January 2012
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“In 1959, Vice-President Nixon, speaking to members of California’s Commonwealth...”
– The Republican Party, from Nixon to Romney : The New Yorker
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“Most inventors and engineers I’ve met are like me … they live in their heads....”
– Steve Wozniak, quoted in an article about the creative benefits of solitude. cf. Pablo Picasso: “Without great solitude, no serious work is possible.” (The author of the article, Susan Cain, has a new book coming out: Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking)
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Up with Chris Hayes - Debating SOPA →
people, please be aware that this is happening and SOPA is horrifying
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Our Favorite 30 Rock GIFs →
I AM A JEDI
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“Of necessity the myth would emerge once more, because America’s politics...”
– Norman Mailer on JFK’s nomination, in Superman Comes to the Supermarket
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“I returned to college in the Fall, but my mind wasn’t at rest… I left and went...”
– 19-year-old Jack Kerouac in New York Diaries, a fantastic collection of famous and infamous journal entries about New York City from the past 400 years, featuring Andy Warhol, Mark Twain, J.F.K., and other icons. (via curiositycounts)
December 2011
23 posts
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Does Airport Security Really Make Us Safer? |... →
happy holidays.
“[W]hile the Jedi may be rebels, they’re also conservative underdogs; they aren’t...”
– tom carson, “jedi uber alles.” bless you, glenn kenny, for giving the world this book and all the sweet, sinfully delicious quasi-intellectualism its essays contain. (via beatyourwings)
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“Liberal Education is a more urgent matter for the average person today than...”
– The Imaginative Conservative: Rhetorical Education and Citizenship
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“A good politician should be able to explain without seeking to seduce; he should...”
– Vaclav Havel, The intellectual and politics - Al Jazeera
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“Reading a book should be a conversation between you and the author. Presumably...”
– Mortimer Adler, writing in 1940, makes a case for marginalia as the yin-yang of reading/writing (via curiositycounts)
I imagine my books as yearbooks for this reason…
Bob Lefsetz on lessons learned from Louie C.K. →
austinkleon:
Really great list. Some excerpts:
…No one arrives instantly formed…
…It’s easy to be famous. It’s hard to have fans…
…Publicity is a byproduct, it comes after the fact…
…You just do the work, you never know what will happen…
…A good marketing plan is irrelevant if the product sucks…
…A great artist doesn’t repeat what someone else has already done but...
“I have one consistency, which is [being] against the totalitarian - on the left...”
– Richard Dawkins interviews Christopher Hitchens
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The 15 Most Memorable Christopher Hitchens Quotes →
Picnics, man.
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“Lunch—dinner, drinks, any occasion—with Christopher always was. One of our...”
– Postscript: Christopher Hitchens : The New Yorker
a lovely eulogy from Christopher Buckley on Hitch. such a loss.
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“To me a toy is not only a thing that can be used for a child’s amusement,...”
– Kill Screen - Sky’s the Limit
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“But what it does bring home to us is that we can no longer pretend that marriage...”
– When It Comes To Marriage, Many More Say ‘I Don’t’ : NPR
https://buy.louisck.net/purchase →
thecomedystore:
Today is the day that Louis CK took his special directly to his audience. This is a big deal.It means gate keepers are irrelevant, it means an artist can take his work directly to his audience and make good money (?). It is how art should work.
Buy the file. Tell your friends to buy the file.
Here’s what Louis is saying about Torrents:
To those who might wish to “torrent”...
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“Reading is in fact extremely interactive from a neurological point of view. Your...”
– Margaret Atwood (via austinkleon)
True.
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What I Lost in Libya - Magazine - The Atlantic →
Absolutely incredible story from Clare Gillis.
Dreams
gradschoolproblems:
Sometimes I dream about my Master’s Thesis, come up with a cogent argument for a problematic aspect of my analysis, and promptly forget the brilliance my subconscious came up with as soon as I wake up. Why can’t my REM cycles be more accommodating of my intellectual pursuits?
a new blog venture from some of us in the cohort. follow! we’ll be updating frequently.
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The End of Austin: A Collaborative, Interactive... →
One of the many wonderful projects from my Documenting America class - go look!
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“LIBERALS WHO FLOCKED to see Michael Moore’s Fahrenheit 9/11 report that...”
– Andrew Leigh, “Right of Hollywood,” in The Weekly Standard
(Ed Meese? Really?)
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“Today we are particularly enamoured with churning out visual material – well...”
– A Shift From the Visual – thoughtful piece by frogdesign’s Jan Chipchase on the technological advances changing our relationship with images (via curiositycounts)
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“Emotion in general leads to transmission, and awe is quite a strong emotion…If...”
– Dr. Jonah Berger in a New York Times column by John Tierney, published February 8, 2010
I think about this all the time.
(via dianakimball)
This is why I love graduate school - it fosters social cohesion through ideas. There’s a constant circulation of awe as we are all drawn to different...
November 2011
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Make Friends Like It’s The Sandlot Or Stand By Me... →
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"The Deadliness Of Doing" - By Andrew Sullivan →
this blog post blew my mind 8 times over.
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“I think subjectivity will always be first and foremost the province of art....”
– Will Neuroscience Kill the Novel? | Book Think | Big Think
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“As a vegetable, I am honored to join the other three food groups,” said Gov....”
– FDA Declares Rick Perry a Vegetable « Borowitz Report
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“Imagine a world where YouTube, Flickr, Facebook or Twitter had never been...”
– Andrew Howard on what SOPA and the Protect IP act mean for the future of the Internet and how they affect you directly. Read it, then watch this, then go do something about it. (via curiositycounts)
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WatchSNL - Harry Caray: Space, The Infinite Frontier (by NBC)
even if things aren’t going the best in the political world, we can always go back to Harry Caray and the Infinite Frontier.
“The list of tea-party candidates reads like the early history of the U.S. space...”
– When Did the GOP Lose Touch With Reality?
Bob Ostertag: Militarization Of Campus Police →
must read. Bob Ostertag is a professor at UC Davis.
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“I am writing to tell you in no uncertain terms that there must be space for...”
– Open Letter to Chancellor Linda P.B. Katehi | UCDavis Bicycle Barricade
a professor responds to the violence in the last video I posted by writing to the chancellor of UC Davis.
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