how teutonic of you

"You think out what actually happened, you tell friends long stories about it, you mull it over in..."

Fri, 21 Dec 2012 13:32:13 -0500

“You think out what actually happened, you tell friends long stories about it, you mull it over in your mind, you connect it together at leisure, then when the time comes to pay the rent again you force yourself to sit at the typewriter, or at the writing notebook, and get it over with as fast as you can … and there’s no harm in that because you’ve got the whole story lined up. Now how that’s done depends on what kind of steel trap you’ve got up in that little old head. This sounds boastful but a girl once told me I had a steel-trap brain, meaning I’d catch her with a statement she’d made an hour ago even though our talk had rambled a million light-years away from that point … you know what I mean, like a lawyer’s mind, say.”

- Jack Kerouac, on how to write. From The Paris Review (http://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/4260/the-art-of-fiction-no-41-jack-kerouac)

Pure smut, the decay of 2010

Wed, 08 Aug 2012 19:34:13 -0400

Pure smut, the decay of 2010

“Hi there!” tumbledore: An iceberg in...

Wed, 03 Aug 2011 08:57:33 -0400

“Hi there!”

tumbledore:

An iceberg in Newfoundland’s Goose Cove having just floated in from Greenland

“The Northern Peninsula’s international reputation as ‘Iceberg Alley’ continues to grow as more than a dozen gargantuan blocks of ice float down from Greenland. The largest, a chunk calved from the Petermann Ice Glacier, is yet to appear around the tip of Newfoundland however it was last seen off Battle Harbor on the Southern Labrador coast, yesterday.”

"Time: what a fickle lover! No sooner do we arrive at a perfect moment than she has to be on her way...."

Thu, 07 Jul 2011 18:03:43 -0400

““Time: what a fickle lover! No sooner do we arrive at a perfect moment than she has to be on her way. With her it’s always something: a new day, a new decade. There’s nothing she can do about it, Time insists as she slips out the door. ””

- Sy Safransky

"The reason I harass my dinner guests is that our stories have consequences, that our beliefs often..."

Wed, 27 Apr 2011 15:06:24 -0400

“The reason I harass my dinner guests is that our stories have consequences, that our beliefs often matter more than the grapes. The question is what those stories are. If the only story we can tell about wine is its price, then our pleasure will always linked to cost, even though this link doesn’t exist in most taste tests. A much better (and more cost-effective) idea is to find some other narrative, to focus on aspects of wine that don’t require a big expense account. Knowledge is free.”

- Should We Buy Expensive Wine?

tumbledore: Jay Z - “I Can’t Get Wid Dat” B-side to Jay’s...

Fri, 22 Apr 2011 15:32:39 -0400

tumbledore:

Jay Z - “I Can’t Get Wid Dat”

B-side to Jay’s first single

"Men interviewed proclaimed themselves not only unthreatened by the addition of accessories to their..."

Fri, 22 Apr 2011 15:29:33 -0400

“Men interviewed proclaimed themselves not only unthreatened by the addition of accessories to their partners’ sex lives, but downright enthusiastic.”

- Vibrators on a Shelf Near You - NYTimes.com

Photo

Tue, 22 Mar 2011 08:53:13 -0400

"Be like a duck. Remain calm on the surface and paddle like hell underneath."

Fri, 25 Feb 2011 11:14:57 -0500

“Be like a duck. Remain calm on the surface and paddle like hell underneath.”

- Michael Caine

Photo

Fri, 25 Feb 2011 11:01:06 -0500

“So Sorry - I tried to make an online purchase recently from a Canadian company, and somehow...

Fri, 25 Feb 2011 02:52:27 -0500

“So Sorry - I tried to make an online purchase recently from a Canadian company, and somehow the Canadian SPAM artists got ahold of my e-mail address. I have learned that Canada is a hotbed for SPAMMERS.”
Mass email sent from a woman I taught sailing to this summer. I smell CANUCKOPHOBIA.

the screaming ants that humans can hear

Thu, 24 Feb 2011 16:44:18 -0500

the screaming ants that humans can hear

Photo

Thu, 24 Feb 2011 16:32:40 -0500

WANT

Thu, 24 Feb 2011 03:11:00 -0500

WANT

the loneliest whale in the world

Thu, 24 Feb 2011 03:08:15 -0500

the loneliest whale in the world:

“a lonely whale with vocal problems whose love song supposedly chases lady whales away”

"It will do you no harm to find yourself ridiculous. Resign yourself to be the fool you are…"

Thu, 24 Feb 2011 03:04:53 -0500

“It will do you no harm to find yourself ridiculous.
Resign yourself to be the fool you are…”

- T.S. Eliot

"Your numbness,” my mother cries softly, “is something perhaps you cannot help. It is what the world..."

Thu, 24 Feb 2011 03:03:27 -0500

““Your numbness,” my mother cries softly, “is something perhaps you cannot help. It is what the world has done to you. But your coldness. That is what you do to the world.””

- Lorrie Moore (What is Seized)

"Any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or she is like a person..."

Thu, 24 Feb 2011 02:53:00 -0500

“Any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae.”

- Kurt Vonnegut (via nehko42)

"We meet. We try. Nothing happens but Afterwards, we are always embarrassed. When we see each other,..."

Thu, 24 Feb 2011 02:50:54 -0500

“We meet. We try. Nothing happens but
Afterwards, we are always embarrassed.
When we see each other, we look away.”

- Richard Brautigan (via patiecake)

“my summer angel keeps me on the run…” minus...

Thu, 24 Feb 2011 02:48:00 -0500

“my summer angel keeps me on the run…”

minus the bear - summer angel