February 2011
53 posts
Revealing the Man Behind @MayorEmanuel →
“I love love.”
– GA
“The freedom. To have this incredible pleasure to do what you like to do. All our...”
– Christo, in an interview with FrontRow’s Peter Simek
“Now that is a big trunk. It fits a tuba, a suitcase, a dead dog, and a garment...”
– James Leer
10 Lessons For Young Designers →
Via the great Matt Fraction, who rightly notes “it applies to writers, too.”
“The arts offer us a commentary on being alive: how to make sense of the world...”
– Richard Eyre in the Guardian, on how the utility of art isn’t in its utility at all. (via thewhitesoftheireyes)
“Police fired many rounds of tear gas on the south side of the roundabout to keep...”
– “Delirious Joy in Bahrain,” by Nicholas Kristof
“I actually like it, in the sense that — you got kids? Kids always act up...”
– Chris Rock, in a Q&A with Scott Raab in the March Esquire
GQ's Guide to the New NBA Golden Age →
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“every thousand years
this metal sphere
ten times the size of Jupiter
floats...”
– Built to Spill, “Randy Described Eternity” — for no particular reason
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“To try to please people is an endless chasing of one’s own tail....”
– Wayne Coyne
“The people have brought down the regime!”
– what the protesters in Tahrir Square are chanting as they celebrate (via msnbc)
“It gives me strength, almost unbelievable strength, to know that you are there....”
– Valentino Achak Deng
Today's required reading: "When It Comes to... →
“I can imagine anything except having no imagination.”
– Michael Chabon
WatchOn a kick, I’d say.
“Only a novelist can know how neurotic, devious, underhanded a novelist can be…”
– Walker Percy (via theparisreview)
