February 2010
5 posts
meghanagain:
The Internet is all, “let me start this term paper by defining a word and then telling you why that definition undermines your initial assumptions about what I’m writing about here.”
Then the Internet is all, “And in conclusion, as we have seen…”
“I leave Sisyphus at the foot of the mountain! One always finds one’s burden...”
– Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus (p. 91)
(via fuckyeahexistentialism)
Everything a writer could need →
bobulate:
George Bernard Shaw’s office, a hideout that allowed him privacy since, “People bother me,” Shaw confessed. “I came here to hide from them.”
He liked journeying forth to his office. It allowed his wife to tell callers he was “out”. This writing hut, sometimes referred to as a “summer house”, sometimes mistaken for a tool shed, took him a good minute or two to reach after he stepped...
January 2010
6 posts
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“When learning something new, many students will think, ‘Damn, this is hard for...”
– Aaron Hillegass’s Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X
Some things are just, well, hard.
(via viafrank) (via notational)
“He left home at twenty and moved up north to the highline. He got a job outside...”
– Maile Meloy, “Travis B.” (via heartbeatcity)
December 2009
28 posts
“That conversation with the taxi driver suddenly made clear to me the essence of...”
– Kundera, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting (via meaghano)
“A note to anybody who might be thinking about coming to my home at eight o’clock...”
– Michael Ian Black
“The worst thing you can do to anybody trying to be creative is to demand...”
– Chuck Klosterman (via marco)
A Women's Put This On
putthison:
Many more ladies read Put This On than we ever expected. (Hi ladies! Thanks for reading!) Some are shopping for their boyfriends and husbands, some for friends, some just like the pretty pictures. We welcome them all.
It seems, though, that our blog has whetted their appetite. We’ve been getting about two emails a week since we launched asking if there was a women’s equivalent,...
jenrobinson:
DJ Zebra - Get It On My Mind...
“App stores charge money for mobile ‘apps’ and nobody flinches because they’re...”
– What Would We Pay For In Today’s Web? (via marco)
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Cause, meet Effect
ILU Dave Holmes
myyearofeverything:
I’ve just finished the part of “The Unlikely Disciple” where author Kevin Roose reaches his limit of the rampant homophobia* at Liberty University, and I’m right there with him. While the general attitude toward gays seems to be “bemused pity,” some students just actively do not like gay people (never having met one, naturally). But statistically speaking,...
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“Looking back, I found any number of films in which some of the most celebrated...”
– Edward Cullen, stalker? Yes, but so is the hero of ‘The Graduate’ | EW.com
YES I CAN, OWEN GLEIBERMAN. I CAN THINK OF ROUGHLY ONE BILLION OTHERS. DO YOU KNOW WHY OKAY I’LL TELL YOU IT’S BECAUSE OF PARADIGMS, OWEN! GENDER, OWEN! SEX, OWEN! HERE LET ME REGISTER YOU FOR SOMETHING IT’S CALLED FEMINISM...
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Episode 2: Stephen Elliott
ijustgothere:
Episode 2 at Libsyn
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Whew! That was a faster turnaround time than the first ep, all right.
Tonight I talked to San-Francisco-based, Chicago-bred Stephen Elliott, author of The Adderall Diaries (one of the absolute best things I’ve read this year), in a very noisy bar. The podcast also includes his reading from tonight’s event.
He’s giving a talk on memoir...
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“South Africans have compared the worldwide fascination with Semenya’s gender to...”
– EITHER/OR
by Ariel Levy (via kadehenry)
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Dave Eggers' wonderful message on PRINT.
“Reports that no one reads anymore, especially young people, are greatly overstated and almost always factually lacking. I’ve written about youth readership elsewhere, but to reiterate: sales of young adult books are actually up. Total volume of all book sales is actually up. Kids get the same things out of books that they have before. Reading in elementary schools and middle schools is no...
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November 2009
68 posts
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fuckyeahtheymightbegiants:
At four of two I was staring into space I had to move there were things I had to do I wasn’t really doing anything I was standing around And I looked at the clock And the clock said four of two I was late My appointment was at two With a beautiful girl I had met the night before I would tell her I was in love with her But I still hadn’t moved And I looked at the...
That's Amore
neoncocoon:
Excerpt from When You Are Engulfed In Flames- David Sedaris
Before moving to New York I spent six years in Chicago. During most time, I lived with my then boyfriend and, in between the two of us, we seemed to know a fair number of people. There were wild dinners, wild parties - always something fun and druggy going on. Never again would I have so many friends, and such good ones,...
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“There’s certain days that remind me why I ran for this office. Then there are...”
– President Obama (via jaredgeller)
“We all spend so much time not saying what we want, because we know we can’t have...”
– Nick Hornby, A Long Way Down (via kavalierandclay)
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