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Sufjan Stevens Renames Kitchen Appliances

Perishables! Come Congregate in the Cold! Little Hot Waves, Or, Let’s Get Brain Cancer While We Wait For The Popcorn Mix Your Drinks! (Stir! Whip! Purée!) A Configuration of Whisks Which, When Activated, Allow Sufjan Stevens to Cook a Fluffier Omelette Toaster (For the Toastless)

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There’s a currently popular argument that books help us feel empathy, but if they do so they do it by helping us imagine that we are people we are not. Or to go deeper within ourselves, to be more aware of what it means to be heartbroken, or ill, or six, or ninety-six, or completely lost. Not just versions of our self rendered awesome and eternally justified and always right, living in a world in which other people only exist to help reinforce our magnificence, though those kinds of books and comic books and movies exist in abundance and cater to the male imagination. Which is a reminder that literature and art can also help us fail at empathy if it sequesters us in the Boring Old Fortress of Magnificent Me.
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I BEEN INSIDE ON THE DAILY

The cup of tea, Andre Derain / I Don’t Like Shit, I Don’t Go Outside, Earl Sweatshirt

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wnyc

When a 250% rent hike threatened to kill his Brooklyn bodega, Jesse Itayim decided to make some really sassy signs: http://bit.ly/1HnYgCx (via sideshow

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tetw

Mastermind by Alex Perry - The evil genius behind the European migrant crisis

The Wetsuitman by Anders Fjellberg - Last winter two bodies were found in Norway and the Netherlands. They were wearing identical wetsuits. The police in three countries were involved in the case, but never managed to identify them. This is the story of who they were

America’s Berlin Wall by Dan Baum - A three part series looking the effect immigration has on Mexicans families that straddle the border

Desperate Passage by Michael Finkel - Crammed onto a 23-foot boat with 44 Haitians, the author witnesses the horrors that people will endure to make it to America

Hecho en América by Jeanne Marie Laskas - It’s easy to have an opinion about immigration, and easier to forget that people — actual people — pick our food

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Photo break: If the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles looked like the artists they were named after…

The mural is simple yet incredibly eye-catching, it shows real-life Michelangelo, Donatello, Rafael, and Leonardo Da Vinci wearing the Ninja Turtle masks.

by Owen Dippie via LAEM

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kategavino

Authors as Breakfast Cereal Mascots by Kate Gavino

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aaknopf

Cat Sized Frosted Murakami Wheats!!

Never underestimate the amount of time I spend thinking about author name puns.