February 2012
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“For some, the typewriter can be about yearning for a simpler time, a younger...”
– A Type of Nostalgia - Advice - The Chronicle of Higher Education (via ayjay)
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“The hint half guessed, the gift half understood, is Incarnation”
– T. S. Eliot: Four Quartets, “The Dry Salvages” (via triadic)
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“So I said to myself that people are consumed by boredom. Naturally, one has to...”
– The Diary of a Country Priest, Georges Bernanos
“Being a broken man himself, Greene knew how to probe the pain and romance of...”
– My hero: Graham Greene | Books | The Guardian (via ayjay)
“There’s a joke in psychiatry: If you talk to God, it’s called praying; if God...”
– “The Jerusalem Syndrome” (which also uses the phrase “shoot laser beams of transcendence”)
“Jerusalem is an insane place in some ways. It overwhelms people, and it has for...”
– “The Jerusalem Syndrome”
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“A good churchman is always up in everybody’s shit.”
– Deacon in Season Four of The Wire
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Calling Your Girlfriend | The Hairpin →
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“No matter what anyone says, Aerosmith and [the movie] Armageddon were the ones...”
– Tomonobu Itagaki’s completely unexpected tactic for dealing with depression (Wired)
“We live in a time when many religious people feel fiercely threatened by...”
– Marilynne Robinson (via ayjay)
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NUKEMAP →
[via Barclay]
WHAT KIND OF AMERICAN ENGLISH DO YOU SPEAK? →
my results:
70% General American English 15% Yankee 10% Upper Midwestern 5% Dixie (Much to my friends’ chagrin, I like the word y’all and think it very useful.) 0% Midwestern
WatchNowness:
Fashion photographer and filmmaker Jacob Sutton swaps the studio for the slopes of Tignes in the Rhône-Alpes region of south-eastern France, with a luminous after hours short starring Artec pro snowboarder William Hughes. The electrifying film sees Hughes light up the snow-covered French hills in a bespoke L.E.D.-enveloped suit courtesy of designer and electronics whizz John Spatcher....
“In education, if in nothing else, the Scotsman knows what is best for him....”
– Prince Phillip, when he was made Chancellor of Edinburgh University in November 1953.
[Ninety gaffes in ninety years]
“Of course, my belief is that sex education should be done as early as possible...”
– PEG, from a slightly longer comment on Jezebel and a pretty absurd American Life League video.
(Before watching the video, I thought ”Vagina Macaroons” was some sort of teenage Parisian slang.)
Whitney Houston–Robyn Mash-Up →
Really, really good…..
[via RM]
“I don’t know what I think of that. Because I think, actually, one of the things...”
– Ira Glass, in response to Kurt Braunohler’s comment, “I do have a theory now. I do have a theory about if I do get married in the future. What I think I would want to do is have an agreement that at the end of seven years, we have to get remarried in order for the marriage to continue. But at the...
Swedish Lesson #5
ckck:
Alla hjärtans dag [al:a j’är_t:ans da:g]
Swedes go against the grain (even against our linguistic relatives Norway and Denmark) on February 14th and call Valentine’s Day Alla hjärtans dag, which translates to All Hearts Day.
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“Her humour was mischievous: the lavatory seat in her Cracow flat was made of...”
– from The Economist’s obituary for Wislawa Szymborska
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“Yes, Yao and his cohort of gawky, jump-shooting countrymen had already played in...”
– Jay Caspian Kang on Jeremy Lin over at Grantland
[via PJY]
“While Romney’s victory speeches are polished tedium, Santorum’s sound like...”
– Santorum, the ‘coulda, shoulda, woulda’ candidate - Tim Stanley at CNN.com (via mwfrost)
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“The layman’s interpretation is easily captured by the definition of the...”
– Marie-Laure Ryan in “Fiction, Cognition, and Non-Verbal Media”
So, if we answer the questions about fiction, can we make literary theorists go away? Pretty Please?
The Virgin Father →
The weirdest story I’ve read in quite some time.
(Also creepy and somehow sad)
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“Turning twenty-four was no minor disappointment. At twenty-one, Edward Van Halen...”
– Sergio De La Pava in A Naked Singularity
St. Vincent - Cheerleader
disconaivete:
No actual cheerleading in the video for St. Vincent’s Cheerleader, but Annie Clark being exposed as a piece in a gallery. Directed by Hiro Murai, inspired by Ron Mueck. (via)
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