July 2011
1 post
“We act as if facing death weren’t one of life’s greatest, most absorbing thrills...”
– The Good Short Life With A.L.S. - NYTimes.com
June 2011
19 posts
“Okay Swinton. You are awesome. Your life is wonderful. You sit and eat oysters...”
– 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...”
– 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...”
– Is Shyness an Evolutionary Tactic? - NYTimes.com
“If you’re going to stay together, you need to make the same type of...”
– Tipping Point For The European Union? : NPR
“The worst thing in the world for an art thief would be to get stuck in traffic...”
– The $25 billion art move - Wall Street Journal
“I should say that I’m an agnostic - or, to use a term invented by the...”
– New Statesman - Customs of my tribe
“It was almost a nostalgic moment when a few early 458s caught fire thanks to a...”
– 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...”
– RB and me: an education | Ruins of the 20th Century
“It’s nice to see that American enterprise isn’t taking sides on the...”
– Duane Reade’s Progressively More Scary Obama Birthday Cards | The Awl
“As physicians, we learn to identify disease and treat it. What we’re not always...”
– The Triumph of New-Age Medicine - Magazine - The Atlantic
“Reich had so much fame and scientific respect that he could get Albert Einstein...”
– Book Review: Adventures in the Orgasmatron - WSJ.com
“What happened on that futon on Great Jones had been a failed attempt; the young...”
– Guernica / My First Time, Twice
“Concerns about Twitter’s ephemerality are generally based on a notion of...”
– Is Twitter writing, or is it speech? Why we need a new paradigm for our social media platforms » Nieman Journalism Lab » Pushing to the Future of Journalism
“My troubles started when I learned to play the trumpet and hadn’t learned...”
– A Playboy Interview With Miles Davis
“One thing you can’t see on a TV news report is the sound of a flood.”
– 3quarksdaily: Emergency Management
“The rangers have the respect of cattle rustlers; they know this because a...”
– Texas Still Has Its Rustlers, and Men in White Hats Chasing Them - NYTimes.com
“Do you know why St. John’s always wins at croquet? Because it’s a...”
– With Mallets Toward None - Chronicle of Higher Education
“Spiritual scientists, especially those who are atheists, consider themselves...”
– Finding the Sacred in the Secular | Big Questions Online
“Who are you, reader, reading my poems an hundred years hence? / I cannot send...”
– The Gardener 85 by Rabindranath Tagore : The Poetry Foundation [poem]
May 2011
26 posts
“What should pagans take away from this movie? Certainly not mythological...”
– The Trouble with Loki < Killing the Buddha
“America’s finest prose is littered with so many dashes among the dots...”
– Em dashes—why writers should use them more sparingly. - By Noreen Malone - Slate Magazine
“Surprisingly, Alexis told me, the asexual community has found little support...”
– Kitsch Magazine - I’d Rather Eat Cake
“I’m glad we have our Lincolns, our Cézannes. Stubborn people with original...”
– Nature’s Secret: Why Honey Bees Are Better Politicians Than Humans : Krulwich Wonders… : NPR
“The message is basically this: Do not wait to get any support from the White...”
– Reaction in Arab Capitals to Obama’s Speech Is Mixed - NYTimes.com
“Literature isn’t given. It takes. It isn’t protected. It protects....”
– Dale Peck Says Writers and Readers Must Fight Against Publishing Industry - The Daily Beast
“David only ordered push-ups if I openly doubted myself. And at the beginning,...”
– The French Open and the tennis coach who pushed me just hard enough — Alan Siegel — The Good Men Project Magazine
“In gay pounds, I’m Precious.”
– Treats Without Calories? Imagine That - New York Times
“Kayla Hoffman may have been the happiest student on the Alabama campus on the...”
– On April 27 the most devastating tornado - 05.23.11 - SI Vault
“How can each of us be our own godfather? The answer is to shuck the naiveté of...”
– Commit Yourself - Reason Magazine
“Salvadoran soldiers were taught counterinsurgency operations, many with names...”
– Guernica / Under the Volcano
“After you said “get cancer” did you really think I was looking to...”
– Don’t have a cow, man—By Judd Apatow and Mark Brazill (Harper’s Magazine)
“That young women have a right to select their own partners is still regarded in...”
– Child Brides - Pictures, More From National Geographic Magazine
“I remember being most concerned about the effect of what I might have said to...”
– Peter Lieberson’s Path as a Composer - NYTimes.com
“It feels like I’m being electrocuted all the time. It sucks.”
– A Game of Tag | FBI | Fortean Times
“It’s time for me to just fade away for a while. People are going to be really...”
– A Visit From the Goon Squad Author Jennifer Egan on Reaping Awards and Dodging Literary Feuds — Vulture
“In New York there isn’t time to be nice. In Kansas City, people have the...”
– Joe Blogs: Home in Capital Letters
“Fisseha would like to pursue a soccer career, but my husband and I worry about...”
– Lives - The Flying Son - NYTimes.com
“Maybe that’s the secret to most Mexican beer. There’s no finish, so...”
– Mexican beer’s best asset? Nostalgia
“Hyppolyte de Saujon, wife of Comte de Boufflers, celebrated mistress of the...”
– David Hume and the Art of Living - NYTimes.com
“Even the most jaded Insane Clown Posse Movie Review critic probably did not...”
– The Insane Clown Posse Reviews Water For Elephants | Videogum
“The South… I loved it as only one who will always be outside it can....”
– Paris Review - Mister Lytle: An Essay, John Jeremiah Sullivan
“I had rather be rent in pieces with wild horses, than any such translation by my...”
– 400 Years of the KJV Bible - The Barnes & Noble Review
“It’s heartbreaking to watch teammates clearly suffer a concussion, only to be...”
– Letting Go Of Lacrosse: Catherine Varner’s Story « The Concussion Blog
“Everyone seemed to be confusing the occasion with other times that they’d...”
– Outside the White House, A Celebration of Osama bin Laden’s Death - The Atlantic
“At Christmas, we had maybe one orange. But I had my freedom.”
– The big cheese: The crazy life of Gérard Depardieu - Profiles, People - The Independent
April 2011
13 posts
“If this were a century and a half ago, I’d probably have opted to bring...”
– Print - Walking the Border - Esquire
“You need to have two wines, so instead of saying, ‘Do you like my wine?’ you can...”
– Royal Wedding Wine May Be Bubbly and English - New York Times
“The only people with time to read are women and rich people.”
– In Which The Basic Reason Was William Faulkner Needed Money - Home - This Recording
“Our quick-fire emotions can set us on a course of thinking that’s highly...”
– The Science of Why We Don’t Believe Science | Mother Jones