February 2012
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“A Rhode Island teen is learning that it pays to deny the existence of God:...”
– Yay! 44 THOUSAND. “It pays to deny the existence of God“—! I know that’s basically the point of every story in the business and politics sections, but it’s nice to see it in other parts of the paper for a change. (Context!)(Related!)
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“My first novel for adult readers! Funny and baaad, Sandy Pressman was raised to...”
– Judy Blume, from an “Author’s Commentary” for her first novel for adults Wifey, published in 1978 (“the first novel by Blume to directly address adult lives and sexuality”). I just really love the idea that after she published it, she began hearing from “old...
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Patton Oswalt on The Treatment →
Took me a while to get to this, but Elvis Mitchell and Patton Oswalt have a really pleasant, relaxed conversation— Patton’s not really promoting anything, so the conversation drifts around from James Joyce to donuts. It’s more “how do you be an artist in the world” talk, than funny ha-ha talk so caveat all your emptors there.
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“If an art form is marginalized it’s because it’s not speaking to people. One...”
– David Foster Wallace. (c/o, c/o tumblr).
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“I suppose it made sense, when blogging was new, that there was some confusion...”
– From Maud Newton writing about David Foster Wallace in the NY Times. I have-been/am/probably-will-be sort of, you know, totally “guilty” of almost all of these, folks…!
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Cheddar Apple Pie Ice Cream
hopelarson:
This is a very mild cheddar-flavored ice cream with small bits of pie crust and sweet, gooey apple pie filling.
Recipe after the break!
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“It’s hard to cheer when a newspaper closes. Even one you’re slightly...”
– Charlie Brooker. ”serialised Necronomicon”-!
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“At 9, he settled a dispute with a pistol. At 13, he lit out for the Amazon...”
– John Fairfax, Who Rowed Across Oceans, Dies at 74 - NYTimes.com —This may be the only use of “apprenticed to a pirate” outside of Gilbert & Sullivan. Better still, it’s non-fiction. (via douglaswolk)
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“You run through your top ten erotic fantasies, ambition fantasies, revenge...”
– Leonard Cohen on Meditation, from Sarah Hampson’s interview with Leonard Cohen in Shambhala Sun.
(via francoise, if in paris)
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“We don’t need any more superhero films. Especially not pretentious ones....”
– Charlie Brooker.
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“The producers of the $75 million Broadway musical Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark...”
– Do you know what I would do with $9,750 a week? I would spend a portion of it on goods and services, and save the rest. I lack imagination, which is why Julie Taymor is the one getting the big bucks, I guess. She would take one look at my humdrum life and says, “Hoo-wee, let’s put an...
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“It may be tasteless when a rapper pops up on MTV wearing so much bling he might...”
– Charlie Brooker.
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