March 2012
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February 2012
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Let us go then, you and I
When the evening is spread out against the sky,
Like a patient etherized upon a table.
At my last eye exam, my optometrist told me I needed to take more frequent breaks when reading books or using the computer. And apparently going on Facebook as a “break” doesn’t count because I’m still using my eyes. Staring off into space is awfully boring, so I decided to use my eye...
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“I guess my favorite thing in the world is when I look at a piece of art, or read a story, or watch a movie where I walk away feeling like “Oh my god — I have to do something, I have to make something or talk to someone — things are not the same anymore” — and so I try to make work where you come away with that feeling. It’s like, yeah, you’re thinking about what you just saw, but even...
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Tragicomic word usage of the day
“Iran is behind these attacks and it is the largest TERROR EXPORTER in the world.”
Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu said this in regards to the bombings of Israeli embassies today. Name-calling another nation “terror exporter” is both absurdly funny and most lamentable.
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Le malheur a été mon dieu.
Je me suis allongé dans la boue. Je me suis séché à l’air du crime. Et j’ai joué de bons tours à la folie.
Unhappiness has been my god. I have lain down in the mud, and dried myself off in the crime-infested air. I have played the fool to the point of madness.
- Rimbaud, “Un Saison En Enfer” (“A Season in Hell”)
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