January 2012
71 posts
December 2011
84 posts
“I see what I believe.”
– Theodore Roethke (via magnificentruin)
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Guest List: Best of 2011 | Features | Pitchfork →
st. vincent as metal show, an almost plushy convention, AND philip larkin? damn you, carrie brownstein!
(scroll down to her section. it’s worth it.)
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my father on the history of plum pudding, and his...
i have just received an email from my father as a follow-up to a conversation we had in our christmas day phone call.
One of the things I did was to google “plum pudding” (once upon a time, it may have had plums, but really all that’s called for is fruit…dried in the old days) and a bunch of spices…and the recipe (if there ever was “a” recipe in the...
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Is 27 really a dangerous age for famous musicians? →
there’s a short answer to this, but do you really want me to tell you?
WHAT YOUR WEEK HAS IN STORE: Christmas Gifts →
yourweek:
This Christmas you’ll receive some curious gifts, such as: a piece of the moon, a lifetime supply of magnanimity and six kinds of rock stars each neatly wrapped in nice brown paper packaging. Who would give you such presents you’ll wonder and look around the room at the various oblivious family…
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The Second Coming
Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity.
Surely some revelation is at hand; Surely the Second Coming is at...
Mysterious 'Space Ball' Crashes in Namibia →
though it’s not really that “mysterious” after all, it makes me look forward to my august trip even more.
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“We know what we are, but not what we may be.”
– Hamlet
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Dowling Duncan redesign the US bank notes →
both stunning and thought-provoking. i like the portrait/vertical alignment!
Want to Remember Everything You'll Ever Learn?... →
SuperMemo was like a genie that granted Wozniak a wish: unprecedented power to remember. But the value of what he remembered depended crucially on what he studied, and what he studied depended on his goals, and the selection of his goals rested upon the efficient acquisition of knowledge, in a regressive function that propelled him relentlessly along the path he had chosen. The guarantee that he...
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John Alspach and His Shiny Robot | MPLS.TV →
sometimes, instead of simply reblogging things made by others, i make things… like the words in the above project! (the ridiculously great ben lafond is responsible for all images.)
the first installment of mpls.tv’s new series all this is ours* went live yesterday, and i couldn’t be more pleased. stay tuned for more portraits created by ben and i as we make snake through the...
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A Valediction Forbidding Mourning
My swirling wants. Your frozen lips. The grammar turned and attacked me. Themes, written under duress. Emptiness of the notations.
They gave me a drug that slowed the healing of wounds.
I want you to see this before I leave: the experience of repetition as death the failure of criticism to locate the pain the poster in the bus that said: my bleeding is under control.
A red plant in a...
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“I don’t care how rich you are, I’m not coming to your party.”
– words never uttered by Christopher Hitchens
Kola Superdeep Borehole →
liquidchroma:
Excellence of make big hole, comrades.
[it has its own stamp and everything]
though it’s still great, it was even better before i realized that it doesn’t actually say “koala superdeep borehole.”
“My husband asked me what I wanted for Christmas. I gave him a list of practical...”
– A Telescope for Christmas? - Social Q’s - NYTimes.com
there’s something wrong with her.