January 2012
14 posts
1 tag
“I thought becoming rich and famous would make me happy. Boy was I right.”
– Mitt Romney, page 200 (via think-progress)
“LOL”
Crazy Blues →
Early Urban and Rural Blues
“The Artist is easily one of the slightest, least substantial and least...”
– Wells! (via seanfennessey)
I rarely get worked up about anything, perhaps least of all opinions on film, a medium I feel distinctly undereducated about, but considering that Wells, in the same piece, praises Midnight in Paris’ “great script,” I really wanna shove a tube sock in...
The Documentarian →
AGGREGATING THE BEST DOCUMENTARY FILMS AND FREE VIDEO CONTENT
“This basic extension of empathy is one of the great barriers in understanding...”
– A Muscular Empathy - Ta-Nehisi Coates - The Atlantic
Perhaps misleading/strange out of context, but I couldn’t help it. Worth reading the whole bit.
December 2011
28 posts
“Discretion also governs another feature of the typically Wodehousean syntax –...”
– PG Wodehouse: a life in letters | Books | The Guardian
Who, but PG, would abbreviate “fiend in human shape”? Delightful.
“Clyde, discussing available free agents, with the line of the night:...”
– Preseason: Knicks 92, Nets 83 - Posting and Toasting
guessimdumb:
Glen Campbell - Guess I’m Dumb
I...
“When I’m stuck for a closing to a lyric, I will drag out my last resort:...”
– David Bowie Interview - Chameleon of Rock - Esquire
“Everyone wants an answer. I think it was Gertrude Stein who wrote, “There...”
– New Quotations From Harry Dean Stanton - Esquire
Some kinda mantra.
On John McPhee, Perfectionism and Fear
John McPhee, in an interview with The Paris Review:
I can’t stand a sentence until it sounds right, and I’ll go over it again and again. Once the sentence rolls along in a certain way, that’s sentence A. Sentence B may work out well, but then its effect on sentence A may spoil the rhythm of the two together. One of the long-term things about knitting a piece of writing together is making all...
“Put your best nine on the field, don’t burn out your pitchers, don’t...”
– Much Ado About Bobby Valentine
Jonah Keri, consistently excellent.
Man arrested at Large Hadron Collider claims he's... →
“He also claimed responsibility for the infamous baguette sabotage in November last year.”
November 2011
41 posts
Daily News Features Cover Story About... →
Good morning
J.R. Smith Fanfic
Email from a friend:
I can’t wait for the trade war, where China refuses to purchase American pulp and paperboard until Obama extradites J.R. Smith. At which point Obama holds firm, and the rides the nationalist “Free J.R.” movement to a second term, with David Stern replacing Biden as the hardscrabble VP. The NBA lockout - solving all of my problems.
Basketball’s...
On "Hemingway's Boat"
Arthur Phillips, NYT:
Superficially, the book can be summarized thus: Hemingway was not an absolute swine to absolutely everyone absolutely all of the time, but it was a close thing. Still, he suffered so much in his life that he should get credit for those occasions when he behaved decently. Also, he liked to fish, especially from his boat.
More.
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