April 2010
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“maybe that’s
why i blog. i can keep an archive
of impressionable things,...”
– Cerré via M. Dash
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“the extension of precision-guided advertising into social life is […]...”
– n+1: The Intellectual Situation
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“It’s like The Catcher In The Rye or On The Road in that it’s often...”
– This Recording on The New Yorker.
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“The thing I’ve learned—lo, from my perch of wisdom—is that if someone attacks...”
– Emily Gould (interviewed by Curtis Sittenfeld) New York Magazine
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“The Tories keep on talking about the X Factor, and the point about the X Factor...”
– Labour’s David Miliband puts Gordon Brown’s lack of razzle dazzle in perspective in The Guardian
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“Psychology is also at work when you look at the women of Paris. The principle at...”
– Ionarts via Marginal Revolution
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WHAT'S HAPPENED TO THE SEASONS? | More Intelligent... →
It was 28 degrees in Melbourne two days ago - and it’s almost May.
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Here are some easy ways to demonstrate that you’re...
I wasn’t born knowing this stuff so I don’t expect anyone else to have been, either.
1) Comment under your real name. “But I can’t, I’d get fired from my job for posting such inflammatory/mean/personal blog comments.” Ok, so it’s time to reevaluate either the kind of job you have or the kind of thing you’re saying online. Have a coherent identity? Congratulations; you deserve to have a...
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“As citizens, we consider our family, our friends and, most of all, our children...”
– David Hare: “Mere fact, mere fiction,” The Guardian
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“Is this true? Is this a true story?” is a question you hear asked...”
– David Hare: “Mere fact, mere fiction,” The Guardian
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“Lady Gaga sells the promise of outré weirdness without ever being genuinely...”
– Lady Gaga Critique at PopMatters
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“Fashion fulfils a [significant] role in the consumer economy, by providing a...”
– In “Fashionomics,” Jason Potts argues that fashion should be viewed as an important part of economics rather than a series of “occasionally interdependent preferences that sometimes shift randomly. Centre for Independent Studies via Marginal Utility.
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“That walk became a complete personal drama. Ulay started from the Gobi desert...”
– Marina Abramović. In 1988, after several years of tense relations with her boyfriend and collaborator, Ulay, they decided to make a spiritual journey which would end their relationship. Each of them walked the Great Wall of China, starting from the two opposite ends and meeting in the middle.
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The Importance of Words in Multimedia Storytelling →
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“I don’t think I have ever in my life answered a ringing telephone without...”
– J.D. Salinger
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“Texting is a truly tricky form for the ironist - very brief texts are difficult...”
– The final irony The Guardian
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“Many people suffer from the fear of finding oneself alone, and so they don’t...”
– Rollo May, Man’s Search for Himself (via psychotherapy)
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Buy Japanese lifestyle/home/interior/design... →
via Hello Sandwich
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“One of the more tiresome criticisms offered about classical music is that it is...”
– Simon Heffer in the Telegraph.
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“If I write it, it’s grammatical.”
– Muriel Spark forbade her editors to alter so much as a punctuation mark without permission.
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