Goodnight, moon. Hey there, long, dark night of the soul! (via The Millions)
“Blogs and websites are reversing 450 years of media trends” is the soundbite sentence of the surveyers.
I’m not the only one whose pace picks up in the city.
The late John McGahern’s “Creatures of the Earth” at The Guardian.
“What would you think of parents who forced their children to accept their politics, or their taste in architecture?” That they were your average parents, Mr. Dawkins. Or were you unaware that the most accurate predictor of a person’s political leanings are his parents’ political leanings?
My ex, having been my ex for some years and grown tired of being called out in the middle of the night to deal with a spider, gave me a blowtorch, which I used with desperate abandon.
You mean, embargo dates aside? Um, I hope not.
According to New York magazine’s handy chart, Bushwick is still cool–which means if you live there, you probably have some sort of horrible, rat-borne disease right now.
Also via Maud: the Unsuggester (although why you would want to find books you’d never want to read escapes me).
To compare the libidinal and intellectual energy of Casanova with that of anyone else, even Byron, is like pitching the effect of a volcanic eruption up against the rearrangement of thimbles on a shelf.
In the beginning was ardor: a handful of ambitious, attractive youths in a soundtracked montage of halcyon days and all-night editorial debauches. They toss Nerf footballs around a cavernous yet cluttered loft, back when Soho or SoMa space was practically rent-free. There are one or two broken computers, or these were the days before computers and they had to paste up their layouts on pizza boxes. The drinking has athletic intensity. Out to change the world and capture the zeitgeist, they quickly achieve the ??clat for which they were destined. Then: hubris, greed. Sale to Cond?? Nast, regret.
The two researchers found evidence that animal brains (including our own) are probably hard-wired from birth to detect the presence of other animals from simple foot motion, rather than from body shapes that would have to be learned.
Pynchon: Team McEwan (via Books Inq)