April 2010
13 posts
“I first wrote a popular short free ebook about this seven years ago and the...”
– Seth Godin, in a moment of stunning narcissism and historical blindness. I’ve thought this before, reading Dickens on poverty—Alcott on gender—Douglass on racism—but not particularly when reading Seth Godin on marketing. “I wrote about this seven years ago…the...
Apr 28th
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“No homo tweaks this dynamic because it allows, implicitly, that rap is a place...”
– Jonah Weiner, in Slate (via skitch)
Apr 23rd
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"EXPERIENCE THINGS!"
Matthew Weiner: When I look at digital, the dark side of it for me is the physicality that’s being presented alongside the Internet. I think about that movie The Matrix, and about these bodies that are human batteries that support computers. I met this guy who was creating software where you could watch Mad Men and you could chat with your friend while you’re watching it, and...
Apr 23rd
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“In the past, when something fell out of the sky, or there were collisions, men...”
– Miranda Mellis, The Revisionist (via Wekwom Texos)
Apr 23rd
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Apr 22nd
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The Wild Party, by Joseph Moncure March: Books? Books? My god! You don’t understand. They were far too busy living first-hand For books. Books!
Apr 16th
“Palin, unlike some of her rivals who feel some kind of lingering need to relate...”
– Andrew Sullivan Recently, I was reminded via Wordpress-comment-notification that my old site—or rather a post I wrote for it some time ago—is (bizarrely) Google-optimized for the rhetoric & composition term Engfish, thanks to this bit I wrote on Sarah Palin. I re-read it, and you...
Apr 16th
Song
Seamus Heaney: A rowan like a lipsticked girl. Between the by-road and the main road Alder trees at a wet and dripping distance Stand off among the rushes. There are the mud-flowers of dialect And the immortelles of perfect pitch And that moment when the bird sings very close To the music of what happens. (in Opened Ground)
Apr 14th
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Apr 5th
Apr 5th
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“When the sun went down and it was time for us to leave, the tormented little man...”
– Faith Ringgold’s “The Sunflowers Quilting Bee at Arles” (The French Collection, Part I: #4)
Apr 5th
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