October 2010
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“Have you noticed how so often when we try to reconstruct the causes which lead...”
– William Faulkner (Absalom, Absalom!)
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Mei Mei, A Daughter's Song →
Listened to this in a class today. Audio montage about a girl and her Taiwanese mother. Half hour well spent. Listen!
P.S. Radio is so amazing.
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The Cinnamon Peeler →
(by Michael Ondaatje)
“ what good is it to be the lime burner’s daughter left with no trace as if not spoken to in the act of love as if wounded without the pleasure of a scar”
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Ack this is not what I need right now.
SL: oh god
SL: oh god oh god oh god
SL: maybe i should marry rich. THIS IS THE PROBLEM THOUGH. if i work in radio, i won't marry rich
CS: why not?
SL: i'll marry someone else that works in radio, thus producing the poorest well-educated family EVER
CS: not even. you should meet some of my family friends
CS: an MFA for everyone!
SL: you know what i mean though
CS: let me do you a huge favor, you suburbanite bi-otch
CS: you need less money than you think in order to be happy
CS: [our college] is an artificial, shit-filled environment in this respect
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“You live like this, sheltered, in a delicate world, and you believe you are...”
– Anais Nin
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MBTI.
SL: I'm writing on Myers-Briggs.
TG: That's like a disease, right?
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Philosophical problem of the week.
(As worded by my super-awesome, super-far-away friend.)
Mine: what matters? does anything matter?
Hers: anything matters. but what?
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Watch“Doorways” — Radical Face, on Touch the Sky EP.
I’m just so in love with this itty bitty EP. And this video.
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“Everything is all right, and everybody has to do exactly what he does.”
– Kurt Vonnegut (Slaughterhouse-Five)
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NPR Music Faces The Man, With An Assist From Lost... →
“By now, we’ve no doubt told you all about NPR Music’s Tiny Desk Concerts, in which we bring our favorite musicians to perform short sets at Bob Boilen’s desk. In the two and a half years we’ve been at it, we’re recorded more than a hundred of them, and they’ve become a trademark of what NPR Music is all about: a chance to discover (or rediscover) ...
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DEAR SUGAR, The Rumpus Advice Column #53: “A... →
(from The Rumpus)
“It’s a closed circuit system, sweet pea. You are not one iota more worthy of love or inclusion than that boy. No matter what happens, no matter how old you are, I know for certain that so long as you believe yourself to be superior to him you will never feel okay with yourself. Until you are incapable of writing the sentence “while I’m stuck with an anti-social kid...
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Best Glee moment ever.
Rachel: I think you and I are a little bit more similar than you think.
Kurt: That's a terrible thing to say.
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“The thought of suicide is a powerful solace: by means of it one gets through...”
– Friedrich Nietzsche
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The All Songs 24/7 Music Channel →
(from NPR)
“Hear a non-stop mix of every song ever played during the 10 years of All Songs Considered. Enjoy old favorites, brand-new tracks and exclusive live concert recordings from the archive. Tune in any time, 24 hours a day, seven days a week.”
This is kind of cool, yeah?
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Senior year, anyone?
JL: also
JL: showed up
JL: SUPERDRUNK
JL: to
JL: this meeting
JL: passed out
JL: LOL
JL: SO MUCH JUDGMENT
JL: WHATEVER
SL: wait. you PASSED OUT DRUNK at a meeting?!
JL: YES LOL
JL: OMG
JL: SO DRUNK IDK HOW THIS HAPPENED
JL: UGH
JL: I AM THE WORST
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In Defense of Naïve Reading →
(from The New York Times)
“Most students study some literature in college, and most of those are aware that they are being taught a lot of theory along with the literature. They understand that the latest theory is a broad social-science-like approach called “cultural studies,” or a particular version is called “post-colonialism” or “new historicism.” And there are still plenty of...
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unter (______) a bear →
“Hey, I don’t want to shoot this bear!”
Pure Youtube genius.
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"Disconnect": Why cellphones may be killing us →
(From Salon.com)
“In ‘Disconnect,’ Devra Davis, a scientist and National Book Award finalist for “When Smoke Ran Like Water,” looks at the connection between cellphones and health problems, with some disturbing results. Recent studies have tied cellphone use to rises in brain damage, cheek cancer and malfunctioning sperm. She reveals the unsettling fact that many...
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“What do you think? I’m not a starfish or a pepper tree. I’m a living, breathing...”
– Haruki Murakami (Kafka on the Shore)
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The Spoils of Happiness →
(from The New York Times)
“‘What is happiness?’ is one of those strange questions philosophers ask, and it’s hard to answer. Philosophy, as a discipline, doesn’t agree about it. Philosophers are a contentious, disagreeable, lot by nature and training. But the question’s hard because of a problematic prejudice about what kind of thing happiness might be. I’d like to diagnose...
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Take Me To a Future Where Books Act Like This →
(from Gizmodo)
“Books aren’t going to go away any time soon. But, like magazines have started to, they’re going to evolve. And if that evolution looks anything like these concepts, we’re in for a pleasant literary future.
These three explorations, from design firm IDEO, each represents a different direction book technology could go. But what they have in ...
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“Imagine that human existence is defined by an Ache: the Ache of our not being,...”
– Jonathan Franzen (How To Be Alone: Essays) (via fuckyeahliteraryquotes)
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Apple Logo Is an Agnostic's Crucifix, Star of... →
“As it’s stated in the book of Jobs: Thou shalt not worship false iPhones.
Or so goes the thinking in a new study from Duke University, which concludes: “The brand name logo on a laptop or a shirt pocket may do the same thing for some people that a pendant of a crucifix or Star of David does for others.” In fact, the more religious a person is, the less brand expression ...
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Extreme Baby Carrots: An Experiment In Marketing →
(from NPR)
“If you try to tell teenagers that they should eat carrots because they are full of vitamins and good for their eyes, you’re probably not telling them anything they don’t already know. And, in fact, your message may be really annoying, says Ellen Thieken, a student at Mason High School near Cincinnati.
“When people hear ‘healthy,’ it scares...
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“When we did come home Sylvie would certainly be home, too, enjoying the evening,...”
– Marilynne Robinson (Housekeeping)
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Found in Translation →
(from The New York Times)
“As the author of “Las Horas,” “Die Stunden” and “De Uren” — ostensibly the Spanish, German and Dutch translations of my book “The Hours,” but actually unique works in their own right — I’ve come to understand that all literature is a product of translation. That is, translation is not merely a job assigned to a translator expert in a foreign language,...
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““And while muffins may be excellent,” Nadie went on,...”
– Jennifer Crusie (Faking It)
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Adventures in High Fidelity: Nick Hornby and Ben... →
(from The Atlantic)
“Making a tape is like writing a letter,” muses Rob, the narrator of Nick Hornby’s 1995 novel High Fidelity. “You’ve got to kick off with a corker, to hold the attention. … And then you’ve got to up it a notch, or cool it a notch. … There are loads of rules.” This week, Hornby comes out with an album of his own, a...
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