June 2011
5 posts
May 2011
6 posts
Watchrufustfirefly:
THIS IS WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE WHEN NEW YORK GETS DRUNK!
ohmygod. this.
January 2011
3 posts
sarzha:
Mountain Man - “Animal Tracks”
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You Should Date An Illiterate Girl « Thought... →
November 2010
1 post
October 2010
8 posts
“I Want to Hold Your Hand,” Chris...
If you worship money and things, if they are where you tap real meaning in life, then you will never have enough, never feel you have enough. It’s the truth. Worship your body and beauty and sexual allure and you will always feel ugly. And when time and age start showing, you will die a million deaths before they finally grieve you. On one level, we all know this stuff already. It’s...
“Once a little boy sent me a charming card with a little drawing on it. I loved...”
– Maurice Sendak (via ricevinegar, loveratomic)
September 2010
3 posts
August 2010
5 posts
“Is she dying?” one of the sisters asked me. I didn’t know how to answer the question. I wasn’t even sure what the word “dying” meant anymore. In the past few decades, medical science has rendered obsolete centuries of experience, tradition, and language about our mortality, and created a new difficulty for mankind: how to die.
Letting Go, Atul Gawande (The New Yorker)
Saddest Photo Evar
imaweird:
July 2010
5 posts
domesticity
in lab i’m currently studying the viability of an in vitro coculture system—basically whether the two kinds of cells i dump unceremoniously together in a dish can tolerate one another. recent findings have been surprising. my preliminary hypothesis (nursed from an underdeveloped undergraduate’s point of view) proposes that, contrary to prior belief that one cell type releases...
June 2010
20 posts
Not all about Nabokov, but something he would have... →
“Of special interest to readers of this magazine might be Vladimir Nabokov’s copy of ‘Fifty-five Short Stories from The New Yorker, 1940-1950’… Nabokov was also a professor of literature, and in his copy of the New Yorker anthology he gave every story a letter grade. The way he wrote each grade in the table of contents next to the story’s title carried the authority of one...
TRANS-1, 10 POINT: This typeface refreshes itself continuously on the screen, words being replaced by their synonyms. Now autumn begins exists only for long enough to bring present fall commences into existence, which instantly disappears to make room for gift descend embarks, which dies so that talent alight boards ship can live. Trans-1’s creator, IS Bely (1972-), said that he hoped the typeface...
Noam Elkies
Math professor: Who is that?
Student: Jay-Z
Math professor: Jesus?
What was the inspiration for the piece included in the “20 Under 40” series?
It’s an excerpt from a novel, “Great House,” that will be published in October. There are four voices in the book; the one in this piece belongs to a writer, Nadia, who is addressing a judge, or at least someone she calls “Your Honor.” For years, I’d imagined writing a novel based on one of my favorite films, “Three...
