February 2012
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I'm blogging this week at The Awl btw
Doree: how is working with balk
i assume nothing has changed
me: it's eeeerily similar
"can i post a cat video"
"no"
Okay, whatever, but most days this is still a...
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Also bears.
This is kind of silly and undeserved, in the sense that our model is pretty simple and retro, but from a larger perspective it is actually a nice acknowledgment of that model, which is run what you love and don’t worry about traffic, never concern yourself about going over anyone’s head with what you’re running and partner with talented people who you trust will do amazing...
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"Sit your ass down and watch some news."
If you grew up in the ’80s, John Williams wrote the soundtrack to pretty much every movie you saw in the summer. If you grew up in an NBC family, he wrote the notes that always make you think “news.” If you grew up in Boston he was the guy who replaced Arthur Fiedler. Anyway, composer/conductor (and, surprisingly, lyricist) John Williams turns 80 today.
Weirdest fortune cookie ever.
“Years later you will realize that Mike’s crazy girlfriend was a person just like you, and maybe the things that you and your group snickered about and gave Mike shit for were just signs that she was as damaged as everybody else and had the basic insecurities that we all do, and actually Mike was kind of a dick and may have exaggerated some of his stories for effect and she probably...
Happy Thursday! I wrote you a poem.
It’s called “I Should Be So Lucky” and it goes like this:
I’d like them to build me a lead-lined room
Lightproof, soundproof, kept reasonably cool
In fact, a kind of tomb made just for sleep.
A pillow on the floor where I would lay
Eyes closed, arms folded tight across my chest
While outside all would go on as before
People keeping on and growing old
Until all...
I UNDERSTAND! →
They all DO suppose what they want to suppose!
Another victim of cigarettes taken from us at the...
“Szymborska, a heavy smoker, died in her sleep of lung cancer Wednesday evening at her home in the southern city of Krakow, her personal secretary Michal Rusinek said.”
I am so sick of Em standing up for the patriarchy. →
Also "The Matrix." →
