September 2008
21 posts
A Year of Heavy Losses →
“When you think you’re not thinking about something, you probably are”
– Prototype - We’ll Fill This Space, but First a Nap - NYTimes.com
The end of American capitalism as we knew it →
KQ: bones is totally MY show
it has all of the things I love
and addresses all the of the stuff I get angry about in the world
and still has love and friendship and dark humor
I am like some kind of dope who cares a lot about a show!
what happened to me?
KQ: there is science and toughness and honor and caring and room for spirituality and a sense of indignance against many evils of the world created by various cultures!
it's the tv show version of me
lawrence (added in reblog): i feel the same way about tv shows now. i think it's ok. it just means that people have gotten really good at creating moving experiences through the medium of television. we still have to be vigilant so that advertising doesn't eat our brains, but it's basically ok. in the expressiveness of the modern media lie buried the tools of enlightenment. :)
His project will really make a difference in... →
“Some new American beginning is needed.”
– The King Is Dead
“A hero ventures forth from the world of common day into a region of supernatural...”
– Monomyth - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
“You can’t reason someone out of his or her feelings. But you can validate those...”
– FiveThirtyEight.com: Electoral Projections Done Right: Dems Must Give Voters Explicit Permission To Like Palin
Trying →
“If the world were merely seductive… that would be easy. If it were merely...”
– E.B. White (via askjerves)
“Because here’s something else that’s weird but true: in the day-to...”
– David Foster Wallace - Commencement Speech at Kenyon College
“In the course of his 40-year travelling life he went the equivalent of ten times...”
– Ian Hibell | Economist.com
Games Without Frontiers: How Videogames Blind Us... →
“We can take advantage of our cognitive surplus, but only if we start regarding...”
– Edge: GIN, TELEVISION, AND COGNITIVE SURPLUS A Talk By Clay Shirky
The Age of Awareness →
“But most issues are not confrontations between virtue and vice. Most...”
– Op-Ed Columnist - What the Palin Pick Says - Op-Ed - NYTimes.com