May 2013
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“There is, however, a respect in which Obama has become a stranger president than...”
– David Bromwich, “America’s Words of Peace and Acts of War,” Huffington Post (this essay explicates this inherent hypocrisy more effectively than any other I’ve read yet)
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“When I read, I am always at odds with traditional descriptions of space. “Mary...”
– Ben Greenman, in an interview with The Rumpus (so nice to know someone else feels this way, too! He certainly describes it better than I have ever been able to.)
April 2013
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“So the single most stunning fact about the Boston bombing, to me, is how much we...”
– Read this: http://jacobageller.com/2013/04/the-single-most-stunning-fact-about-the-boston-bombing/ (via gordonwithers)
Couldn’t agree more.
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“I watch TV and read the papers like everyone else. We know what we’re going to...”
– Gabrielle Giffords, “A Senate in the Gun Lobby’s Grip,” New York Times (powerful words from someone who knows a thing or two about politics and (tragically) gun violence)
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“Words do have the power to disgust and repulse, though—that, at least, has been...”
– Matthew J.X. Malady, “Why Do We Hate Certain Words?”, Slate (use your words carefully - the pen is grosser than the sword)
March 2013
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I have an idea for a potential How to Destroy...
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“The moon, the heart, the owl. All of these are ancient trails. I don’t know...”
– Jason Molina, in “A Secret of the Heart on a Sleeve” by Scott Pinkmountain, The Rumpus (RIP to one of my all-time favorite songwriters)
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“1 a particle is a thing in itself. a wave is a disturbance in something else....”
– Anne Carson in “The Inscrutable Brilliance of Anne Carson” by Sam Anderson, New York Times (I would like to be this wise and also a ‘tough old bugger’ at her age)
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“There is so little to remember of anyone—an anecdote, a conversation at a table....”
– Marilynne Robinson, Housekeeping (was reminded of this quote thanks to an Atlantic article; I think some Robinson rereads are long overdue for me)
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“I don’t talk about music in my fiction very much, but something curious happens...”
– Brian Evenson, in an interview with Blake Butler, BOMB Magazine (so there are others like me…by the way, read anything by Brian Evenson that you can get your hands on)
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“The mistake is to suppose that wires and neurons are homunculi that somehow...”
– Colin McGinn, “Homunculism”, New York Review of Books (haven’t read Kurzweil myself, and can’t say this review makes me want to…)
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One more underrated album for this week, this time...
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February 2013
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My most underrated album of 2012 - been listening...
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Three songs in and already love this album. If you...
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“Western does not believe it is a coincidence that when social-welfare programs...”
– Elizabeth Gudrais, “The Prison Problem”, Harvard Magazine (that last quote is pretty damning)
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“My grandfather would come to our house in the countryside, borrow one of our...”
– Thom Yorke, “Thom Yorke: What I’ve Learned”, Esquire (of the assorted choice quotes here, this one was my favorite)
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“Dating the “planetary UX” to the fifteenth century is something like...”
– Venkatesh Rao, “Welcome to the Future Nauseous”, ribbonfarm (sorry for the long quote, but I really could have copied this entire article; a major perception-shifter)
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One of my early favorites of 2013.
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“Among the Wakashan Indians of the Pacific Northwest, a grammatically correct...”
– Joshua Foer, “Utopian For Beginners”, The New Yorker (if you find languages as utterly fascinating as I do, you have to read this - thanks to Byliner for highlighting this and many other essays from 2012 that have given lots to think about this week)
January 2013
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“I think to admit despair and to revel in it — as many 20th- and 21st-century...”
– Ursula K. LeGuin, in an interview with The Millions (my kind of philosophy - I really need to read some more of her books)
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