We act as if facing death weren’t one of life’s greatest, most absorbing thrills and challenges.
July 11, 2011
The Good Short Life With A.L.S. - NYTimes.com
Okay Swinton. You are awesome. Your life is wonderful. You sit and eat oysters while Jesus makes your hair look like David Bowie’s.
June 29, 2011
Lydia Encyclopidia | Okay Swinton. We get it. You are awesome. Your…
I emailed Dunn to let him know I’ve never been to Japan. “It has apparently been to you,” he replied.
June 29, 2011
Discovering my microbiome: “You, my friend, are a wonderland” | The Loom | Discover Magazine
Once you know about sitters and rovers, you see them everywhere, especially among young children.
June 28, 2011
Is Shyness an Evolutionary Tactic? - NYTimes.com
If you’re going to stay together, you need to make the same type of decision the U.S. made in 1787 to have a fiscal union.
June 27, 2011
Tipping Point For The European Union? : NPR
The worst thing in the world for an art thief would be to get stuck in traffic on the Schuylkill Expressway with a Cézanne.
June 24, 2011
The $25 billion art move - Wall Street Journal
I should say that I’m an agnostic - or, to use a term invented by the neuroscientist David Eagleman, a “possibilian”.
June 24, 2011
New Statesman - Customs of my tribe
It was almost a nostalgic moment when a few early 458s caught fire thanks to a flammable adhesive in the engine bay.
June 24, 2011
The Sum of All Its Parts - NYTimes.com
As a teenager I was often and intensely bored. No, that is not quite right. As a teenager I was often and intensely afraid.
June 22, 2011
RB and me: an education | Ruins of the 20th Century
It’s nice to see that American enterprise isn’t taking sides on the “Obama is awesome”/”Obama is the devil” debate.
June 21, 2011
Duane Reade’s Progressively More Scary Obama Birthday Cards | The Awl