February 2012
5 posts
“A sense of fraudulence, of falling short of authenticity, is endemic to...”
– Jon Baskin on David Foster Wallace
“As for the rise of the novel, of literary realism, this, I learned, was linked...”
– Avi Steinberg, “Checking Out”
“I do not believe in immortality, and have no desire for it. The belief in it...”
– H.L. Mencken (via Letters of Note)
January 2012
4 posts
“One of the real dilemmas we have in our country and around the world is that...”
– Bill Clinton, interviewed in Esquire (via kottke)
“Death and disaster are at our shoulders every second of our lives, trying to get...”
– Hugh Laurie (via setyourcompass)
“I deplore the artistic and critical cast of mind that repudiates the whole...”
– John Barth
December 2011
4 posts
“Youth is never reactionary; youth is progressive in time and hence always in the...”
– The Adventures of Mao on the Long March, Frederic Tuten (1971) (via thenewinquiry)
November 2011
3 posts
“Knowing English is a matter of controlling a system within which words can be...”
– Geoffrey Pullum - “Permalinks, Ensparbulaion, Etc.”
October 2011
4 posts
“Be undeniably good. When people ask me how do you make it in show business or...”
– Steve Martin (via petervidani)
God bless you Steve Martin
(via laikaaon)
The Aporeticus: Jellyfish at Sea →
mills:
Everyone in the city has been torn apart. I gingerly step around torsos dragging their viscera along the sidewalks. The women in the financial district, in blouses more beautiful than the finest fabrics available to queens a century ago, look like jellyfish: stringy red and black tendrils of intestine slither after colorful caps. They move at half the speed of the men in their midst, for...
September 2011
1 post
aoyaoia
dictionaryofobscuresorrows:
n. a musical flavor found in electric guitar solos that compels you to snarl, squint and bend your spine like a longbow being drawn back to fire a warning shot to your distant ancestors, so they may know that your domestication will not go unavenged.
August 2011
2 posts
3 tags
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July 2011
10 posts
“This continuous modification of man by his own technology stimulates him to find...”
– Marshall McLuhan in a March 1968 Playboy interview, quoted by Mark Larson. Do bees resent flowers? Do they bemoan the ubiquity of beckoning floral distractions? (via mills)
June 2011
7 posts
“Hold on, you’re losing me. Is Dreamweaver a book or something?”
– (via clientsfromhell)
This isn’t a client from hell. This is a web designer from hell. Your client shouldn’t have to know anything about the software you use, not even the name of it. And anyway, Dreamweaver is shit. Get a new profession.
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“In studying a philosopher, the right attitude is neither reverence nor contempt,...”
– Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy
“I invented nothing new. I simply assembled the discoveries of other men behind...”
– Henry Ford (via kottke)
“You remember we used to go down to Bloy’s to try and pick up girls?...”
– Cormac McCarthy, Cities of the Plain
May 2011
8 posts
“You take now,” he said, “one man puts in one bolt and another man puts in...”
– Flannery O’Connor, “The Life You Save May Be Your Own”
“He hated the humiliating comedy of heartache. But can thought wake you from the...”
– Saul Bellow, Herzog (via mills)
“Well, of course, all life affirmations are grounded in willing self-delusion,...”
– Robert Coover, Briar Rose
April 2011
7 posts
Announcing...
tatunes:
The Tatunes Music Festival is the brainchild of Matthew David Brozik and Jacob Sager Weinstein, authors of The Government Manual for New Superheroes, The Government Manual for New Wizards, and The Government Manual for New Pirates. Matthew and Lauren Krueger made the poster.
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“But sitting here beside this girl as unknown to him now as outer space, waiting...”
– David Foster Wallace, The Pale King (from the “Good People” excerpt)