December 2009
Secret History: Interview with Black Tambourine →
via Mike Schulman’s facebook, no joke. ha. (but i’m laughing)
merry christmas, baby.
Reid stumbles over health care vote (video, ha) →
Health Care Reform Passes, 60-39.
the animals are in cages
Highlights from Q&A with Jenny Holzer in NY Times...
9. Fitness Routine: Righting myself when I trip.
29. Artwork She Covets: An all-black Ad Reinhardt would match my heart.
31. Favorite Line of the Moment: “The future is stupid.”
“Talking about stories, Samuel Beckett once said ‘The sun rose, having no...”
– Leonard Michaels, The Essays of Leonard Michaels. Quotes within (quotes).
“A cage went in search of a bird.”
– In any case, whatever the idea is, Kafka suggests in eight words a kind of nightmare — chilling, magnificently irrational, endless — the story-of-stories, the infinitely deep urge toward transformation. ‘One portion of being is the Prolific, the other, the Devouring,’ says...
“That’s your direction they said, pointing toward more nothingness, keep going...”
“In 1993, the Weekly World News reported on a woman from Texas, a “Lone...”
– Notes on Being Born on Soil, from here. Nice piece, a good read.
Turmeric Roasted Chickpeas →
on my food blog.
Watchflannel-wearing, college-boy, scruff-grunge alt-rock. i don’t care what my mudda says. i love it.
Stephen King pays to have troops come home for the... →
Choice quote: “Steve is such a numbers person,” said Julie Eugley, one of the author’s personal assistants. “When we were approached for $13,000, he thought that number was a little unlucky. He didn’t want any bad whammies associated with these troops.” So instead the Kings donated $12,999 and Eugley chipped in the $1 to complete the request.
“Peter Ward, a paleontologist at the University of Washington who specializes in...”
– The Killer Earth, the Times Ninth Annual Year in Ideas.
“I called him the Glorious Bird. I had long since forgotten why until I reread...”
– Gore Vidal on Tennessee Williams, 26 March 1985
they stayed in the whole winter, surviving off cans of soup. very eventually they became pale, turned moth-like, grew bones spaced wide and delicate. crouched over white candle flames, the light came up into the dark slopes of their new limbs and fanned outward. oh, wings.
An Almost Complete Archive of Calvin & Hobbes... →
huzzah, huzzah
i don't like buying flowers for people that i'm...
when they die, it always seems too metaphorical.
Animal Instincts, Model Citizens
Palin's Op-Ed Annotated →
obvious, worthwhile, and so on so on
Pittsburgh Mystery Letters Revealed as Art Project →