February 2012
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The sounds inbetween
prairietime:
The best part of the propane tank running dry on a Saturday night is that when the snow starts to fall on Sunday, the wood stove is roaring and the smell of it is coughing with the sound of the popping and crackling.
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Watchwordbrooklyn:
Best. Valentine’s. Video. Ever.
riverheadbooks:
Looks like the literary residents of LA’s Skylight Books are having a hard time resisting the passionate spirit of Valentine’s Day!
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January 2012
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“It’s the gloomy things that need our help. If everything in the...”
– Lady Sybil, Downton Abbey
“To read is to fly: it is to soar to a point of vantage which gives a view over...”
– - A C Grayling, Financial Times (in a review of A History of Reading by Alberto Manguel)
Fuck yeah.
November 2011
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October 2011
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July 2011
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May 2011
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“Here, one day, is a distraught man who describes how, while helping to dig in...”
– “When Everything Is Gone, Including a Sense of Direction,” New York Times May 28, 2011
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“Tornadoes uncurling from the sky, whiskey burning down our throats. Catfish...”
– Benjamin Percy, via Facebook
March 2011
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“We might say that throughout the centuries two opposite tendencies have competed...”
– ‘Lightness,’ Six Memos for the Next Millenium by Italo Calvino
yell-o asked: I'm reading Travesties right now! Tell me how you like it. I love Stoppard.
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Solid. Solid as a rock. →
January 2011
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“Don’t be afraid of a hug, but make sure you earn it.”
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Steve Levitan in “What ‘Modern Family’ Says About Modern Families”, The New York Times Jan. 21, 2011
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December 2010
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“So, when the weather is—as it mostly is—wet and windy, I’ll...”
– Eamon Grennan, “Country Road”, via holiday card for @BoswellBooks from @GraywolfPress
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Video: Slowed-down high-speed video of a train... →
mesjak:
Yep, it’s basically a high-speed camera mounted to a moving train, pointed at the scenery passing by. By slowing it down, you get this great hi-def, nearly 3D kind of experience, watching…
I have no words. I think I will try playing different music while I watch this and see what is evoked.
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“The greatest gift is the passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it...”
– The Art of Fiction LXXXVII by Elizabeth Hardwick, The Paris Review Issue 96, 1985
November 2010
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Against Amazon →
An ongoing archive of articles and blogs on issues related to Amazon and the reasons why shoppers would be better off, in many ways, avoiding being patrons of the site.
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Favorite Book, 12yrs old
The following is excerpted from the rough draft of an application for private school.
The latest book I can relate to is White Fang by Jack London. It’s the entrancing story of the struggle of a wild dog/wolf who was hurt physically and emotionally by humans, animals and nature. Being passed off from brutal owner to brutal owner, he learns to become a great dog fighter. Because he has been...
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“The living that throng Broadway care little perhaps for the Dead at Antietam,...”
– Brady’s Photographs. Pictures of the Dead at Antietam; The New York Times; Oct. 20,1862
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“Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (…) once advised a graduating class of young women at...”
– In Defense of Straight-Chuters by Hal Crowther, Blackbird v9.1
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Watch Do you “bubble and froth and slobber and cream with joy” at language? Do you “yoke impossible words together for the sound sex” of it? Do you use language to “seduce, charm, excite, please, affirm and tickle” those you talk to? I know I do.
October 2010
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i knew there was a reason i stayed up watching...
harmlessbalderdash:
it was to wait for the phone call informing me there was a customer locked in the bookstore after hours who needed to be let out.
nice guy, can’t believe i already forgot his fucking name.
Blake or Blaine or whatever your name was, it was a pleasure to meet you under such odd circumstances.
That’s awesome.
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“I quit teaching — on June 24, 197l, after seventh period — to go...”
– Richard Peck, NEIBA ‘10 author breakfast talk, Publishers Weekly
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“If Martin Luther King, Jr., had tried to do a wiki-boycott in Montgomery, he...”
– Malcolm Gladwell on why “the network will not be tweeted” because of the innate structure of social media; why major systemic change will not come from Facebook, et al.
“Small Change,” The New Yorker, October 4, 2010
harmless balderdash: this weekend, a... →
If only all weekends couldn’t be like this…
harmlessbalderdash:
beach drinking
country music festival
JEWEL, LIVE IN CONCERT
biking downtown at night
late night West Wing watching
wakeup IN PERFECT SYNC WITH MY REM CYCLE
early morning car rides
fields of wind generators!
saw people jumping out of planes!
apple picking (SO many apples)
pig petting
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WatchAnother great music video from Josh Ritter’s Royal City Band.
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September 2010
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harmlessbalderdash asked: what's the one book, if you had to choose one, you feel you absolutely still need to read before you die? (something that already exists.)
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“I think we ought to read only books that bite and sting us. If the book we are...”
– Franz Kafka in a letter to his friend Oskar Pollak.
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“The winter sun, poor ghost of itself, hung milky and wan behind layers of cloud...”
– The first passage in Thomas Mann’s short story “Tonio Kroger.”
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“The most precious opportunity presents itself when we come to the place where we...”
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