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“Artisanal, a word that fought early in his career to ensure recognition of...”
– Well played, Jen Doll. (via thethirdshift)
Review: Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk by Ben... →
fullstopmag:
In a cover blurb, author and Vietnam veteran Karl Marlantes (another Boomer who has monopolized the conversation about war) compares Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk to Joseph Heller’s Catch-22. But I think that’s all wrong. If anything, it should be compared to Norman Mailer’s Why Are We in Vietnam? or Don Delillo’s End Zone.
Instead of Heller’s lampooning of military bureaucracy,...
“A little insomnia is not without its value in making us appreciate sleep, in...”
– ~Marcel Proust
(via thetinhouse)
The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows: sonder →
dictionaryofobscuresorrows:
n. the realization that each random passerby is living a life as vivid and complex as your own—populated with their own ambitions, friends, routines, worries and inherited craziness—an epic story that continues invisibly around you like an anthill sprawling deep underground, with elaborate…
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“Little by little, inch by inch we built a yard with a garden in the middle of...”
Sarah Jessica Parker Is Hosting an Obama...
julioclock:
vanityfair:
“I had to wonder: who would be in his cabinet? And what would be in his medicine cabinet?”
“I had to wonder: would the three branches of government support our Jamaican sex hammock?”
“I had to wonder: were my sexual appetites too square for the Oval Office?”
[more, more, more!]
sum punz
“I’m not familiar precisely with exactly what I said, but I stand by what I said....”
– Mitt Romney, on why he’s defending… something. (via theatlantic)
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Watchbmlg:
The official lyric video for “Eyes Open” by Taylor Swift is finally here! Share it far and wide!
FRIENDS: along with some crazy talented people in my office, I helped make this video for our girl T-Sweezy. Do me a favor and pass it around? Pretty please? THANKS!
Listen to Entire Born and Raised Album for Free
jhnmyr:
click here to go to the iTunes store and stream the record now. Pre-order if you dig it.
I listened to the record last Wednesday on my flight to Los Angeles. Gave it one more go round before it went out into the world… one last little listen as being just mine. It’s brought me so much joy and company and peace, and I hope it will do the same for you.
JM
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“because when you’re done with this world, you know the next is up to you”
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“Joni wrote “Blue” in a house by the sea, I gotta believe...”
– John Mayer
“In a world thronged with monsters and with gods, we are barely conscious of...”
– Marcel Proust, À l’ombre des jeunes filles en fleurs, trans. Moncrieff and Kilmartin (via proustitute)
