December 2010
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“Go to the pine if you want to learn about the pine, or to the bamboo if you want...”
– Matsuo Bashō
Art is at its best when it’s an act of compassion.
Okay, the Gods of Heathrow clearly don’t like bunnies; another flight cancelled, another mouth at Christmas Dinner.
The Tesco cashier said I was an interesting person today. Well, complicated. Okay. The Tesco cashier told me I was complicated. But I think it was a compliment. Or maybe a language barrier mishap.
“I believe that basically you write for two people; yourself to try to make it...”
– Ernest Hemingway (the epigraph to Gerald Murnane’s Inland)
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Dear Media,
As soon as you stop talking about Sarah Palin, she goes away.
Love,
America
Newsweek Pictures of the Protest →
johnnysegment:
I was really astonished by the amount of damage on the night of the protests too, but let me just issue some reminders:
Read the entirety of the fee increase information before you make judgments (it’s not as bad of a deal as the media makes it out to be, although it’s still not great).
An overwhelming majority of the protesters were peaceful.
A lot of the violence was because...
The Most Damning Wikileaks Cable You'll Ever Read →
The Atlantic, you’re awesome. Let’s cuddle.
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Home - Zach Deputy
Take me home, no more alone
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Lorin: When we look at the animal scenes in Hemingway's work I wish I was a vegetarian.
Me: When we look at masculinity in Hemingway's work I wish I was a lesbian.
Finals
My research is starting to border on stalking. Seriously, I can tell you a lot about the personalities of the people who catalog books at the Oxford Library versus those at the Senate House Library versus those at the British Library.
If there’s a way to discern if a British product has caffeine in it, I sure haven’t found it.
Besides, of course, this tingly SPARK of LIFE in my...
