The Editors' Desk
July 2009
17 posts
“This 1974 interview in Soho by a couple of early Interview contributors is almost unwatchable. Almost.”
—greg.org: the making of: The Sound Of One Hand Patting Itself On The Back
“There are more board-certified black cardiologists than there are black professional basketball players.”
—Breaking the Silence - The New York Times
“Guys, what if the statement had read, ‘Jamba Juice stands with David Rees against the tyranny of American hegemony!’”
—www.mnftiu.cc » Blog Archive » Jamba Juice Statement
“We’re all gay boxers. We come to fight. And this gives you a chance to meet the guy behind the I.M. chat window.”
—Out.com Features | Cinderella Men
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“He was telling me, ‘My favorite writer in the world is Oscar Wao.’ And I was dying because I knew he meant Oscar Wilde. That’s where the book began.”
—Guernica / Nerdsmith
“Hmmm. The head of the most important science organization says educating the public is time consuming and ‘can be tedious.’”
— genomeboy.com | The tedium is the message
“Caravan, which went live in July, is a “house swap for commercial creatives and those working in advertising, media, fashion, art and design.”
—LOOK: Short Term Shelter for Artists | GOOD
“For “Doomed,” Burden installed himself under glass in the MCA Chicago, and refused to communicate or move until someone made a gesture to help him.”
—greg.org: the making of: Chris Burden’s B-Car
“The only thing they really argued with me about was calling it Godfather Part II. It was ironic, because that started the whole numbers thing. I started a lot of things.”
—Francis Ford Coppola Interview - Coppola on Wine, Godfather, Scorsese, Sopranos - Esquire
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“104 years ago, Wilbur and Orville Wright managed to coax their spruce biplane off the North Carolina sand for twelve seconds.”
—Brief aural history: WNYC - Radiolab » The Wright Brothers
“Commentator John McDonough recalls the last great reunion of Civil War veterans from the North and South.”
—Remembering Last Reunion Of Civil War Veterans : NPR
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“The most convincing scientific progress in psychiatry in the past decade has had little to do with genomics.”
—Eric Kandel: A Biology of Mind | Newsweek Science | Newsweek.com
