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Even dead writers get the blues.
“The first draft of everything is shit.” -Ernest Hemingway. “The first thing I do in the morning is brush my teeth and sharpen my tongue.” -Dorothy Parker. “We do not believe in ourselves until...
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Three lives/Distortions.
“The topic of privacy and what you do and don’t write on your blog–both your personal blog and a workplace blog–interests me as a question of privacy, but also of voice, of how bloggers present...
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The form of things that must be attended to.
“Man has been here 32,000 years. That it took a hundred million years to prepare the world for him is proof that that is what it was done for. I suppose it is. I dunno. If the Eiffel tower were now...
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The magnificent bastards of SCIENCE.
And who’s the craziest, most bad ass, most magnificent and underrated (yes, underrated) science bastard of all time? Nikola Fucking Tesla. Hey, I wouldn’t mind having David Bowie play me in a movie....
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Yes/No/As Above/So Be Low.
Seeing the invisible. Space shuttle docked at Space Station looks like a tattoo on the sun. The ghost cinema of Norwich. What else is on during Shark Week? Can Pluto become a planet again? As above,...
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The intimidating and impenetrable fog.
“Writers take words seriously – perhaps the last professional class that does – and they struggle to steer their own through the crosswinds of meddling editors and careless typesetters and obtuse and...
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“A rather tawdry device.”
“A rather tawdry device” is how Orson Welles describes “Rosebud” in his Citizen Kane, saying that it’s the part of the film he’s least happy with, and then he refers to it as a “Freudian gag.” This is...
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The summer so far.
Mad linkage: This is going to be awkward. Jon Hamm will direct Mad Men‘s season 5 premiere (in 2012). Terrorist “pre-crime” detector field tested. The wisdom of crowds is a dangerous, stupid thing. Of...
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