April 2012
Why I Don’t Care If You Go to Graduate School →
If you think higher education and/or teaching is your life’s true work, then you’re doomed to 5-10+ years of serious disappointment and bitterness. But when you stop romanticizing self-loathing, and stop worrying about whether or not all of your “good deeds” will pay off “in the end” (on graduation day, with a tenure-track job, perhaps?), then you can actually start getting things done. What...
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Organ Trail →
“Organ Trail was an edutainment game developed in 1971. Schools across America used this game as a teaching tool to prepare children for the impending zombie apocalypse and dysentery. Re-live your childhood with this faithfully emulated version of Organ Trail for the Apple-II.”
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6 Filmmaking Tips From David Fincher →
claytoncubitt:
“How do you eat a whale? One bite at a time. How do you shoot a 150-day movie? You shoot it one day at a time.”
“I never fall in love with anything. I really don’t, I am not joking. ‘Do the best you can, try to live it down,’ that’s my motto. Just literally give it everything you got, and then know that it’s never going to turn out the way you...
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"It has again been decided that April 27th will be... →
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hat wobble →
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“Forget your personal tragedy. We are all bitched from the start and you...”
– Ernest Hemingway to F. Scott Fitzgerald, critiquing a Tender is the Night manuscript draft in a letter dated 28 May 1934. Full text posted at Letters of Note. (via sarahspy)
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"You're only being asked to pitch in because you... →
So when I say “We’re all in this together,” I’m not stating a philosophy. I’m stating a fact about the way human life works. No, you never asked for anything to be handed to you. You didn’t have to, because billions of humans who lived and died before you had already created a lavish support system where the streets are all but paved with gold. Everyone reading...
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Eliminating Words from the English Language →
The nominations piled up, in the hundreds and then the thousands. People who like words, as it turns out, also hate words. Superfluous adverbs took a beating: people unloaded on “literally” and “actually.” One woman challenged anyone to think of a case in which a deleted “actually” changed the meaning of the sentence. But there’s reason and then there’s rhythm, and “actually” is actually useful as...
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Nicholson Baker: The Mad Scientist of Smut →
A New York Times profile of novelist Nicholson Baker from August 2011
Baker’s new novel, “House of Holes,” which comes out this month, has the apt subtitle “A Book of Raunch” and is dirtier than “Vox” and “The Fermata” combined. It’s a series of loosely linked vignettes set in a sexual theme park where the attractions include Masturboats; the Porndecahedron, a 12-screen planetarium showing...
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“Confidence doesn’t come from knowing you’re right—it comes from...”
– Mike Monteiro, Design Is a Job
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Expletives Not Deleted →
Armando Iannucci, the British comedy writer and director, is short and slight, and, at forty-eight, he is going bald in the old-fashioned, uncropped way, with tufts of hair here and there. He has a soft Scottish accent and a demure, bookish manner. A scholar of John Milton, he is a former classical-music columnist for Gramophone. In recent years, he has become best known in Britain for creating...
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How To Grow A Dwarf Lime Tree Indoors →
For future reference. See also: How to Grow Herbs Indoors
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