Bizarre! I was just settling in to collect my May Twitter-links for a big Unrequired Reading when I discovered that last month’s load o’ links never went live! So here’s all of April’s great stuff! I’ll post May’s tomorrow!
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It’s time for another month’s worth of Twitter links, dear readers! If you want to follow along, I’m at twitter.com/groth18!
First, the retweets:
RT @mookiewilson86 (paul raff): David Koresh had a better homestand than the Mets.
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RT @ESQStyle Esquire Style: And the best-dressed male guest at the #RoyalWedding is… not David Beckham.
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RT @felixsalmon (felix salmon): Wherein Martin Amis blathers on for 4,000 dutiful but unnecessary words about Christopher Hitchens.
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RT @kylevanblerk (Kyle van Blerk): Client request of the year.
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RT @simondoonan (Simon Doonan): Creative factory: Simon Doonan, My Faves!
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RT @GreatDismal (William Gibson): “WE HELPED YOUR GRANDAD GET LAID” #daytonbootsvancouver
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RT @mattzollerseitz (Matthew Zoller Seitz): “‘After Hours’ exists to prove that ‘Taxi Driver’ actually displayed some restraint. @notjustmovies
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RT @JPosnanski (Joe Posnanski): In honor of touching CNN story, I write a little more about Nick Charles and a moment I’ll never forget.
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RT @asymmetricinfo (Megan McArdle): Why Europe won’t develop as an independent military power
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RT @kottke (kottke.org): Hilarious fake TLC promo
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RT @kylevanblerk (Kyle van Blerk): Bored at work. Photoshopping Bieber’s head onto things.
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RT @questlove (?Love of The Roots): Man. Not even “OJ Guilt” is the proper colloquialism for what I feel after eatin Cinnabon.
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And now, the links!
NBA Action: Bet On It! #IhadSpursandMagicinthefinals
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Ah, #vodka, with your “marketing gimmicks that make getting drunk seem like a gateway to fame and fortune”
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The bowling alley of the #Frick: it’s no basement of the Alamo, but still.
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There’s now a computer as dumb as my boss. #thatswhatshesaid
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Joe Queenan goofs on the #gehry glut.
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Is anyone at the #royalwedding sporting a monkey-tail beard?
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Via @khoi, abandoned Yugoslavia monuments of awesomeness.
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Xanadu comes back to life! (Will #MichaelBeck and @olivianj be at the opening?)
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Xanadu: More of disaster than @XanaduMovie? #likedecoratinganuclearreactor #bringbacktheAlexander’smural
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In the movie, I see Billy Bob Thornton as the local, and Pesci as the mobster: #greateststoryever #trustme
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“Tefillin: it’s like Jewish blood pressure.” Go, @MitzvahTank! #areyouJewish?
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Will nobody think of the #pistachios?!
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#AllStarSuperman never should’ve released the sun-eater from captivity:
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The Walk of Shame goes #StreetStyle, via @sartorialist
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So VCs are like the AIDS activists of our time?
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I’m all for taking advantage of gorgeous chicks, but sheesh! #modelscam (via @felixsalmon)
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#HaroldBloom and his “elite Europhile glasses” #agon
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Eat lead! #staedtler and #fabercastell at war
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Every so often, I remind myself why I find contempo literary fiction useless and stultifyingly dull
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Go read this #BenKatchor interview! Nownownow! #CardboardValise (just plow through the “what is comics?” section)
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@felixsalmon delivers a (much appreciated) Jonathan Franzen smackdown
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@witoldr on the secret language of architects.
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This #Houdini article escapes from the need to write in complete sentences. #escapeartistry
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I guess I oughtta get around to reading #GeoffDyer sometime, huh?
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In honor of tonight’s season 2 premiere of #Treme on #HBO, check out this interview with #WendellPierce (#BunkMoreland)
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#ChrisElliott has a DAUGHTER on SNL? #igrowold
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Ron Rosenbaum implores us to visit (Joyce’s) Ithaca (but not much else). (I admit I’ll likely skip #Ulysses)
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I’m awfully happy with my @allenedmonds, I have to say
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I look down on my wife. #shekicksmeintheshins
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Is it good or bad that my TV/movie/prose diet is so similar to that of #StevenSoderbergh? #MillersCrossing!
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25 years ago: Graceland and the Gatwick Baby
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“People who drink coffee are different in many ways from those who don’t drink coffee” #whataboutgin?
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Geoff Dyer on being allergic to David Foster Wallace’s writing (his compare/contrast w/Federer is great)
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“You look into the fiery furnace and see the rich man without any name” #wallstreet
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Neat video of @billy_reid at home.
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@simondoonan on camp: “I am not the brightest Art Nouveau lamp in the room…” #needIsaymore?
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NOLA: The Big Hypothetical
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Fun interview with Glenn O’Brien, onetime Warhol employee and current #StyleGuy for #GQ: #howtobeaman #glennobrien
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Ah, get back to me around yer 20th reunion, ya young bastid.
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Neat take on Android, Google’s business model, and moats.
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Authors and broken promises. #Icantgetstarted
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I would prefer not to poke you. #groupmeh
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Um, the good news is that “cancer” doesn’t exist (the bad news is that it’s more complex than anyone thought) #uhoh
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Would it have more success if it were called a “scrodpiece”? #probablynot
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“It’s still real to me, dammit!” #soareconcussions #andearlydeath #wwe
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When Antonioni met Tarkovsky: #shakeitlikeaPolaroidpicture
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RPG = Rocket-Powered Genius (of design) #rocketpunchgeneration
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@rupaul answers all questions, except, “What’s up with the mustache?” #dragrace
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@david_j_roth speaks truth to pizza (I still don’t understand how @pizzahut stays in business here in NJ.)
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Is there a Damien Hirst level to unlock? #jeffkoonsmustdie
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By @mattnycs: Vote for the man in the small hat: a rabbi runs for office … in Uganda: Parts I and II #really
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Hot chicks with (old) douchebags: #Iblamesociety #Ialsoblamehotchicks
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No Shakespeare in Topeka? #talentnotgenius #billjames
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#Koppenburg: why I don’t bike. #whoneedstheexercise?
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Accidental Mysteries: masked #seenandunseen
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GREAT piece by @comicsreporter on a trip to the #centerforcartoonstudies
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Because, as we know from #chrisrock, books are like Kryptonite to… certain people: #padandquill
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Darkness at Noonan: #tomgoestothebar (happy 60th, Tom Noonan!)
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And I close this month’s edition with a non-link:
“I used to believe that worry was a talisman against something bad happening to you.” thx for the wisdom, @ConanOBrien (& @MarcMaron)!