February 2010
30 posts
Dyke & the Blazers, “Let A Woman Be A...
January 2010
16 posts
““If you’re trying to make an action game, it’s thin,” Jonathan Knight, the...”
– -NYTimes, “Abandon All Poetry, but Enter Hell With an Attitude”
What an incredibly enjoyable article. Top to bottom, every word. Thrilling. I love the juxtaposed quotes between Classics professors and video game designers.
“I still can’t believe this! All this hype for something so ridiculous! Who cares...”
– Apple’s New Thing (iPod) - Mac Forums via mattlehrer, who writes: “Typical response to the 2001 announcement of the original iPod. Click through for more.”
Ha! Nice gumshoeing, Matt.
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Indeed.
I was downright gleeful when I heard about the iPod. Five fucking GB of music on a device?...
“I hope to hell that when I do die somebody has the sense to just dump me in the...”
– Holden Caulfield, Catcher in the Rye
R.I.P. J.D. Salinger 01/28/2010
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Arthur ‘Big Boy’ Crudup,...
From "Jack Paar," by Wikipedia.
…The decision to censor the joke so angered Paar that the next night, February 11, 1960, he announced on the air that he was leaving the show, saying, “I’ve made a decision about what I’m going to do. I’m leaving The Tonight Show. There must be a better way to make a living than this, a way of entertaining people without being constantly involved in some form of...
“One need only observe outbreaks, in which the individual reacts energetically...”
– Theodor Adorno, from Minima Moralia, #23 If you read one aphorism a day, you can be done with this extraordinary little book by June.