January 2011
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The Problem With Memoirs - NYTimes.com →
There was a time when you had to earn the right to draft a memoir, by accomplishing something noteworthy or having an extremely unusual experience or being such a brilliant writer that you could turn relatively ordinary occurrences into a snapshot of a broader historical moment. Anyone who didn’t fit one of those categories was obliged to keep quiet. Unremarkable lives went unremarked upon, the...
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Best Beer Bars 2011 - RateBeer →
I can walk to #4 and drive to #7 in like 8 minutes. We’ve also got the #12 retailer. I love Atlanta.
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“You should just sit down, there should be a bottomless thing of chips and really...”
– Annie Clark. Amen.
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“As there is no appetite, sexual or otherwise, without excitement, the sane...”
– Adam Phillips.
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A Fine Balance: Can one write about yoga without... →
Spiritual experiences are easy to put into words, as long as you stick to cheesy, clichéd ones.
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“We recognize our sexual desire by the fact that once again—once again,...”
– Adam Phillips.
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“Since money always promises something other than itself—it is only, as we...”
– Adam Phillips. I think I’ll post a couple more from his very good Going Sane later.
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Marginal Revolution: In praise of picture books →
The authors of picture books are often relatively “agenda-less,” since most people don’t read the text, the selling point is the pictures, and the book is so expensive that the publisher doesn’t want to rule out the broadest possible audience.
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Opinions | Meteuphoric →
Katja Grace gathers her opinions in one spot. I’m repeatedly surprised and delighted by how valuable I find some bloggers’ hunches, musings, and asides, e.g. Justin Wehr’s squibs, Ben Casnocha’s assorted musings, Colin Marshall’s heuristics.
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Baking for Beginners: An Introduction to... →
You may read this and think: High maintenance! Picky! Temperamental! But I hope you’ll view it like this: Pastry is logical and consistent and wonderfully fun.
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Your Shit, My Stuff, Goldilocks, and Making the...
viafrank:
The less frequently we use something, the stronger the argument for valuing access over ownership.
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Playboy Interview: Metallica (April 2001) →
This interview is packed with wonderful tidbits. James Hetfield on day jobs and the early tour routine:
We worked at day jobs. After that, we’d throw parties, take the furniture out of the house and smash the joint. We smashed dressing rooms just because you were supposed to. Then you’d get the bill and go, “Whoa! I didn’t know Pete Townshend paid for his lamp!” Come back off the tour and you...
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“On the first tour through America, my spandex—I fucking hate saying, “my...”
– James Hetfield in the April 2001 Playboy interview with Metallica.
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“When I open my mouth, most of the time something somewhat eloquent comes out,...”
– Lars Ulrich in the April 2001 Playboy interview with Metallica.
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“An interview is a halfway point between a psychoanalytical sitting and a...”
– Federico Fellini in an interview with Bright Lights Film Journal.
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Playboy Interview: Metallica (April 2001) →
This interview is packed with wonderful tidbits. James Hetfield on day jobs and the early tour routine:
We worked at day jobs. After that, we’d throw parties, take the furniture out of the house and smash the joint. We smashed dressing rooms just because you were supposed to. Then you’d get the bill and go, “Whoa! I didn’t know Pete Townshend paid for his lamp!” Come back off the tour and you...
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“On the first tour through America, my spandex—I fucking hate saying, “my...”
– James Hetfield in the April 2001 Playboy interview with Metallica.
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“When I open my mouth, most of the time something somewhat eloquent comes out,...”
– Lars Ulrich in the April 2001 Playboy interview with Metallica.
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The Simple Art of Murder - Raymond Chandler →
Chandler on the detective story and how it resists criticism. This bit reminded me of Joan Acocella’s recent article about Stieg Larsson:
The murder novel has also a depressing way of minding its own business, solving its own problems and answering its own questions. There is nothing left to discuss, except whether it was well enough written to be good fiction, and the people who make up the...
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Abandon resolutions. Stop looking for a soulmate.... →
I’ve come back to read this several times over the past couple weeks. (via)
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“Besides, I am destined to perish, definitively, and only some instant of myself...”
– From Borges’ short story Borges and I, which, even though it’s so short, I’ve tumbled before. My reading of his work has been scattered (I picked up a few different collections to fix that), but it almost always hurts my brain in a good way. For the volume of imagination and...
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Our Psychic Living Room: Why It's Particularly... →
What Wallace is often trying to say in his fiction and essays—the message, as it were, at the heart of so much outpouring of feeling—is simple: think about someone else besides yourself.
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Raymond Chandler - The Simple Art of Murder →
Chandler on the detective story and how it resists criticism. This bit reminded me of Joan Acocella’s recent article about Stieg Larsson:
The murder novel has also a depressing way of minding its own business, solving its own problems and answering its own questions. There is nothing left to discuss, except whether it was well enough written to be good fiction, and the people who make up the...
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Abandon resolutions. Stop looking for a soulmate.... →
I’ve come back to read this several times over the past couple weeks. (via)
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“Besides, I am destined to perish, definitively, and only some instant of myself...”
– From Borges’ short story Borges and I, which, even though it’s so short, I’ve tumbled before. My reading of his work has been scattered (I picked up a few different collections to fix that), but it almost always hurts my brain in a good way. For the volume of imagination and...
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Our Psychic Living Room: Why It's Particularly... →
What Wallace is often trying to say in his fiction and essays—the message, as it were, at the heart of so much outpouring of feeling—is simple: think about someone else besides yourself.
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“When I begin working on a film, it’s like standing on shaky ground. I...”
– Carlos Sorín.
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“There’s Blake flying up for an offensive rebound, soaring higher, and...”
– Bill Simmons on Blake Griffin, who’s probably the most ridiculous player I’ve ever seen.
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“There’s Blake flying up for an offensive rebound, soaring higher, and...”
– Bill Simmons on Blake Griffin, who’s probably the most ridiculous player I’ve ever seen.
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Marginal Revolution: Sex and Statistics or... →
Alex Tabarrok mulls over the recent OkTrends post on the Mathematics of Beauty.
I think there are certain types of beauty that greatly attract some men but repel others. Analagously, some people will pay hundreds of dollars for an ounce of caviar that other people won’t eat for free. The reason some people love caviar, however, is not that other people dislike it. Instead, it just so...
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Marginal Revolution: Sex and Statistics or... →
Alex Tabarrok mulls over the recent OkTrends post on the Mathematics of Beauty.
I think there are certain types of beauty that greatly attract some men but repel others. Analagously, some people will pay hundreds of dollars for an ounce of caviar that other people won’t eat for free. The reason some people love caviar, however, is not that other people dislike it. Instead, it just so...
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Emphasis Update and Source - NYTimes.com →
This is really cool. (via)
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Motown Junkies →
“A guide to every Motown single ever released”. Wow. There’s a ton of work that’s gone into these reviews. Here’s the master index.
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WatchIce Skating on Peachtree Street in Midtown Atlanta. Now this is the kind of urban development I like to see. (via)