December 2011
2 posts
“ABSTRACT: A troubled girl lives in apartment in Greenwich Village. She is always...”
– Fiction: Day-Old Baby Rats : The New Yorker
“On the last day of the world
I would want to plant a tree”
– W.S. Merwin
August 2011
1 post
“And that, I think, was the handle—that sense of inevitable victory over the...”
– Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
May 2011
1 post
“According to the Weekly World News, the discovery of Bat Boy’s family tree...”
– Bat Boy (character) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
March 2011
2 posts
“There is nothing more practical in the end than the preservation of beauty.”
– Theodore Roosevelt
“When was that? In the previous life. Well, yes, these things happened. But we...”
– Pavel Datsyuk
January 2011
1 post
“We have learned to fly the air like birds and swim the sea like fish, but we...”
– MLK, via Take As Directed
December 2010
1 post
“I know it is the fashion to say that most of recorded history is lies anyway. I...”
– George Orwell, “Looking Back On The Spanish War”
November 2010
2 posts
“… at a time when people in America are desperate and you’re raking...”
– Bill Maher: New Rule: Rich People Who Complain About Being Vilified Should Be Vilified
“Like many a nerd before him, Zuckerberg is too hyped on the idea that he’s in...”
– Generation Why? by Zadie Smith
September 2010
2 posts
“In the 1990s, Ted told young patients, “Dr. Farber told me that someday we’d be...”
– Dan Shaughnessy, “Splendid memories of a genuine giant”
“The mistake was to assume that everyone measuring everything would produce...”
– Lucas Graves, “Traffic Jam”
June 2010
1 post
“Your watch will tell you that a shade less than two and a half hours have...”
– A.O. Scott
May 2010
1 post
“I don’t pretend to know the truth, to tell the truth or everything that...”
– Frederic Back
April 2010
1 post
“What happened here in Jefferson County would turn out to be the perfect metaphor...”
– Looting Main Street : Rolling Stone
January 2010
1 post
“The modern world worships the gods of speed and quantity, and of the quick and...”
– Rachel Carson
November 2009
1 post
“To be skeptical of climate models and credulous about things like carbon-eating...”
– “SuperFreakonomics” and climate change : The New Yorker
October 2009
18 posts
“We must stop her from laying her billions of Eggs and impregnating half a...”
– perfectlymadebirds, “The Bedford Battlestar One is in Hot Pursuit of the Slorpain Bird Being Queen”
“It could be that sometimes our greatest freedom may be to choose freedom from...”
– Peggy Orenstein, “Going Offline in Search of Freedom”
“Imagine what a dinner conversation would be like if you had decent table...”
– Natalie Angier, “In Mammals, a Complex Journey to the Middle Ear”
“Whether the British ruling class are wicked or merely stupid is one of the most...”
– George Orwell, “Looking Back On The Spanish War”
“The sight of a watercolour would be far more transgressive.”
– Nick Cohen, “Why the Tate’s posing curator is so passé”
“Today, the walls of Plato’s cave are so full of beamers, disco balls, plasma...”
– Koert van Mensvoort, “Fake for Real”
“It became increasingly clear that we were gearing up for another close encounter...”
– Joan Didion, “Obama: In the Irony-Free Zone”
“… it will be the biggest pumpkin the world has ever seen, smashing the...”
– Michael Levenson, “Pumped up”
“We’re already heavily into substitutes and people don’t know...”
– World’s oceans could become “soupy swill”: expert
“Some time ago, A. J. Jacobs, a senior editor at Esquire, set out to become the...”
– Joe Queenan, “‘The Know-It-All’: A Little Learning Is a Dangerous Thing”
“The financial system was behaving like a patient losing blood pressure.”
– Deborah Solomon, Liz Rappaport, Damian Paletta and Jon Hilsenrath, “Shock Forced Paulson’s Hand”
“It was fun watching the applecart being upset,” Schrader said, “but...”
– Robert Fulford, “Pauline Kael & trash cinema”
“A male toadfish may not look the part of an animal Olympian. He spends his time...”
– Natalie Angier, “Learning From a Muddy Muscle Master”
“That’s the essence of Kubrick’s dark prophecy: as we come to rely on computers...”
– Nicholas Carr, “Is Google Making Us Stupid?”
“… he seems both less and more substantial than the men he faces....”
– David Foster Wallace, “Federer as Religious Experience”
“Dianne Feinstein — a thirties-movie character in her own right, with her...”
– Janet Malcolm, “The Art of Testifying”
“Hunger bashed in the front gate of Haiti’s presidential palace. Hunger...”
– Marc Lacey, “Across Globe, Empty Bellies Bring Rising Anger”
“… a toad has about the most beautiful eye of any living creature. It is...”
– George Orwell, “Some Thoughts on the Common Toad”