January 2012
19 posts
What Are You Going to Do With That? →
“In A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, James Joyce has Stephen Dedalus famously say, about growing up in Ireland in the late 19th century, “When the soul of a man is born in this country there are nets flung at it to hold it back from flight. You talk to me of nationality, language, religion. I shall try to fly by those nets.”
Today there are other nets. One of those...
Watchfilmprojections:
The first official trailer for Wes Anderson’s latest film, Moonrise Kingdom, starring Bill Murray, Jason Schwartzman, Bruce Willis, Ed Norton, Frances McDormand, and more. The film will be released on May 25, 2012.
tesslynch:
van morrison — into the mystic
Tear it Down
We find out the heart only by dismantling what the heart knows. By redefining the morning, we find a morning that comes just after darkness. We can break through marriage into marriage. By insisting on love we spoil it, get beyond affection and wade mouth-deep into love. We must unlearn the constellations to see the stars. But going back toward childhood will not help. The village is not...
“Well begun is half done.”
– Aristotle
December 2011
7 posts
“I wanted a bookstore because the book business is... →
George Whitman, the American-born owner of Shakespeare & Company, a fabled English-language bookstore on the Left Bank in Paris and a magnet for writers, poets and tourists for close to 60 years, died on Wednesday in his apartment above the store. He was 98.
Go Forth and Destroy Your Community Sayeth Amazon →
“Science does not purvey absolute truth, science is a mechanism. It’s a way of...”
– Isaac Asimov on science, creativity, and education in a rare Bill Moyers interview circa 1988 (via taylorlorenz) (via wallytheidol)
On Starbucks' Let's Merry Holiday Slogan →
“Merry” is an adjective. “Let’s,” as in “let us,” as in “permit us to,” demands a verb. Presumably, this slogan represents some effort to make a pun. The effort fails. Would Starbucks write, “Let’s funny” or “Let’s delicious”? Apparently, Starbucks would. Customers ought to be concerned: Word play at the expense of grammar is not play at all. It’s antisocial. (via)
“The relevant constitutional text is the Fourth Amendment which says, ‘The right...”
– On today’s Fresh Air, law professor Jeffrey Rosen talks about United States v. Jones, a case the Supreme Court is currently considering. At issue is whether police need to have a warrant from a judge before attaching a secret GPS monitor to a car to track a suspect around the clock. (via...
November 2011
9 posts
Convalescing by Jack Gilbert
I spend the days deciding
on a commemorative poem.
Not, luckily, an epitaph.
A quiet poem
to establish the fact of me.
As one of the incidental faces
in those stone processions.
Carefully done.
Not claiming that I was
at any of the great victories.
But that I volunteered.
WatchEdgar Meyer makes the bass sound like it should
The Horror Show at Penn State →
Blue Inequality vs. Red Inequality →
October 2011
20 posts
Ode to Joy - Frank O’Hara
“My turn shall also come:
I sense the spreading of a wing.”
– Osip Mandelstam
“Oh, tenderly the haughty day
Fills his blue urn with fire.”
– Emerson
“Poetry holds the knowledge that we are alive and that we know we’re going to...”
– On today’s Fresh Air, poet Marie Howe discusses several of her poems, which deal with topics such as loss, love, spirituality, gender, sexuality and intimacy. (via nprfreshair)
“A picture lives by companionship, expanding and quickening in the eyes of the...”
– Mark Rothko (via chrisvillacillo)
“Many of our rich men have not been content with equal protection and equal...”
– Andrew Jackson, 1832 - Veto of the Second Bank of the United States (via climateadaptation)
Occupying…Aspen? →
Tear It Down
By Jack Gilbert We find out the heart only by dismantling what
the heart knows. By redefining the morning,
we find a morning that comes just after darkness.
We can break through marriage into marriage.
By insisting on love we spoil it, get beyond
affection and wade mouth-deep into love.
We must unlearn the constellations to see the stars.
But going back toward childhood will not help.
The village...
Greg Brown - If I Had Known