“You: A canny observer in a white suit and a fine cravat. The Culture: Just waiting for someone to explain it to itself.”
—Essay - What to Write Next - Picking a Genre for Your Next Novel - NYTimes.com
October 2009
30 posts
“Pamuk has given voice to nearly every society in the world torn between the longing to be global and to be itself.”
—Secret Love in the Lost City - The New York Review of Books
“Two weeks ago, I ordered a bowl of chili. The counterman nods. “So when are you gonna review Google Wave?”
—Are You Nice or Am I Famous? - Pogue’s Posts Blog - NYTimes.com
“That little drawing, ‘The Au charbonnage café’ is really nothing special, but I couldn’t help making it.”
—BibliOdyssey: Handshakes in Thought
“His doctor told him a bump on his shoulder was a rare tumor: ‘If you have a rare tumor, you need to go where tumors are not rare.’”
—Forty Years’ War - A Place Where Cancer Is the Norm - Series - NYTimes.com
“President Barack Obama holds up a T-shirt given to him by an MIT Mechanical Engineering Professor.”
—President Barack Obama - Yahoo! News Photos
“Having a total stranger compliment my book was a rare case of what blurbing should be in the best of all worlds.”
—Why won’t you blurb me? - Salon.com
“The paradigm has shifted, the worm has turned. Eric has given up the ghost and is no longer with us.”
—Timothy McSweeney’s Internet Tendency: Short Imagined Monologues
“Bunnies culled from public parks in Stockholm were being used to fire a Swedish heating plant.”
—Weekly Review—By Theodore Ross (Harper’s Magazine)
“Devastated over the death of Gourmet? There’s still plenty of fantastic food writing and photography out there.”
—Food Writing in Magazines Is Alive and Well – Eat Me Daily
“Over the years, advances in autonomous helicopters have been many, but there’s no limit to how awesome they can get.”
—MIT takes the wrappers off autonomous, robotic helicopter with intelligent navigation
“Imagine what it’s like to have your own personal technician available to call, right here in North America.”
—FloH Club | FloH Club
“I read the Hemingway thing [The Old Man and the Sea]. Anyway, it would have been better if it hadn’t been so full of shit.”
—Norman Mailer: Letters on Writing - The New York Review of Books
“This is not Oliver Cromwell, it is his older kinsman by one of those lines of descent that excite the genealogically obsessed.”
—How It Must Have Been - The New York Review of Books
“No sound exemplified New York City 1986 more than Shinehead. He was Jamaica, London, The Bronx, Queens, and Flatbush.”
—Nicin’ up a party could lead to notariety - Keo - 12ozProphet.com
“This time that you take that actually takes some labor, you can get yourself in a harmonious place.”
—Sharon Stone’s New Turn-on: Gardening — Daily Intel
“Stopped to buy sandwich, and the woman behind the counter said, “I’m so sorry; this one’s on me.”
—ruthreichl (ruthreichl) on Twitter
“Women are no better - and no worse - at making decisions than men are. They simply have more shoes to choose from.”
—Why We Love the Shoes That Hurt Us - Room for Debate Blog - NYTimes.com
“Their LEGO avatars will presumably spend a lot of time ridding LEGO Berlin of every last granule of LEGO cocaine.”
— David Bowie goes LEGO for LEGO Rock Band | Games | A.V. Club
