January 2012
3 posts
“A. Art is often an outgrowth of the self’s desire to be loved. An...”
– Why Charlie Kaufman Might Hate You
“Not all concepts wielded by professional scientists would improve...”
– Dawkins for the Edge piece 2011 : What Scientific Concept Would Improve Everybody’s Cognitive Toolkit?
December 2011
2 posts
“r/shitredditsays has to be the most misunderstood subreddit there is. I have no...”
– liah on this Reddit thread
November 2011
4 posts
October 2011
1 post
September 2011
4 posts
1 tag
“Beauty is not the goal of competitive sports, but high-level sports are a prime...”
– DFW
August 2011
7 posts
2 tags
“When I got my first television set, I stopped caring so much about having close...”
– Andy Warhol
July 2011
10 posts
“I’m still pretty sure this actually is satire. A new kind of satire, where...”
– mostlyferal
Par for the Course
Mam: Because, it's like, Frenchmen. That's what they do. Sit down, and plot ways to infuriate us Americans whilst drinking their wine and smoking their cigarettes.
Jon: Don't forget their bicycles. Never forget the yellow jersey, lest your death.
Mam: A Frenchman has not taken the yellow jersey in decades. Not important.
Jon: Are you sure about that?
Mam: Not terribly sure, but pretty sure. Kinda like the existence of my colon. How do I know it's there? Because I poop. That's how.
Jon: I totally understand. I derive the existence of the French from my ability to poop. And fucking Russians because of piss. Because vodka.
Mam: Damn vodka.
Jon: Vodka and potatoes. Vodka is used for molotov cocktails, and potatoes for potato guns.
Mam: So, while the next revolution is telegraphed, the revolutionaries will hold their ground with potato guns. Little will they realize that they are using their food supply as ammunition, and that after the revolution is over, there will be no food.
Jon: But will they win?
Mam: I don't think that it really matters. Besides, by stating that 'they' will win, we are leaving a lot of room for ambiguity. Are we referring to the revolutionaries, or the terrorists?
Jon: The terrorists have already won. Like in Chile.
Mam: I know. Like when the whole big news thing was about those children.
Jon: Terrible governance. Chilean children stuck underground. Tragedy. The real question is, who even lets children into a mine? That's not a good place for them to work. They should be flippin' burgers or something like that.
Stacey: Hi guys. What'cha talking about?
Mam: Chilean miners.
Elizabeth: Oh! I get that one now. That's not funny guys.
Jon: That was the whole crux of our argument.
Mam: Terrorists.
Jon: The American dialog post-9/11.
“WHY DO I COME BEFORE YOU NOW WITH THIS SHEAF OF PAGES TO TRY TO ENGAGE YOUR...”
– A note from Allan Seager, The Man Behind the Window
“We know that teachers at the college level complain that many of their students...”
– The Great Gatsby has been rewritten.
June 2011
9 posts
“Because I consume vast quantities of text, seemingly small improvements in...”
– Amen.
Picture It.
langer:
The West Wing, Friday, June 24, 2011 Presidential Daily Briefing
“Good morning, Mr. President. Some updates for you on Libya, Afghanistan and Iraq, a problem in Senegal, unemployment isn’t budging, the debt ceiling talks stalled, the Dow took another shit yesterday, and…”
“…a rogue group known as ‘LulzSec’ is targeting the Arizona border patrol.”
“Note to future historians: In the age before commercialized internet access...”
– HN user shmosher
"Trying too hard"
gameofjacks:
Anyone else often see the critique ‘trying too hard’ here and there?
‘Trying too hard’ is a terrible comment and sentiment. The implications are that people should only try a little bit. People should be lazier. Things should only be ‘good enough.’ I severely dislike this comment because it is an excuse for lazy people to keep being lazy. It is a way of suppressing something...
“These, in the day when heaven was falling,
The hour when earth’s...”
– A.E. Housman
“To speak more generally, the ultimate goal of technology, the telos of techne,...”
– Jonathan Franzen in his NYTimes Op-Ed, Liking Is for Cowards. Go for What Hurts.
“I think it is not critical that the coordinator be able to originate designs of...”
– Eric Steven Raymond in The Cathedral and the Bazaar
May 2011
9 posts
jacecooke:
As a young child, during moments of acute heartache or shame, I would wonder how such tremendous pain could ever possibly leave me. In late adolescence, I became acquainted with the soul’s self-preserving anesthesia, and learned to draw strength by anticipating the wash of numb which inevitably cooled and detached me from all feeling, allowing what once felt inescapable, to...
If you ever wonder why people tire me.
This is a ‘copy-paste’ quote, presented without context:
Ah, thanks, Beth( you don’t mind that name, right? Too busy to write your full name lol). You’re a psychotherapist? COOL!! I thought of being a therpist when I was little( don’t have patience for that lol). Yep, I’m a nice person, but I have a RLY bad dark side( runs with chainsaw xD). Yeah, my...
April 2011
1 post
Q: How many Cormac McCarthies does it take to...
A: Two or perhaps three, approaching now, from beyond the tree in the long low light of morning. From some black place: a reckoning neither required nor bidden, a reckoning no judge could have ordered, but a reckoning nonetheless. One of the men carries a single glove, ready to grip the hot, bright bulb and twist it dead. The other two follow, smoking, and whisper about what is to come: the...