April 2011
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“No one, of course, will ever forget Derek Jeter’s final at-bat. He came to...”
– ” ‘Champion Champion Dignity Champion Dignity Champion’ The Legend of Derek Jeter: An Examination in five parts” Sam Anderson’s Riff in the April 3, 2011 NYT Magazine.
The most hilarious thing I’ve read in a long time.
January 2011
2 posts
“A study at University College London in the UK has found that conservatives’...”
– Study: Conservatives have larger ‘fear center’ in brain | Raw Story (via militantagnostic)
Enfield, CT mayor cancels screening of 'Sicko' (We... →
My mom called last night to read me this story from my hometown. Enfield has been tallying up the ACLU-worthy violations: last year for holding its public school graduation in a church and now for cancelling “Sicko” because the mayor would prefer the library just “do nice stuff” like show ‘Finding Nemo.’ (One of the mayor’s main concerns seems to be that...
July 2010
2 posts
June 2010
5 posts
Dave Eggers on "selling out" vs. "saying yes" →
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austinkleon:
This e-mail is making the rounds. I’d reblog it from someone, but that would seem pointless. What I really like are the bits about the Flaming Lips and “saying yes”:
The thing is, I really like saying yes. I like new things, projects, plans, getting people together and doing something, trying something, even when it’s corny or stupid. I am not good at saying...
May 2010
4 posts
“It is 146 minutes long… This is an entirely inappropriate length for what...”
– - A hilarious review of Sex & the City II
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“BP wants Twitter to shut down a fake BP account that is mocking the oil company....”
– JIMMY FALLON, Late Night
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“I also want to observe that our response to every film depends on the person we...”
– - Roger Ebert, via.
Yes, he’s reviewing Letters to Juliet, probably not the best film ever made. But I thought there was something really beautiful about the way he put that.
April 2010
5 posts
“But you cannot say this often enough: Good-paying jobs don’t come from bailouts....”
– Thomas Friedman “Start-Ups, Not Bailouts.”
March 2010
7 posts
“New Rule: You can’t use the statement “there will be no cooperation for the rest...”
– Bill Maher
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“[This kind of woman is] fond of cupcakes and feminist theory but unsure how to...”
– Sady Doyle, “13 Ways of Looking at Liz Lemon”
Start it for the spectacular turns of phrase, finish it for the genuinely stunning thoughtfulness.
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Today in Stories We're Obsessed With
So proud of my hometown. Enfield in the news!
newsweek:
From today’s Hartford Courant:
Sometime in the early morning Sunday, thieves scaled the walls of the Eli Lilly warehouse on Freshwater Boulevard. As a light rain fell, they cut a hole in the roof of the 70,000-square-foot building and slid down ropes to get inside. They disabled the building’s alarm system, and police believe they ...
“Longman’s having none of it. “At best, that growing suggestion is...”
– Re: the suggestion that the UConn women’s dominance of women’s college basketball is “bad for the sport”.
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“We—adjuncts, full-time professors, researchers, administrators, politicians, and...”
– - James Mulholland
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Today is one of those days where I am both happy that I didn’t continue on for my PhD and at the same time missing it like crazy.
“A chief virtue of digital books is said to be their economical size—they take up...”
– The Millions: In Our Parents’ Bookshelves (via everythinginthesky : morrowplanet : clapifyoulikeme)
Books out of identity, identity out of books.
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Yes, yes, yes. My thoughts exactly, put much better than I could have.
February 2010
14 posts
“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the...”
– James Baldwin (via youaretheroots) (via libraryland)
“He spoke for the next 13 and a half minutes. He spoke … like this. There was …...”
– “The Sports Guy” Bill Simmons
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“The government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on...”
– Treaty signed by George Washington, 1796.
[Our Founders Were NOT Fundamentalists | The Smirking Chimp]
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“One of the things our grandchildren will find quaintest about us is that we...”
– William Gibson (via binkythedoormat)
Six Word Story
Someone mentioned Hemingway’s famous six word story today -
For sale: baby shoes, never worn.
He’s said to have considered it his best work.
So now I’m having fun googling “six word story” while I’m supposed to be doing work. There’s a whole blog devoted to it, and Wired commissioned other authors to come up with their own. Smith magazine also...
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Films Of The 2000’s
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The Daily Show’s mash up and run down of what happened when the President made mental midgets out of the House Republicans at their retreat - crooksandliars
Money quote - Stewart’s dead on analysis of Fox near the end.
“We’re going to cut away because this is against the narrative we are trying to project.”
“Smart people often talk trash about happiness, and worse than trash about books...”
– “The Rap on Happiness”
Amy Bloom in Sunday’s Book Review on the annoying simplification of happiness in the self-help genre.
Read it.
January 2010
11 posts
“The biggest change in politics in my lifetime is that the delusional is no...”
– Bill Moyers
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David Simon is God (or: My Love Affair with The...
I’m obsessed with The Wire and David Simon. The man is a genius.
This morning I was reminded just how much I love him when I came across this extract from the introduction to a new book on The Wire. He writes:
The first thing we had to do was teach people to watch television in a different way, to slow themselves down and pay attention, to immerse themselves in a way that the medium had...
“Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you...”
– Margaret Thatcher (via johannal) (via quote-book)