February 2010
22 posts
ipomoea:
Aislinn on the Black Eyed Peas’ dancers: weird clitoris outfits.
My grandma on Beyonce’s dancers: “They look like dumb dodos.”
January 2010
28 posts
THE CHAI HOUSE IS CLOSING RYAN IT'S THE END OF THE WORLD I'M MOVING TO CALIFORNIA
sometimesagreatnotion:
Pluto - Clare & The...
“For she stood tall, lithe, of grace inborn, her dark waving hair high piled and...”
– Gene Stratton Porter’s A Girl of the Limberlost
SPOILER ALERT. That’s Edith, all dressed for her engagement ball in the dress Phillip suggested. But then he spots an Imperialis Regalis during the ball, and it’s the last one Elnora needs, so he catches it and Edith throws a fit and...
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Just hope
bobulate:
…letters and, at a larger scale, language give form. We use them to be explicit, and at the next turn, to soften concepts.
We try to be just; we do have hope, and therefore, just and hope, as vocabulary terms, crop up in our nomenclature more often than you might realize.
On just
It’s just a prototype. It’s just a first draft. I just put it together quickly. I’m just sitting...
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“[I] could use
A handful of wheel
And a day off
And a bruised road”
– wilco, of course.
(Which is to say: thank the everloving skies it’s Friday and my car is fixed.)
point/counterpoint
High Fidelity:
…I agreed that what really matters is what you like, not what you are like… Books, records, films - these things matter.
Klosterman (via Slog):
It never matters what you like; what matters is why you like it.
Also related.
“It’s as though, because I’m a woman, if I don’t apologize for...”
– danah boyd in “whose voice do you hear? gender issues and success,” a response to Clay Shirky &c.
previously. I love the conversation that’s happening here; it’s heartening to me as I try to sort some of this out for myself.
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http://www.navigatingcancer.com/ →
Yo. I’ve been lucky—despite getting pretty friendly with some ultrasounds, a couple of biopsies, and a lumpectomy, it’s all been reassuringly benign. Annoying, but fine.
If it were ever not fine, I’d probably want something like this to get all control-freaky on. My friend (and 826 volunteer/softballer extraordinaire) Marika is working with them on building the community of...
“To put yourself forward as someone good enough to do interesting things is, by...”
– Clay Shirky, in the slightly-misleadingly-titled A Rant About Women
Mad Men, you're cracking me up.
Riding-school guy: You're so profoundly sad.
January Jones: No, it's just—my people are Nordic.
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forget the gods; read the rest
Walcott:
“I never read it,” I said. “Not all the way through.” The lift of the
arching eyebrows paralyzed me like the Medusa’s shield, and I turned cold the moment I had said it. “Those gods with hyphens, like the Hollywood producers,”
I heard my mouth babbling as ice glazed over my chest. “The gods and the demi-gods aren’t much use to...
poetry as tonic, #17
psychotherapy:
Lines for Winter
Tell yourself as it gets cold and gray falls from the air that you will go on walking, hearing the same tune no matter where you find yourself— inside the dome of dark or under the cracking white of the moon’s gaze in a valley of snow. Tonight as it gets cold tell yourself what you know which is nothing but the tune your bones play as you keep going....
Happy Birthday, Dad.
Q:
Do you have a pen?
Does someone have a sharper knife?
Daddy, can you get this splinter out?
Ummm, do you have a band-aid?
Do we have to talk about it?
Is your stapler on your desk?
Um, do you have another band-aid?
Do we have to have this conversation right now?
I forgot my keys. Do you have yours?
Oh wait! Does anyone have change?
Can I use some of that twine?
A, invariably:...
Your poster has this one covered.
[via bobulate: via]
You know what? I feel the need to quote this because it is not simply a misuse of affect/effect, but a rare misuse. Which is, like, an accomplishment. Or something.
Actions speak louder than words. Businesses must act. Once the door to social consciousness is opened, bring the spirit of your company through it to affect change.
“The “open” paradigm rests on the assumption that the way to get...”
– Jaron Lanier at the WSJ
http://www.curioconfections.com/ →
I really wanted to be unimpressed by this place, since three or four of my friends have been energetically hyping it for months. Surely, I thought, it can’t be that special. Also I was suspicious that their enthusiasm might be based on their sweet tooths (teeth?) and/or crushes on the proprietor.
But you know what? I am utterly charmed. The tables are sturdy, the space is lovely, the music...
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“‘Wouldn’t it be fun if all the castles in the air which we make...”
– Little Women.
sent looking for this by Twyla Tharp:
But better an imperfect dome in Florence than cathedrals in the clouds.
Watchglueslabs:
Raymond Brigg’s The Snowman
Wikipedia:
The Snowman is a children’s book by English author Raymond Briggs, published in 1978. In 1982, this book was turned into a 26-minute animated movie by Dianne Jackson for the fledgling Channel 4. It was first shown on Channel 4 late on Christmas Eve in 1982 and was an immediate success. The film was nominated for the Academy Award for Animated...