June 2009
15 posts
“Whoever is the wisest among you is also mere conflict and a cross between plant...”
– Nietzsche
An Artist and a Madman, A Creature of Infinite...
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gregbrown:
This weekend I also finished reading Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov, and it’s the most beautiful - but also unnerving - novel I’ve ever read.
First things first: the novel starts out with the best opening to anything ever in the English language.
Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down...
“Pet Sounds”, by The Beach Boys. From...
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Sunday Classics, Leisure Edition
The Milton Bradley Bump Ball, circa 1969.
“So what was one supposed to do with the Bump Ball©? Apparently, the idea was to toss the ball in the air and keep it from hitting the ground by pressing it between you and the nearest hot chick while gyrating to the Bump Ball© theme song. A 45 of the song was included with every ball. The concept had everything. Dancing. Sex. Balls. Rock...
Don't Hate on Our Freedoms →
“The Internet is a big distraction,” Mr. Bradbury barked from his perch in his house in Los Angeles, which is jammed with enormous stuffed animals, videos, DVDs, wooden toys, photographs and books, with things like the National Medal of Arts sort of tossed on a table.
“Yahoo called me eight weeks ago,” he said, voice rising. “They wanted to put a book of mine on Yahoo! You know what I told them?...
La Tristeza de la Ciudad
“There are two New Yorks. One of them is the one you go out into every day and every day it smacks you in the face and maybe you laugh a little and the people walk down the street and trucks blow their horns and you are happy or you are not, but your heart is beating. Your heart is beating as you walk, say, through a steady drizzle, your beat-up umbrella bumping other beat-up umbrellas,...
Countdown to Closing Time
(Illustration/brain explosion by Jose Garibaldi)
Want! (Maybe Need.) →
“Easy PB&J Jar”:
If you can get past the listing of different nut butters for which this jar is suited *without* reaching for your wallet, please tell me your secret. Eve only ate the apple because there was half a jar of Extra Crunchy on hand.
(via Apartment Therapy)
The Ultimate Close-Up Magic Trick →
Harper Perennial posts a short story every Sunday (“most of them new, a few of them classics, from authors you know and some you don’t”). Subscribe, then while blearily trolling your RSS feed on Monday morning, you’ll remember to use your office copiers to print out some literature for the commute home. Not that you’re already counting down to the end of the day at...
We Say, "...seems louche." →
“[New York Times] readers are a well-educated group. They expect sophisticated coverage and literate prose. They delight in good writing and don’t shy away from complicated topics.
On the other hand, they probably don’t carry an unabridged dictionary along with the newspaper as they take the subway to work. And they don’t expect a news article to pose the same linguistic challenge as...
Vintage heartbreak, aged perfectly at fourteen...
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It T-Shirt Tuesday, Yo.
“C’est parce qu’ils s’aiment que tout va tourner mal pour eux.”
-Godard’s Une Femme Est Une Femme
[T-shirt by AllCITY via Rumplo]
