May 2012
30 posts
“If I were Rivers Cuomo, Tumblr would be my frail Japanese cellist.”
– The Different Internet K-Holes There Are « Thought Catalog
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I’m feeling really blah blah
I want to blah...
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Alexandria Is The Most Well-Read City In America -... →
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Charlottesville Time Capsule Found →
It only took them over a year…
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Baltimore Kinetic Sculpture Race: 2012 Race Report →
I miss the Kinetic Sculpture Race so much. I’d love to be a pilot again, but if nothing else I really want to go watch next year.
(Here’s my favorite previously tumbled picture of our Sculpture)
“Will you do me a favor? Can I come sleep over at your house tonight? I can tell...”
– Spike Jonze.
just a little note he included at the bottom of the “About the Transfer” section in the booklet that’s included with Criterion’s BEING JOHN MALKOVICH dvd / blu-ray.
i, out of the kindness of my heart, will now here offer my favor to him… spike, whenever you’re in the east village just...
Watch(via ‘The Voice’ meets ‘Parks and Recreation’: See more of Cee Lo vs. Ron Swanson - Zap2it)
Existential crises means baking Rhubarb Ginger Crumble Bars.
Having eaten half the Rhubarb Ginger Crumble Bars means I can now justify baking brownies (using peppermint patties I stole from work).
Yes!
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The perfect ending to Sound of My Voice.
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Friday.
How Many People Are In Space Right Now? →
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“Oh my gosh, a golden oldie! I love...
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April 2012
47 posts
If on a winter's night a traveler - Wikipedia, the... →
Congratulations! You have decided to read the Wikipedia article on the book If on a winter’s night a traveler (Se una notte d’inverno un viaggiatore), a novel published in 1979 by Italo Calvino.
“Telling the stories of various characters in relation to each other, how...”
– Tim Parks, who asks, “Do We Need Stories?” only to conclude, “perhaps not” only after giving some lovely explanations of exactly why we do. (via thelifeguardlibrarian)
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“Has this person ever read Calvino?” Catching up:...
miettecast:
HD: You see something that’s just come out, and you ask yourself, “Has this person ever read Calvino?” because they’re doing something somebody did better forty years ago. I came across this book recently that seemed like it was doing something less well than Barthes did in Fragments d’un discours amoureux. And it’s just that Barthes is so wonderful.
CG: Do you think that people...
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