April 2012
47 posts
Apr 30th
“Talking about dreams is like talking about movies, since the cinema uses the...”
– Federico Fellini, quoted in Rolling Stone no. 421 (1984)
Apr 27th
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“In ‘The Waste Land’, I wasn’t even bothering whether I understood what I was...”
– T. S. Eliot, Paris Review interview (1959)
Apr 27th
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the frozen sea: The trouble with tobacco haters →
inwhichidigress: A letter from David Hockney to the Guardian: Why doesn’t Mr Chapman debate with a good and satisfied customer of the tobacco companies (Plain packs will make smoking history, 25 January)? Someone who has seen what will replace it as a smoothing, calming contemplative helper. Someone…
Apr 27th
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Apr 26th
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“As for Nietzsche himself, the one firm faith of his life was his belief in his...”
– H. L. Mencken, ‘The Mailed Fist and the Prophet’, The Atlantic (1914)
Apr 26th
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Apr 22nd
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Apr 22nd
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[One hundred years ago] racism was not some backward-loking reactionary ideology; the scientifically uneducated embraced it as enthusiastically as people today accept the theory of man-made global warming. - Niall Ferguson
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“Indeed, it’s completely obvious that absent the Christian faith, there would be...”
– Ross (via pegobry)
Apr 21st
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Apr 21st
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What if rock & roll music could, metaphorically speaking, somehow undergird the construction of an entire city? Awesome, right? — Matt Frost (@mattfrost) April 20, 2012
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Apr 19th
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Twitter / @yokoono: Let's congratulate ourselv ... →
Let’s congratulate ourselves for standing at the threshold of an incredible, magical future that we we alone, created.
Apr 16th
you’re the only you i have.
Apr 16th
Apr 16th
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brandnewswastikas: He was born in an Apple Store.
Apr 16th
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Apr 15th
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Apr 12th
“A writer who attempts in the nineteenth century to rehabilitate the ancient...”
– The Guardian’s review of Stoker’s Dracula, 1897 (via ayjay)
Apr 12th
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Apr 9th
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Apr 7th
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Apr 6th
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Apr 6th
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Apr 5th
“… we live in an urban-industrial civilization but at the same time pretend to...”
– The Trouble with Wilderness; or, Getting Back to the Wrong Nature by William Cronon (via mirbeau)
Apr 5th
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Apr 5th
“People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion,...”
– Adam Smith
Apr 5th
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Apr 3rd
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“In 1984, American breadwinners who were sixty-five and over made ten times as...”
– Print - The War Against Youth - Esquire (via ayjay)
Apr 3rd
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Twitter / @paulmasonnews: "Art is the most... →
“Art is the most powerful currency in the world” - Damien Hirst. But what is its exchange rate?
Apr 2nd
The Atlantic: explore-blog: “[O]ne of its first... →
explore-blog: “[O]ne of its first written appearances came in 1883, in the American magazine, which referred to “the social ‘dude’ who affects English dress and the English drawl”. The teenage American republic was already a growing power, with the economy booming and the conquest of the West… DUDE
Apr 2nd
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N.Y. Preschool Starts DNA Testing For Admission →
WHAT THE FUCK
Apr 2nd
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Apr 2nd
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“Researchers at Wellesley College and the University of Kansas investigated...”
– How Big Cities Can Lead to Small Thoughts (via ayjay) After psychologists, I guess now sociologists have gotten into the “Draw inferences about the entire world from the behavior of undergrads” game. (via pegobry)
Apr 1st
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“The French live with this national contradiction—enjoying the wealth and jobs...”
– The French election: An inconvenient truth | The Economist (via atestu)
Apr 1st
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