February 2010
67 posts
January 2010
45 posts
Bus Etiquette
1. Staring is always creepy. I understand that sitting in a small space with a crowded group of people cramped together for a lengthy amount of time leaves very little variety in the environment for your eyes to wander. Glimpsing, glancing, looking, peeking, observing, and inspecting: all suitable and generally not creepy (depending on whereabouts this peeking is happening, I suppose). But...
15 Things Kurt Vonnegut Said Better Than Anyone...
1. “I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, ‘If this isn’t nice, I don’t know what is.’”
2. “Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.”
3. “Tiger got to hunt, bird got to fly; Man got to sit and wonder, ‘Why, why, why?’ Tiger got to sleep, bird got to land; Man...
“…conceals the kick of a perfume bottle converted into a Molotov cocktail.”
-Time Magazine on The Edible Woman by Margaret Atwood, circa 1969
MY BODY’S A ZOMBIE FOR YOU by Dead...
E.E. Cummings, "may my heart always be open"
may my mind stroll about hungry and fearless and thirsty and supple and even if it’s sunday may i be wrong for whenever men are right they are not young and may myself do nothing usefully and love yourself so more than truly there’s never been quite such a fool who could fail pulling all the sky over him with one smile
Rabbit Habits by Man Man
…You’re an elegant...
Conversation
“Standing in a doorway and chatting is safe; one has, literally and figuratively, an easy out. But the slightest gesture- taking a step in, glancing at a chair in the corner, unraveling a scarf- signals a commitment to a full-blown conversation. Similarly, if one is interrupted while reading a book, a thumb in the book signals an allegiance to the book, and the interrupter should expect only...
What a sweet and catchy song. I have it on a playlist that consists of about thirty songs and lately I seem to constantly find myself skipping through all of them to get to this one.
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An incomplete manifesto for growth by Bruce Mau
1. Allow events to change you. You have to be willing to grow. Growth is different from something that happens to you. You produce it. You live it. The prerequisites for growth: the openness to experience events and the willingness to be changed by them.
2. Forget about good. Good is a known quantity. Good is what we all agree on. Growth is not necessarily good. Growth is an exploration of...
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“I Only Have Eyes for You” [1959] by The...
Roger Ebert's Best Films of The Decade
I love Roger Ebert. I sheepishly admit that sometimes I need to read his reviews to find out whether or not I really liked a movie. I’m pretty happy to find a bunch of my favorite movies on his best films of the decade list. Seeing Philip Seymour Hoffman AND Meryl Streep’s faces in this article reminds me that I’m relying on the right film critic.
