May 2012
12 posts
An "exile" in Belgium answers some questions from...
Love this:
1. What is your proficiency in French, Dutch, English and German? When I’m drunk, I can speak French fluently. Dutch is not a language. English is what I think everyone should speak and German just upsets me.
8. How often do you visit museums, operas, galleries etc in Brussels? Rather than answering this question, I will pose you one in return. How can you expect me to...
WHEN SOMEONE TELLS ME A PIECE BY A NON-JOURNALIST...
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April 2012
12 posts
Letters of Note: C. S. Lewis on Writing →
Don’t use words too big for the subject. Don’t say “infinitely” when you mean “very”; otherwise you’ll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.
“Writing autobiographically is something that Joni Mitchell did for two or three...”
– A Q&A With Stephin Merritt Of The Magnetic Fields | The Awl
March 2012
5 posts
Dear Restoration Hardware,
Thank you for three heavy catalogs wrapped in thick plastic that you sent me today. It was a thoughtful present — and very unexpected!
How did you decide I wanted to look at pictures of a bigass clock, a $2000 chair from Jigsaw’s mid-century den, and a greige burlap chaise that’s ready to start losing its stuffing?
That’s some funny stuff you got there.
Thanks again,...
“Codifying “via” links with confusing symbols is solving the wrong problem.”
– I’m not a “curator” – Marco.org (via emptyage)
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Cake Pan Library →
A library in Nebraska lends out cake and muffin tins. In Brooklyn I suppose this would also have to include home-brew kits and knitting needles.
February 2012
1 post
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November 2011
6 posts
Pudding Utopia
Stupid me, I thought New York was already a pudding utopia of some sort.
This is how to write a newspaper
The New York Times of the early 1880s, responding to some in Boston who attempted to have the Statue of Liberty installed there:
This statue is dear to us, though we have never looked upon it, and no third-rate town is going to step in and take it from us… . Let Boston be warned [that] we have more than a million people in this City who are resolved that the great lighthouse statue shall...
October 2011
5 posts
Criterion Does Halloween →
Authentic buggy lap robe →
I guess the Amish will have no truck with Snuggies?
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September 2011
1 post
July 2011
2 posts
On Work: ‘Writing a Résumé’ – Wislawa Szymborska →
onwork:
What needs to be done? Fill out the application and enclose a résumé.
Regardless of the length of life a résumé is best kept short.
Concise, well-chosen facts are de rigueur. Landscapes are replaced by addresses, shaky memories give way to unshakable dates.
Of all your loves mention only…
May 2011
6 posts
August vacation plans
ohhleary:
While I’m probably going to be broke after a summer with four weddings, they all happen in June and July. And with the news that a friend of mine just landed a job as a reporter in Milwaukee and three of my friends are now in Chicago, I think I’ll be paying a visit to the upper Midwest.
Because really, what better beer-drinking destination is there?
“In 2007, at a party celebrating his 50th anniversary at Random House, he refused...”
– Robert Loomis, Book Editor, Retiring From Random House (via seanfennessey)
Although of course it depends on how you define “working.”
