March 2012
8 posts
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Getting outside
From an interview at BOMBLOG with the author of Atta, Jarett Kobek:
…what is strange about ATTA is that, although I call it a psychedelic biography, it’s well within the tradition of literary fiction, and most recent literary fiction has distanced itself from the wider world. There’s a disengagement with bigger topics on the part of young writers. The model is very small books about very...
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“Finally, there was no torture, no rape in the shower. Just the good ol’...”
– www.danwei.org/crime/a_foreigners_life_in_a_beijing.php
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October 2011
8 posts
WatchNice job.
Soundtracking the Waves of the Sun and Your Brain
{Interview - Sonification (by Robert Alexander)}
September 2011
3 posts
Shrill shirt ballooning
To Brooklyn Bridge
How many dawns, chill from his rippling rest
The seagull’s wings shall dip and pivot him,
Shedding white rings of tumult, building high
Over the chained bay waters Liberty—
Then, with inviolate curve, forsake our eyes
As apparitional as sails that cross
Some page of figures to be filed away;
—Till elevators drop us from our day …
I think of...
“Sometimes it seems that the government has learned more from our social movement...”
– Climate Politics and the English Language | Motherboard
August 2011
1 post
July 2011
2 posts
“Announcement
Try Willie’s Italian Special, The Godfather, or the Veggie...”
– Graham Avenue Meats and Deli - Williamsburg - North Side - Brooklyn, NY
big up
June 2011
5 posts
WatchSay it
“The hope of fulfilling the demands of individual self-assertion and community...”
– Zygmunt Bauman, The Hedgehog Review
“What all media, all representations—from street signs to photographs to...”
– “On the Politics of Pastiche and Depthless Intensities: The Case of Barack Obama,” The Hedgehog Review
“(Just imagine if Tom had also schooled them in the networking opportunities of...”
– David Carr: Media Companies Cash In, at Cost of Unpaid Contributors
May 2011
10 posts
“Trying to love all of humanity may be a worthy endeavor, but, in a funny way, it...”
– Franzen: Technology Provides an Alternative to Love
“You will believe that this understanding has not been with out it’s misgivings;...”
– Robert Oppenheimer, in a letter to one of his high school teachers, following the dropping of the first atomic bomb over Hiroshima
“McDonald’s restaurants in Europe will soon be swapping the chain’s...”
– McDonald’s to Replace Cashiers with Touch Screen Computers
“Although some vendors were given vague explanations for the jasmine freeze —...”
– Jasmine Becomes Contraband in China (NYT)
“The controversy was one more step in the trends we have seen operating since the...”
– A Historian Looks ‘Back’ at the Climate Fight (NYT)
“Furman, 56, is nicknamed “Mr. Versatility” because of his ability to...”
– Man Sets World Record For ‘Most World Records’
February 2011
1 post
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January 2010
3 posts
November 2009
5 posts
The Devil is in the Retail
smartercities:
impossiblog:
The privatization of public space, and what to do about it.
‘The city has become a visually-branded backdrop to retail in which life is not lived but product is consumed. The Venezuelan architect Alfredo Brillembourg, who has been responsible for a number of innovative interventions in the Caracas favelas, eloquently addresses the problem as the need to “move from...
Dear NASA, Are we gonna die?
fiatluxemburg:
msmandrake:
Question (Q): Are there any threats to the Earth in 2012? Many Internet websites say the world will end in December 2012. Answer (A): Nothing bad will happen to the Earth in 2012.
[NASA via MR]
I want to work for the division of NASA that answers these tough questions so much.
They think we’ll have more time?
Shan Wan in Nanjing
I’m part of a new trend.
Li’s “meet and split” idea has proved so attractive because it is an “all fun, no obligation” arrangement.
Thousands of young Chinese have joined online shan wan forums.
Shan wan groups are usually made up of two to six people, called shan you. They go Dutch on their outings, which pack in activities like sightseeing, eating, singing karaoke and shopping. The...
October 2009
5 posts
What word I am thinking of
Trying desperately to remember a word, a simple word, especially, and especially one that is everywhere evident around you — that once involved sheer thinking, like the kind you used to break out of an underwater safe. The Internet changes things. I couldn’t remember the word ‘terror’ somehow, so I turned to Google. It is a very appreciated site, but how really terrifying...
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Masons' Hands
something was on the news hour about the Masons — about to be America’s new fave obsession, thank you Dan Brown — and my dad mentioned his great grandfather was a mason and i looked him up, and found his brother, who carved horses on Coney Island. There’s a little bio about him on a google books, and, well, you’ve really got to hand it to google.
