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12. I’m never sure if I’m using the phrase ‘mutually exclusive’ correctly.

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Ranking Revolutionary Road and Yates’s 6 other novels.

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And it’s not just that the characters find themselves in depressing situation after depressing situation (well, they kind of do), it’s the fact that the scope of the novel makes every depressing instance so much more tragic because you’re highly familiar with what lead each character to the sad place they’re in currently.

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CL: Who’s like your closest friend?

TL: Oh god. I just felt like…really alone when you said that.

CL: Oh no! I’m sorry.

TL: Oh wait, there has to be someone.

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It might seem petty to vocally lambaste Bock’s assertion that ‘the celebrity monikers are presumably screen names’ [re: main characters Haley Joel Osment and Dakota Fanning], but even an amateur blogger or casual internet user should immediately be aware that this is not the case. The last time the phrase ‘screen name’ was relevant was on AOL [circa 1992-1998ish].

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Today The Stranger parodied, satirized, honored, pastiched, complicated, and/or reimagined (or somethinged) the Franzen-cover issue of Time…

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I think some writers could mention the hipster’s obsession with clothes or music, but every American subculture has an obsession with defining themselves with clothes and music. That is just being American.

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More stock shit talking on Tao Lin, word of murdering hipsters, Sean Penn on cocaine and a butt-hurt Wyclef Jean on this week’s Internet Shit Talking in review.