January 2012
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December 2011
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November 2011
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If what’s always distinguished bad writing—flat characters, a narrative world...
– David Foster Wallace, interview with Dalkey Archive Press (via trenchantashell)
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Your writing
isn’t good.
Your audience is a more pretentious version of yourself (if that’s possible). You’re so deep.
I’m a spiteful person.
You’re not a poet.
The scary thing however, is that the same people who spent this money on a...
– Hadron Collider.. Smadron Collider | Walkingwithspoons.
How on earth does believing in the big bang or evolution translate into ruthless lack of concern for the rest of humanity? Natural selection is part of evolution, in that it explains why, over billions of years, various species have survived,...
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Writing
thesilentist:
I wrote this at my other non-menswear blog. Posting here has been sparse, but I think some of you might enjoy this topic even though it’s not menswear related.
cubicleparty:
My roommate recently suggested to me that I should keep a diary. I actually think it’s a decent idea, but that’s not the topic I’d like to focus on at the moment. The conversation later drifted toward how he...
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I’ve learned a lot from bloggers. Some of the young men doing it are wonderful...
– Bruce Boyer on bloggers (via howtotalktogirlsatparties)
October 2011
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kittycate:
I keep thinking “I have free time, I should do something creative and artistic.”
Then I just watch more Seinfield and feel like a bad person instead.
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Jeff, I think you should pay for my health care,...
squashed:
Jeff Miller writes:
People demonstrating at Wall Street are holding up signs with slogans like, “Housing is a right,” and “College is a Right,” and “Health Care is a Right.” To much of America, these signs read: ”You need to pay for my housing,” and “You need to pay for my college,” and “You need to pay for my health care.” These are demands I would never make upon my closest...
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Nine-tenths of the appeal of pornography is due to the indecent feelings...
– Bertrand Russell (via philphys)
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September 2011
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Thinking has to be learned the way dancing has to be learned.
– Nietzsche (via philphys)