February 2011
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January 2011
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Jan 31st
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Six Degrees of Lois Weisberg by Malcolm Gladwell... →
She’s a grandmother, she lives in a big house in Chicago, and you’ve never heard of her. Does she run the world? Everyone who knows Lois Weisberg has a story about meeting Lois Weisberg, and although she has done thousands of things in her life and met thousands of people, all the stories are pretty much the same. This article changed my life. I first read it in The New Kings of...
Jan 31st
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security blankets
Whenever I read histories of World War II or of countries with great political disruption (the Burundian or Cambodian genocide; the French Revolution), the most unnerving thing is how material wealth doesn’t really do a lot for you. If you want your wealth to mean something, you have four options: 1) Lie, and tell the invading army you’re on their side, throw them parties, and let them...
Jan 31st
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“You gotta do it before you’re ready.”
– Ken Schatz’ advice to Jess Hodge on moving to New York.
Jan 30th
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Well: How Meditation May Change the Brain (New... →
“The main idea is to use different objects to focus one’s attention, and it could be a focus on sensations of breathing, or emotions or thoughts, or observing any type of body sensations,” she said. “But it’s about bringing the mind back to the here and now, as opposed to letting the mind drift.” I remember first learning about meditation from my friend Kumar who gently explained that the whole...
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New York Times: Revolutionary Arab Geeks →
Go kids, go. Am I even this brave?
Jan 28th
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CNN: "'Tiger mothers' leave lifelong scars'"... →
(via halasigue) Be nice to your kids, yo.
Jan 24th
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Listenalexawilkinson: OK KIDS! HERE IT IS! It’s the...
Jan 21st
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“I re-read you, always for another first time.”
– Natalie Clifford Barney (from a history on the provocative Barney — who was an American-French lesbian feminist and writer — called Wild Heart: A Life by Suzanne Rodriguez .)
Jan 20th
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Disunion: a New York Times serial which follows... →
One-hundred-and-fifty years ago, Americans went to war with themselves. Disunion revisits and reconsiders America’s most perilous period — using contemporary accounts, diaries, images and historical assessments to follow the Civil War as it unfolded.
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“The person who speaks ‘against’ has nothing to say. Why destroy when...”
– Natalie Clifford Barney, American-French feminist, salonist, writer, and (out) lesbian from the late 1800s early 1900s.
Jan 17th
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Jan 17th
Kickstarter! $8,000!
Dear everybody, I am utterly, utterly at a loss for how to accurately impart my gratitude and humility and SHOCK at your help with this project and my efforts to do so will ultimately end up as a run-on sentence. Thank you. $8,000 means I can do a few more than 4 or 5 songs. That’s pretty rad. I’ve always had a faith in the relationship between creativity and community, and this...
Jan 16th
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WatchWatch
I know most of you are sick of this SORRY. I have 33 hours left with my Kickstarter EP project. I’m at $6,532 of a $5,000 goal! Donate $10 to get the EP (or record, depending on how much money I get) when it’s finished! You’re gonna be helping so many Brooklyn musicians who I will pay for this make rent! Oh man!
Jan 14th
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katelynfarriella asked: i want one so bad!
Jan 14th
katelynfarriella asked: i want one so bad!
Jan 14th
“Because if this is gonna be a Christian nation that doesn’t help the poor,...”
– Stephen Colbert (via graphicalundertones) Amen.
Jan 13th
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“Expression is living. Suppression is dying, or worse.”
– Oscar Wilde (to Alice Pike Barney*) *from Barney’s memoirs and the biography Wild Heart: Natalie Clifford Barney by Suzanne Rodriguez.
Jan 10th
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Herald Sun: Missy Higgins Goes Back to School for... →
Higgins, enjoying downtime between albums, enrolled at Melbourne Uni for a course in indigenous studies. When most of her friends were at uni, Higgins, 27, was backpacking in Europe and writing the songs that would be on her No.1 debut, The Sound of White. “Going to uni was a totally new experience for me, so that in itself was pretty fascinating,” Higgins says. Higgins says the...
Jan 9th
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“I’d rather be smart than a movie star.”
– Natalie Portman (via Kiko) I THINK I LOVE HER.
Jan 9th
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