September 2011
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“Too soon, too late, so many missed opportunities - you’ve got to recognize...”
– A Happy Man by Hansjörg Schertenleib
Sep 5th
June 2011
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“I can’t see how anybody who claims to love language can fail to marvel at the...”
– Michael Chabon, ‘The Phantom Tollbooth’ and the Wonder of Words.
Jun 30th
April 2011
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“If we only wanted to be happy it would be easy; but we want to be happier than...”
– a Montesquieu quote in Is Facebook making us sad?
Apr 11th
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September 2010
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Worry Isn't Work →
ampersandean: A Monday morning reminder from the HBR: Worry isn’t work. Being stressed out isn’t work. Anxiety isn’t work. Entertaining a sense of impending doom isn’t work. Incessant internal verbal punishment isn’t work. Indulging the great unknown fear in your own mind isn’t work. Hating yourself isn’t work. (via cubicle17)
Sep 11th
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August 2010
4 posts
Aug 27th
“Style is a simple way of saying complicated things.”
– ~Jean Cocteau (via theimpossiblecool)
Aug 25th
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“To function efficiently as a writer, 95% of your brain has to teleport off into...”
– Charlie Brooker from Forget those creative writing workshops. If you want to write, get threatened.
Aug 16th
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Aug 9th
June 2010
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Jun 24th
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Jun 14th
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The season finale of AMC’s brilliant Breaking Bad is tonight. The New Yorker recently had an article on La Familia Michoacana (subscribers only), a violent drug cartel that has captured parts of the state and the private sector in Mexico. The piece offers a fascinating look at the real world of drugs and violence that likely inspired the fictionalized turf across the border from Walter...
Jun 13th
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Jun 9th
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WatchWatch
Wild Nothing - Chinatown (by Jack Tatum)
Jun 8th
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Leap Before You Look
ampersandean: W. H. Auden, December 1940: The sense of danger must not disappear: The way is certainly both short and steep, However gradual it looks from here; Look if you like, but you will have to leap. Tough-minded men get mushy in their sleep And break the by-laws any fool can keep; It is not the convention but the fear That has a tendency to disappear. The worried efforts of the...
Jun 7th
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Jun 2nd
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December 2009
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“Therefore, the odds of being on [a] given departure which is the subject of a...”
– FiveThirtyEight: Politics Done Right: The Odds of Airborne Terror Maybe if Obama wasn’t so soft on lightning we could all sleep more soundly.
Dec 28th
May 2009
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“I think that surprise…whether it occurs in love, war, business, or what have...”
– Stanley Kubrick from Doctor’s Orders by Bilge Ebiri - Moving Image Source
May 26th
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A Disturbance in the Force
You feel a disturbance in the force…
Me: Why did you disturb the force for no reason?
David: ??
Me: On Adium when you start typing me a message the window opens and says, "You feel a disturbance in the force…"
David: As if a thousand keys typed out in horror, and were suddenly silenced.
May 10th
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May 4th
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April 2009
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Apr 30th
February 2009
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Feb 13th
January 2009
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All Politics Is The Wire
David: Blagoyavich = Clay Davis
Me: haha. that would mean Obama = Carcetti
David: shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit
Jan 27th
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ListenShugo Tokumaru - Green Rain (from Exit, available...
Jan 26th
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“The next real literary “rebels” in this country might well emerge as...”
– David Foster Wallace in “E Unibus Pluram:  Television and U.S. Fiction”  published in A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again.
Jan 13th
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