January 2009
58 posts
26 Years, 85 Notebooks →
by Michael Bierut, Design Observer
“The woman turned to survey the room, wearing the braced, defiant expression of...”
– from the first page of Zoe Heller’s novel, The Believers
one word →
found via Christine Mason Miller’s website
for some reason i find this simple writing exercise very intimidating.
“Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes...”
– my brother in law gave me a copy of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights for Christmas; i opened it on a random page this morning.
“Some live by “Love thy neighbor as thy self.”
Others by first do...”
– from Elizabeth Alexander’s inaugural poem, via the NYT
From Books, New President Found Voice (NYT... →
new yorker article on movie marketing →
alexash:
wildephotog:
c-quoia:
copycats:
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Amnesty International's 100 day challenge for... →
Day One: Global Economy Fixed. Day 20: Global Warming Reversed. Day 83: Meteor Defence Shield Created. Day 93: World Peace Established… We don’t expect the impossible from US President Barack Obama. But we are asking him to take concrete steps to counter terror with justice.
soupsoup:
snuh:
Crowded House : Don’t Dream...
‘There’s a ritualised coquetry about parties, don’t you find? Now what i like to do is to find a quiet spot somewhere, especially outside if it’s warm enough, and sit there with an old friend, someone i don’t have to renew anything with, and just deepen what we’ve got.’
’ But isn’t that a kind of renewal of something? Aren’t you...
“I don’t mean, by the way, those merely epiphanous moments we all experience from time to time - organ music washing over us in a burst of joy in Notre Dame, for instance, or any of those sudden, soaring, symphonic moments when the mind is swallowed by the heart - surely everyone has those. No, I mean one of those moments when right out of the blue something (a word, a gesture) fits...
who does she think she is (doco) →
epeolatry
scout:
wordjournal:
noun • /ɛpɪˈɒlətrɪ/ • the worship of words
Someone Once Told Me →
found via Only Dead Fish
the Little House that Love Built →
sarahsaturday:
benjaminf:
chumpsview:
Eddie...
“I do not believe that the accident of birth makes people sisters and brothers....”
– Maya Angelou (via spareunderthemat) (via claudia)
