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Wed, 30 May 2012 19:58:19 -0400

"It’s also that you’re dressing the same way your 18th century ancestors did, which..."

Tue, 29 May 2012 09:38:55 -0400

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It’s also that you’re dressing the same way your 18th century ancestors did, which implies that you’re rejecting the modern world.

There may be elements of truth to that. But the irony is that hipsters all dress a certain way, and the whole point is to dress entirely different from everyone else. Orthodox Jews actually have the courage to dress the same way as 500,000 of their brethren. They’re the ones who challenge people by asking, “Are you deep enough to look beyond my garb and relate to me as a thinking individual?” In contrast, the hipster buys into the most external of indicators: that which is immediately apparent to the eye.

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- Why Ultra-Orthodox Jews Fear the Internet - The Atlantic

"I’m not going to wear tweed in June, moron."

Tue, 22 May 2012 10:29:29 -0400

“I’m not going to wear tweed in June, moron.”

- Anon.

"INTERVIEWER Are these hours during the actual process of writing pleasurable? ERNEST HEMINGWAY..."

Mon, 14 May 2012 12:05:19 -0400

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INTERVIEWER Are these hours during the actual process of writing pleasurable?

ERNEST HEMINGWAY Very.

INTERVIEWER Could you say something of this process? When do you work? Do you keep to a strict schedule?

HEMINGWAY When I am working on a book or a story I write every morning as soon after first light as possible. There is no one to disturb you and it is cool or cold and you come to your work and warm as you write. You read what you have written and, as you always stop when you know what is going to happen next, you go on from there. You write until you come to a place where you still have your juice and know what will happen next and you stop and try to live through until the next day when you hit it again. You have started at six in the morning, say, and may go on until noon or be through before that. When you stop you are as empty, and at the same time never empty but filling, as when you have made love to someone you love. Nothing can hurt you, nothing can happen, nothing means anything until the next day when you do it again. It is the wait until the next day that is hard to get through.

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- Paris Review - The Art of Fiction No. 21, Ernest Hemingway

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Wed, 09 May 2012 16:24:25 -0400

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Tue, 08 May 2012 09:56:13 -0400

"The bailouts have become generally unpopular, in no small part because many banks seem to still view..."

Fri, 04 May 2012 08:18:06 -0400

“The bailouts have become generally unpopular, in no small part because many banks seem to still view themselves as masters of the universe. There is nothing more grating than an ungrateful welfare recipient riding around in a chauffeured Mercedes complaining that he is not being treated fairly.”

- U.S. Chose Better Path to Economic Recovery - NYTimes.com

ESPN New York

Mon, 30 Apr 2012 13:42:15 -0400

ESPN New York

"‘Stray To Be Destroyed’ Tops List Of Cat Names For 24th Straight Year"

Sun, 29 Apr 2012 20:06:44 -0400

“‘Stray To Be Destroyed’ Tops List Of Cat Names For 24th Straight Year”

- The Onion

Riding the Subway with Stanley Kubrick

Fri, 27 Apr 2012 15:31:38 -0400

Riding the Subway with Stanley Kubrick:

plus ça change…

Bear falls safely from tree after police tranquilize it

Fri, 27 Apr 2012 12:37:14 -0400

Bear falls safely from tree after police tranquilize it

"Baseball is often talked about as the American game, but there is something wildly immigrant about..."

Sun, 15 Apr 2012 22:03:16 -0400

“Baseball is often talked about as the American game, but there is something wildly immigrant about it too. No other game can so solidly confirm the fact that you are in the United States, yet bring you home to your original country at the same time. If soccer is the world’s game, then baseball belongs to those who have left their worlds behind. This is not so much nostalgia as it a sense of saudade — a longing for something that is absent.”

- What Baseball Does to the Soul - NYTimes.com

1,000 days they walked. Left in Asia, they were. RIP

Sat, 31 Mar 2012 00:08:49 -0400

1,000 days they walked.

Left in Asia, they were.

RIP

Nigeria - Nneka - Heartbeat (by idamawatu)

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 11:41:18 -0400

Nigeria - Nneka - Heartbeat (by idamawatu)

Group H of the 2012 Asian Champions League features the...

Sun, 25 Mar 2012 22:37:02 -0400

Group H of the 2012 Asian Champions League features the title-holders from Japan, China and South Korea but it is Buriram United, a team virtually unknown outside Thailand, who are sitting pretty with a maximum of six points and causing a few people to revise their opinion about football in the Land of Smiles. (via John Duerden: A tall Thai tale - ESPN Soccernet)

"“You want to hang out?” “Isn’t that what we’re doing?” “Elsewhere,” I said. “In the future. On a..."

Sun, 25 Mar 2012 13:34:37 -0400

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“You want to hang out?”

“Isn’t that what we’re doing?”

“Elsewhere,” I said. “In the future. On a ‘date.’ ”

“Don’t do it with air-quotes.”

“On a date,” I said.

“I’ve never been on a date.”

“Few have,” I said. “Let alone with me.”

“Where would we go?”

“Denny’s,” I said.

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- http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/25/books/review/hot-pink-stories-by-adam-levin.html

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Wed, 21 Mar 2012 09:48:18 -0400

Messi

Wed, 14 Mar 2012 13:45:00 -0400

Messi

Secret To Happiness: An abiding awareness that life is a series...

Mon, 12 Mar 2012 12:16:20 -0400

Secret To Happiness: An abiding awareness that life is a series of profound absurdities that are beyond his control and, more importantly, not his fault.

(The 25 Happiest Animals In The World)

(“The Women of The Future,” according to 1902 French...

Thu, 08 Mar 2012 16:58:56 -0500

(“The Women of The Future,” according to 1902 French trading cards)