April 2009
161 posts
World’s Most Powerful Laser has the Energy of a... →
March 2009
133 posts
Miss Universe Visits Guantánamo Bay - The Lede... →
Watchpaging branduponthebrain
The Rakes - Woes of the Working Woman
give your...
compiling a list of things that add to life’s pleasure but (typically, when used as directed) decrease its span:
not wearing a helmet on a bike / skateboard / motorcycle
smoking cigarettes
whistling at girls
tonic water with quinine
eggs with the yolk mixed in
bacon
steak fried in butter
This list is by no means comprehensive, and is heavily weighted towards the base pleasures of the...
“You should dream more, Mr Wormold. Reality in our century is not something to be...”
– Graham Greene
“Beauty is, or ought to be, no big deal, though the lack of it is. Beauty...”
– Review: Beauty by Roger Scruton | Books | The Observer
The New Atlantis » Why Minds Are Not Like... →
For anyone who has taken a Philosophy of Mind course or, presumably, Cog Sci, this article is a fascinating read.
Do you ever have those nights where you go to a party and you can’t seem to catch a coherent bit of conversation. It usually happens when there aren’t any circles worth joining, so you mill about trying to look uninterested (which you are, hopefully). Anyway combine this with a few coincidences and they combine to leave you feeling completely weird and disconnected. Tonight I kept...
“I suddenly wanted to cry, and I went into the water and started swimming, and...”
– Beach by Roberto Bolaño (Translated by Riley Hanick)
ShamWow Guy In Slap, Chop Bust - March 27, 2009 →
voltacuss →
proposed new editions of the classics geared...
Note: I have no idea whether the pop-culture references here actually work. I haven’t watched television in four years and at this point I’m just going on what I get from my unwitting by-weekly run-ins with Gawker (television is easily avoided, but that website, it appears, is not).
The Odyssey of Homer: The World’s Longest Walk of Shame
Milton’s Paradise Lost: With an...
“Knowing what to do now depends on the kind of economy and society we wish to...”
– LRB · Ross McKibbin: Will We Care When Labour Loses?
“You might remember that 3A was invoked, as a purely temporary response, after...”
– McSweeney’s Internet Tendency: Emotional State 3A.
Referring to Don Dellillo is so pre-David Foster Wallace’s death.
Mediafly: Tango Tales: all about Argentine tango →
Borges on Blindness—an essay on irony, rather than blindness alone. Assumes the reader is NOT blind, yet here he expounds on blindness’ great gifts. “La rouge et la noir”, those two colors most associated with death, blood, seduction, evil, magic—Borges cannot see. “My case is not especially dramatic.” Well then, whose is? “What is dramatic are those who suddenly lose their sight.” True, if you’re...
“Of course, it was a bity about the others,” Flashman writes, referring to the...”
– A NEW NADIR
