December 2010
2 tags
1 tag
“There are eras of human history in which the channels of thought have been too...”
– ‘Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance,’ by Robert M. Pirsig (1974).
1 tag
1 tag
1 tag
1 tag
1 tag
2 tags
“The fear in meeting people who read this blog is that I do not live up to...”
– by BRITTICISMS.
2 tags
“The minute you think that the past was better, your present is second hand,...”
– Karl Lagerfeld, via Anothersomething.
Hollywood Moves Away From Middlebrow Movies. →
1 tag
1 tag
20 Simple Steps to the Perfect Persuasive Message. →
1 tag
“To love is good, too: love being difficult. For one human being to love another:...”
– Rainer Maria Rilke via the ugly earring.
1 tag
2 tags
"It appears to be an unspoken rule that life, as... →
1 tag
The Zombies, ‘This will be our year.’...
The magic of Instapaper.
Since I started using it properly six weeks ago, instead playing with it in a desultory way, Instapaper has changed my life - or at least how I spend my time when I’m on public transport. It lets you save articles of any length, stripped of annoying formatting, for reading later - even when you have no internet connection. It’s simple and beautiful. Here are some of my...
1 tag
“Every zombie war is a war of attrition. It’s always a numbers game. And it’s...”
– Why we’re obsessed with zombies, by Chuck Klosterman.
1 tag
What Good Is Wall Street? Much of what investment... →
1 tag
Fictional artifacts. →
2 tags
“It's [...] very cinematic. The music allows you... →
iPods and the “intimate, profoundly antisocial relationship, between oneself, one’s music, and one’s earbuds.”
1 tag
2 tags
1 tag
1 tag
Bundle up, it’s global warming. We’re freezing not... →
2 tags
“Somerset Maugham’s edict to write what you know is among the dumbest...”
– ‘In Which We Realize We Hated Lost In Translation In Retrospect,’ Somewhere review on This Recording.
1 tag
“I wanted to stop acting. I hated it. I really hated it. I remember when I was...”
– Jessica Alba about acting via Oh No They Didn’t!
2 tags
“If John were around today he’d love Facebook. He would love the way the world...”
– Yoko Ono on John Lennon via Clem Bastow.
1 tag
1 tag
1 tag
“I’ve never seen compassion as an abstract noun. If you accept that we’re all...”
– An Interview with Chris Kraus, in Tarpaulin Sky V4n2 (via jomc)
1 tag
1 tag
There’s no holly, but there is the glass and granite towers and the white stone lions and the pale violet clouds. And the great tree of balls in Rockefeller Plaza is public. Christmas is green and general like all great works of the imagination, swelling from minute private sentiments in the desert, a wreath around our intimacy like children’s voices in a park. For red there is our...
1 tag
Recipe: Tuscan Bean Soup →
2 tags
2 tags
2 tags
1 tag
2 tags
1 tag
2 tags
“I wasn’t distracted, not exactly. It wasn’t the same as not being able to pay...”
– I, Reader by Alexander Chee (read it all at The Morning News).
1 tag
“Desperado,” The Langley Schools Music...
1 tag
2 tags
The spectre of the unanswered letter
If we do not respect ourselves … we are peculiarly in thrall to everyone we see, curiously determined to live out — since our self-image is untenable — their false notions of us. We flatter ourselves by thinking this compulsion to please others an attractive trait: a gist for imaginative empathy, evidence of our willingness to give. Of course I will play Francesca to your Paolo, Hellen...
1 tag
