April 2009
18 posts
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mental shoes →
a new thing I wrote is published here!
Apr 29th
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"Sleepwalk" by Santo & Johnny (you might need to...
permalink, to listen
Apr 29th
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“They keep saying the right person will come along. I think mine got hit by a...”
– Anonymous (via affremblequotes)
Apr 28th
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Should Writers be Suffering More? →
“…Dostoevsky’s prose is less polished than Tolstoy’s — he simply didn’t have the time to write as many drafts — although by way of compensation, depending on your taste, Doestoevsky can take us further into the darker reaches of the human mind.”
Apr 27th
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Bruce Campbell in the hottest sex scene ever! Hulu - Jack of All Trades: Love Potion #10
Apr 25th
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Apr 24th
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Apr 21st
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Apr 21st
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“Sexual relations need not presume desire—habitual orgasmic (or...”
– Elizabeth Grosz
Apr 21st
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Interviewer: You've been described as being brilliant. Let me ask you a question: as a comedian do you sometimes find that the audience doesn't always get everything you do?
Charles Fleischer: I try and work on many levels, so that I can have an obscure reference to a Thomas Pynchon character and at the same time make a funny toilet sound. At the same time, use a little French haiku feng shui bonsai plant manipulation and like four people laugh for different reasons.
Apr 19th
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Apr 19th
Digital Detox Week →
Adbusters challenges you to do the unthinkable: unplug. Say good-bye to Twitter and Facebook. Turn off your TV, iPhone and Xbox. For seven days, reconnect with the natural world and the people around you. You’ll be amazed at how the magic creeps back into your life. Don’t be afraid and don’t find excuses, just take the plunge and see what happens.
Apr 18th
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Apr 17th
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Hulu - Jack of All Trades: Return of the Dragoon - Watch the full episode now. Classic Bruce Campbell, who is one of the best people ever to have existed. His response to his own “poker? I hardly know her” joke at 11:31 is uneqivocal loop-worthy hilarity.
Apr 13th
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The End of Solitude - ChronicleReview.com →
mmm transcendentalism… I think this changed my life. Or at least, got me back on track, in a way. “The alternative to boredom is what Whitman called idleness: a passive receptivity to the world. So it is with the current generation’s experience of being alone. That is precisely the recognition implicit in the idea of solitude, which is to loneliness what idleness is to boredom....
Apr 12th
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Apr 10th
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The Bob Bingham Enigma
I really like Jesus Christ Superstar (1973). I grew up listening to the soundtrack and recently got into it again when I got to see it on the big screen as part of the ScreenPeace Film Festival put on by the Dayton International Peace Museum a few months ago. I did the whole standard internet nerd thing then, Googling and IMDbing, downloading the soundtrack, seeing where the actors were now, that...
Apr 2nd
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Why money messes with your mind  →
“For economists, [money] is nothing more than a tool of exchange that makes economic life more efficient. Just as an axe allows us to chop down trees, money allows us to have markets that, traditional economists tell us, dispassionately set the price of anything from a loaf of bread to a painting by Picasso. Yet money stirs up more passion, stress and envy than any axe or hammer ever...
Apr 1st