February 2012
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Feb. 9, 2012
I’ve ghostwritten a personal ad for you to give to your Valentine or potential Valentine: “I’m looking for a free yet disciplined spirit I can roll down hills with on sunny days and solve thorny puzzles with when the skies are cloudy. Can you see the absurd in the serious and the serious in the absurd? Are you a curious chameleon always working to sharpen your communication...
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“Proposition 8 serves no purpose, and has no effect, other than to lessen the...”
– Judge Stephen Reinhardt, in a federal appellate court’s majority opinion overturning the notorious California anti-gay marriage law. (via motherjones)
Watchbestrooftalkever:
What’s Downton Abbey? Basically it’s about a bunch of honkeys that live in a church— or maybe it’s a museum. Either way, they don’t got wifi.
This one’s for George.
Watch out for the chicken lady.
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Komen's Choice
The women’s-health movement, which began in the nineteen-seventies, tried to explain that women’s bodies are not parts, but bodies, and that health care for women must, at a minimum, meet the standards of health care for men. This week’s dissolution of a bond between the nation’s largest funder of breast-cancer research and one of the largest providers of women’s health services suggests just...
On the Meaning of Life →
There is in every living creature an obscure but powerful impulse to active functioning. Life demands to be lived. … But I became a writer all the same, and shall remain one until the end of the chapter, just as a cow goes on giving milk all her life, even though what appears to be her self-interest urges her to give gin. … What the meaning of human life may be I don’t know: I incline...
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WatchThat voice.
January 2012
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“Travel is so rewarding that it should take precedence over other things younger...”
– “Advice on Finishing With No Regrets” (via musingsinfemininity)
“‘America’s Most Hated Family’ is a bit of a misnomer, since it gives too much...”
– Monica Hesse, reviewing the BBC documentary on the Westboro Baptist Church. (via washingtonpoststyle)
“I really do think that it is the great tragedy of American politics that this...”
– Jill Lepore on Fresh Air
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Indeed
Elevator, maintenance guy with a ladder, thin boxes.
Me: Changing lightbulbs?
Man: Lighting up people's lives is how I like to think of it.
“Fact: Thinking about going to the gym burns between 0 and 0 calories.”
– Rule 25 of the 27 rules of conquering the gym (WSJ). Tomorrow: Must force myself to do more than just think about going running. (via saragregory)
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December 2011
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Working from home
Traci: If you need me, let me know. Mom's too antsy for me to feel comfortable to leave her alone.
Me: But who am I going to play with?
Traci: Oh honey - just come here. Pain pills and champagne galore
Me: Now that sounds like a good time.
Traci: Well, it does take the edge off.
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“The Chinese capital has been propelled through history by the power of creative...”
– Evan Osnos, City of Dreams
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Listen
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WatchMy friend Joe, the most adventurous eater I know, decided to meet his neighbors. Xie xie for the story.
HAUSDORFF SPACES, Bim Ramke
It was like being inside a parachute
after landing—assuming survival—
the collapsing textures with light
shining through and the rotating
earth beneath you benign again.
He said. He had been loved.
A separation axiom, he said, has nothing
to do with love. Metrization, o love,
turns distance into desire, space into
place without distance. She is there
I am here but there, he explained,
...
Brian Williams interviews Marcel the Shell on Rock... →
somuchfunithurts:
(via videogum)
Cannot wait.
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“Humans are believing animals. Perhaps that’s even a way of defining our species:...”
– From Marcelo Gleiser’s 13.7 post “To Be Human Is To Believe” (via npr)
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