources are heavily biased, so they jumped to the independent, conspiracy-theory-laden end of the spectrum and started eating it up just because it was different. As a result, I checked out altogether. I figured all news is biased, so why bother?

I know I’m not exactly helping the situation by asking someone else to spoon-feed me a news source I can trust, but I’m 22, and I’m tired of feeling sheltered and stupid. I don’t want to be willfully ignorant, but I know I’m naive and don’t have the critical thinking skills or instincts to know when a reporter is full of crap. I’m afraid that I’m the type to mindlessly buy whatever I’m told. How do I get my head out of my ass?


Congratulations. The very fact that you’re tired of feeling sheltered and stupid means you’ve already pulled your head out of your ass. The real trick now is to make sure you don’t shove it up someone else’s by blindly trusting any spoon-fed news source. 

Instead, you have to start trusting your own capacity for rational thought. Learn how to analyze the media. Ask questions. Challenge assumptions. Check sources. Most importantly, don’t get distracted by a little bias. Media bias is harmless when you can spot it, so quit whining about your naïveté and sharpen those critical thinking skills.

If you need a jumping-off point for becoming an independent thinker in the face of mass media, go pick up copies of “Manufacturing Consent” by Noam Chomsky, “Understanding Media” by Marshall McLuhan and “Letters to a Young Contrarian” by Christopher Hitchens.

Read them, reread them and then read them again. They may frustrate you at first, but don’t give up. Every time you hit an unfamiliar reference, light up Google and learn something. Remember, it’s not about what to think. It’s about a way to think.

I promise, you are capable of clear and independent thought. You don’t need to be spoon-fed anything. Once you trust in your own ability to analyze the media, you will be able to consume any source of news, chew it up, and spit out all the bias and bullshit.

Do I really need to add more? Media literacy in this country is absolutely atrocious. We need to start teaching this early. It can’t wait until high school or college. Let’s get second graders to start analyzing Dora. Establish the framework for critical thinking early, and build upon it.


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Posted 4 months ago on September 29 2011


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Posted 5 months ago on August 5 2011


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This seems to have become little more than an archive of my adventures with upholstering, so here’s the most recent project.
It’s the desk (by which I mean an old door on some legs) that was in the picture of the last project, but I’ve covered it with leather-like vinyl. Which—I know!—is so cheap and sometimes tacky, but it’s so much better than the hideously textured white door. It smooths everything out and took maybe thirty minutes. I’ve never been terribly happy with the way the door-desk turned out; I loved the amount of surface area, but something never seemed right about it.
Apparently, I just hate white desks.


This seems to have become little more than an archive of my adventures with upholstering, so here’s the most recent project.

It’s the desk (by which I mean an old door on some legs) that was in the picture of the last project, but I’ve covered it with leather-like vinyl. Which—I know!—is so cheap and sometimes tacky, but it’s so much better than the hideously textured white door. It smooths everything out and took maybe thirty minutes. I’ve never been terribly happy with the way the door-desk turned out; I loved the amount of surface area, but something never seemed right about it.

Apparently, I just hate white desks.


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Posted 7 months ago on June 6 2011


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Posted 8 months ago on May 22 2011


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Just finished my weekend reupholstery project.
It’s the chair from here, and obviously I didn’t deviate too far from the first reupholstering, but the color is more neutral and the old had become really disgusting.
So this time I used Scotchguard!


Just finished my weekend reupholstery project.

It’s the chair from here, and obviously I didn’t deviate too far from the first reupholstering, but the color is more neutral and the old had become really disgusting.

So this time I used Scotchguard!


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Posted 9 months ago on April 19 2011


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Posted 9 months ago on April 3 2011


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This may be tantamount to sacrilege, but I prefer American Coke to Mexican Coke.


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