August 2010
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We think of time as a constant, but there is... →
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I liked you better before you got your iPhone →
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OBSESSED WITH: “Me and Julio,” Paul...
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“Oh my, you have a lot of gall, don’t you? A lot of gall! Continue.”
– Bret Easton Ellis in this entirely absurd interview.
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TRENDING
Facebook messages from 2005/2006:
obsolete ex-boyfriends depicted in deluded, purple prose; lotta Lysistrata references; earnest recaps of now-notorious parties; terrible advice both given and received; complex theories of personality spun from nothing other than sartorial signifiers; horrifying, detached analysis of people I now know well; girls getting described as “sweet but blah”...
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All the Sad Young Literary Women →
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“The philosophy behind much advertising is based on the old observation that...”
– William Feather, quoted in this story about Alex Bogusky.
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On Air and On Error: This American Life's Ira... →
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Don Draper, Off His Game →
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“Millions of Americans who by objective standards belong to the working class or...”
– The fantasy of a vast upper middle class, Salon.com via The Awl.
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NEW LIFE
On Sunday evening, I deleted Twitter and Tumblr off my phone, and besides for a five minute relapse this afternoon, they have stayed deleted. It was all just starting to feel too much like an eating disorder or like academic mania — being preoccupied with thoughts you don’t care about, compulsively seeking information that is at once overwhelming and boring, soliciting the approval of people...
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What We Need Is Here
Geese appear high over us, pass, and the sky closes. Abandon, as in love or sleep, holds them to their way, clear in the ancient faith: what we need is here. And we pray, not for new earth or heaven, but to be quiet in heart, and in eye, clear. What we need is here.
- Wendell Berry
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WatchThe music video for The Wave Pictures - Sweetheart was made entirely out of second hand books.
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“Even books, like romance, will live on. They will continue to be exchanged, and...”
– Why I’ll miss a world where books make the first move, by Mark Oppenheimer Slate Magazine
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The Allure of Messy Lives →
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“Most people I know have problems with Internet addiction. We’re all trying...”
– Paul Graham, The Acceleration of Addictiveness
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July 2010
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