I just wanted to share my favorite artist ever — Shiina Ringo. She's unbelievably talented and dynamic. She's done jazz, pop, blues, rock, big band, etc... most of her songs don't even really have a genre, crazy compositions, strange instruments... She also loves covering her own songs in different genres, notably…

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@lillianc: Scribd.com is kind of hit or miss, but free and open. It bills itself as the Youtube of documents, so a lot of its content is random papers by random people, but it does have a good number of real books (Gravity's Rainbow!) including a lot of academic/scholarly stuff you wouldn't expect to be online.…

@lillianc: The screen isn't backlit at all, just uses ambient light, so it's more like reading paper than a screen. Lightweight, can be held with one hand comfortably, no fumbling with spines/pages. Battery lasts over a week with wireless off. Any book written before 1923 is copyright-free and can be downloaded from…

@token_liberal: I don't think American troops started coming back until after the Treaty of Versailles was signed by Germany in the middle of 1919. I'm not exactly sure when the US started demobbing, but I do know there were some Americans who didn't get home until early 1920.

@a.seivewright: Y'know, the 2035 one really looks like the Carver from Nip/Tuck. Creepiest logo ever.

@MaggieF: No. She doesn't draw from art at all, though. All her sources are writings from the period (1st-4th or 5th century for the most part), mostly the titular Gnostic gospels found at Nag Hammadi, which she'd helped translate from Coptic a few years before she published the book.

...it can't be unseen.

@LaComtesse: My favorite part of To Kill a Mockingbird is when Atticus Finch convinces the jury to find Tom Robinson innocent and they all live happily ever after.

@wünsch dir was: I feel like Scalia always considers intent, but in the context "What would Reagan intend this law to mean?"

@TheFormerJuneBronson: Yeah, and then Court rulings affirmed that sex-based discrimination could be judged at a lower legal standard than race or religion-based. Sigh.

@Kaiser-Machead: "Antonin Scalia, in a surprising reversal of his reading of the 8th Amendment, says that tarring and feathering Antonin Scalia constitutes cruel and unusual punishment."

Long version: "You will never hear me refer to original intent, because as I say I am first of all a textualist, and secondly an originalist. If you are a textualist, you don't care about the intent, and I don't care if the framers of the Constitution had some secret meaning in mind when they adopted its words." —…

@Mochafor!: ...oh. We both thought they were the same guy.

@Miss Suka: Ha! My roommate and I got into an argument about whether the movie's choreographer or its male lead had gotten her pregnant until we realized they were one and the same.

@i'm going to have my friends call me valerie: (in reply to your comment to Miss Suka) Dude. Has he not seen Pi or Requiem for a Dream? I'd totally let him think it was a chick flick going in and watch his face for the horrified expression once the first totally fucked up scene goes down.

@Miss Suka: Wanted to share two suggested interpretations I read in GT that make me want to rewatch the movie with them in mind. 1) What if the mother didn't actually exist? 2) Think of the whole movie as a retelling of Swan Lake, through the medium of a ballet company putting on Swan Lake. Both suggestions seriously…

@i'm going to have my friends call me valerie: Well then, assuming you both like the movie, you will have a hell of a lot to talk about. And that's always awesome for a first date. Have fun!

@ImeldaMacGuyver: (spoilers?) I'm not sure how may guys blocked this part out of their brains, but for me that scene was like, "Ooo, cool, this is titillating, oo, sexy, so th—oh my god, her shoulders, they're... wtf." It went from sexy to horrifying in about 0.5 seconds.

@i'm going to have my friends call me valerie: Well... the movie's big hitters are a) psychological exploration and b) squick. Suffice it to say, it put me in the mood for whatever is the opposite of sexytimes. Just sayin'.