February 2012
7 posts
“This is the patience that approaches grace—facing down all that rude and...”
– Bill Raftery and the Power of Love | The Classical
“We optimize for joy. We believe writing code is a lot of hard work, and the only...”
– Redis Manifesto
“autophagy, or “self-eating,”
– Phys Ed: Exercise as Housecleaning for the Body - NYTimes.com
“Surely there will be a day of reckoning for those who defraud the laborer of his...”
– Letters of Note: To My Old Master
“Being poor is a mindset. And it’s one that, if given the chance, will make...”
– The 5 Stupidest Habits You Develop Growing Up Poor | Cracked.com
January 2012
23 posts
“As an experiment, go out of your way to
write a non-story. It will still be a...”
– guru_sws_ck_transcript_final.pdf (application/pdf Object)
“Failure is a badge of honour; it means
you risked failure. If you don’t risk...”
– guru_sws_ck_transcript_final.pdf (application/pdf Object)
“[T]he truth is that anything of
value you might do comes from you. The way I...”
– guru_sws_ck_transcript_final.pdf (application/pdf Object)
“Thinking past any conclusion you’ve drawn will
reward you with a more complex...”
– guru_sws_ck_transcript_final.pdf (application/pdf Object)
“[W]e’re lonely and empty and scared and we’re led to believe winning will change...”
– guru_sws_ck_transcript_final.pdf (application/pdf Object)
“I sit at my desk and I don’t know what to do.”
– guru_sws_ck_transcript_final.pdf (application/pdf Object)
“I wanted
to do something that I don’t know how to do, and
offer you the...”
– guru_sws_ck_transcript_final.pdf (application/pdf Object)
“[S]hame is not a catalyst for change; it is a paralytic. Anyone who has ever...”
– What’s Wrong With Fat-Shaming? | xoJane
“No one on food stamps is having a great life. No one. I promise you that.”
– Stamped | Scratchbomb.com
“He would joke, “It doesn’t matter. I can try to sit down and write a really good...”
– Craig Finn | Music | Interview | The A.V. Club
“[O]ne of my personal thoughts about records in general is that if you keep...”
– Craig Finn | Music | Interview | The A.V. Club
What We Talk About When We Talk About Lamont...
LaMont Chu, glabrous and high-gloss in a white towel and wristwatch, haltingly confesses to an increasingly crippling obsession with tennis fame. He wants to get to the Show so bad it feels like it’s eating him alive. To have his picture in shiny magazines, to be a wunderkind, to have guys in blue I/SPN blazers describe his every on-court move and mood in hushed broadcast cliches. To have...
“In my class and place, I did not see myself as a racist because I was taught to...”
– WhitePrivilege.pdf (application/pdf Object)
“I think some musicians are album artists, some are singles artists, and some are...”
– Robert Pollard in (self) exile: 16 great songs from a lost decade | Music | For Our Consideration | The A.V. Club
“I like the struggle in itself.”
– ChessBase.com - Chess News - Magnus Carlsen – ‘I don’t quite fit into the usual schemes’
“I want to punish you with the unforgettable shit you will take to your grave and...”
– Margaret Cho Rightfully Loses Her Shit
“Cartoons, like many pieces of conceptual art, are meant to be...”
– I Say It’s Spinach, and I Say the Hell With It | The Comics Journal
“We were in our mid-30s, we thought we’d missed the boat. It was late, but...”
– Guided By Voices: Don’t give up the day job | Music | The Guardian
“The essential problem being the question of how big we can allow all this to...”
– Save The Children | The Classical
“[C]omics fucked Kirby, and it’ll fuck you, too.”
– The Comics Reporter
“Komissarov himself thinks reality show viewers are the same everywhere and are...”
– Mother of all TV shows - FT.com
December 2011
23 posts
“studying learned helplessness”
– He’s Got the Whammy on Me | The Classical
“Once you develop the reputation as a badass […], it becomes easier to be...”
– He’s Got the Whammy on Me | The Classical
“Nerd” is a kind of drag in which ballers are liberated to pretend to be...”
– Wesley Morris on LeBron, Dwyane, Amar’e, and the rise of the NBA nerd - Grantland
“[W]hat was framed as mundane-but-lovely in 1976 now seems downright exotic. It...”
– Daguerréotypes | Film | Movie Review | The A.V. Club
“Think about the marks you want to make on the paper in front of you… the ones...”
– Some great illustration advice and questions answered for students (and non-students) in Jillian Tamaki’s new FAQ (via drawnblog)
[I know you didn’t ask for my advice, but you’re gonna get it anyway. -JT]
(via mutantmagic)
“Ultimately, if art is working then it’s done something and you only need to...”
– AGNI Online: Open to Influence: Jonathan Lethem on Reading, Writing and Concepts of Originality by Brian Gresko
“[T]he frameworks for identifying influence or for being anxious about it or...”
– AGNI Online: Open to Influence: Jonathan Lethem on Reading, Writing and Concepts of Originality by Brian Gresko
“In some ways not editing yourself would be like a sculptor dropping some clay...”
– Hi I’m Louis C.K. and this is a thing : IAmA
“Wallace failed beautifully.”
– John Jeremiah Sullivan Reviews David Foster Wallace’s Last Novel, ‘The Pale King’: Books: GQ
“Kahneman has a phrase to describe what they did: “Ironic research.”
– Michael Lewis on the King of Human Error | Culture | Vanity Fair
“The market’s willful ignorance had a self-reinforcing quality: the longer the...”
– Michael Lewis on the King of Human Error | Culture | Vanity Fair
“[H]e had spent nigh on three decades forging and donating paintings as a tribute...”
– FT.com / FT Magazine - The forger’s story
“We try not to try. That should be our motto.”
– GUIDED BY VOICES - Magnet Magazine
“You have to maintain the attitude of a child…You have to be able to throw...”
– GUIDED BY VOICES - Magnet Magazine
“I think that reckless approach or lack of patience is what endeared a lot of...”
– Robert Pollard | Music | Interview | The A.V. Club
“[G]ive it the old lo-fi feel of semi-ineptitude. We wanted that “we don’t really...”
– Robert Pollard | Music | Interview | The A.V. Club
