March 2010
12 posts
“Cormac McCarthy? “Horrible,” he says, looking at Blood Meridian....”
– Nicholas Sparks, via USA Today
“Writers who are blessed with inborn talent can write easily, no matter what they...”
– Haruki Murakami, from the New Yorker, 6/9/08
“It’s your legacy and you can’t accept the fact that this is the end...”
– A Reddit post: what you should do if you’re the last person on Earth.
“He couldn’t stop consuming; it was almost as if his size was a metaphor...”
– From a parody of Ian McEwan’s new climate-change book.
Why You Should Pay for Music
— That relationship isn’t getting over itself. Grab the new Pink album during your Ben & Jerry’s run.
— You’re spending money on trivial stuff already. Does your puppy need an electric blue windbreaker or an organic birthday cake?
— Do you have a nice sound setup, a new pair of noise-canceling headphones, or an iPhone 3GS? And you use them to listen to...
Okay the video won’t embed. That’s not stopping me from posting about the awesomeness of this album. Review soon.
Animal Detectives!
fuckingbookdeal:
what a great tumblr
February 2010
16 posts
2 tags
Didn’t play this album until a few weeks after I bought it.* Now, though, it shows up at random times.
While pouring milk into a cereal bowl I’ll think of “The Mystery Zone,” its echoing guitars and themes of danger. Later, I walk back to my desk after lunch with coworkers while whistling “Nobody Gets Me But You.” Then “Who Makes Your Money” and...
“Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be...”
– Steve Jobs
Shutter Island
You have a better chance of enjoying this movie if you avoid any media on it. My brother and I avoided trailers and reviews and we loved it.
Shot well, manages to create dread without cheesing out. Solid performances from the supporters (Williams, Ruffalo, Kingsley, von Sydow), but I always struggle to take DiCaprio seriously. He was all right.
You’ll hear complaints about the...
“He told us: most people provide examples of people or events when they define...”
– “Fit is not an Example,” from Aqufit
“I WANT THE OLD FAFEBOOK BACK THIS SHIT IS WACK!!!!!”
– Commenter on this ReadWriteWeb article about Facebook’s login . A number of people apparently searched for “Facebook login” on Google, found this article, and were confused about how to log into Facebook.
Another example of how we need to simplify the computing experience.
December 2009
1 post
“Oh no. Love of my life, please don’t cry. I don’t mean to scare you....”
– A Pragmatic Romantic Says Farewell To His Lover, from McSweeney’s
October 2009
15 posts
“Believe me, every heart has its secret sorrows, which the world knows not; and...”
– Henry W. Longfellow (via MeFi, used in the context of a woman’s guide for men on approaching women without ‘getting maced’)
A recent poll discovered an unsettling trend emerging for the first time. American families whose household income is $75,000 or less now have zero dollars of discretionary income. According to Luker, that means about 75 percent of the country can never responsibly afford to go to a live professional sporting event. Franchises want them to be fans, to buy the gear and pull for their teams and...
“I believe firmly in the need for the FCC to preserve Internet openness, whether a person accesses the Internet from a desktop computer or a wireless laptop or netbook,” Mr. Genachowski said.
(great news for Net Neutrality supporters; more on the future of wireless networks at the WSJ)
(side note: back to non-news stuff tomorrow!)
Health Care Reform Is a Woman’s Issue
Last week Michelle Obama gave a powerful speech explaining why health insurance reform was a woman’s issue. Her arguments were subsequently dramatized by a telling exchange between Senator John Kyl, a Republican from Arizona, and Senator Debbie Stabenow, a Democrat from Michigan, last Friday in a Senate Finance Committee meeting.
Senator Kyl articulated the view that the federal government...
September 2009
1 post
