January 2012
10 posts
me: good morning, bill! how was your weekend.
bill: (smile) i went to a party. (eyebrow raise) i got a henna. (shrug). what more can you ask?
bill is a charmer.
he’s also 83.
eyes on the children: seventy percent →
eyesonthechildren:
Why Foster Care
This winter, as part of a non-profit fellowship program, I am working with a 501c3 called SFCASA, or San Francisco Court Appointed Special Advocates. Court Appointed Special Advocates are volunteer community members who work as mentors for foster children, spending time with…
“I love sweeping generalizations,” he said. “Sweeping generalizations are the key...”
– Love, and of course, he’s married to Jonathan Adler — Simon Doonan “Pass the Large Grain of Salt”
December 2011
12 posts
Men Shop in Bulk →
youmightfindyourself:
WOMEN shop, men stockpile. That’s one theory, anyway, of how men buy clothes differently from women. If women see shopping as an opportunity, a social or even therapeutic activity, the thinking goes, then men see it as a necessary evil, a moment to restock the supply closet.
At the risk of perpetuating sex stereotypes, the archetype may have been Steve Jobs. When Mr. Jobs...
“I love Los Angeles. I know a lot of people go there and they see just a huge...”
– David Lynch, Catching The Big Fish (via mlee525)
letting go
late to this, but very good— from gawande
“I once cared for a woman in her sixties who had severe chest and abdominal pain from a bowel obstruction that had ruptured her colon, caused her to have a heart attack, and put her into septic shock and renal failure. I performed an emergency operation to remove the damaged length of colon and give her a colostomy. A cardiologist stented...
The Pungent Aroma of Paranoia by Dowd
In her new memoir, Condoleezza Rice has a sentence so stunningly lame it makes you want to scream — or cry. “The fact is,” she writes, “we invaded Iraq because we believed we had run out of other options.”
kdm is very smart
The time will come when, with elation you will greet yourself arriving at your own door, in your own mirror and each will smile at the other’s welcome, and say, sit here. Eat.
for the rest…. from Derek walcott
http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/love-after-love/
November 2011
7 posts
“To be a good teacher, you have to be part stand-up comic, part door-to-door...”
– Clancy Martin in The Chronicle Review, December 2010 (via dianakimball) So true, so orienting
alwaysalmostevening:
Tossed from continent to continent, It all comes back.
Proximity.
These hands that move and nothing else.
Hidden treasure
September 2011
4 posts
1 tag
2 tags
Lapham's Quarterly: a collection of facts and... →
apparently julia childs didn’t like cilantro.
youmightfindyourself:
• As a young man studying in Amsterdam, Vincent van Gogh on August 18, 1877, wrote to his brother Theo, “I breakfasted on a piece of dry bread and a glass of beer—that is what Dickens advises for those who are on the point of committing suicide, as being a good way to keep them, at least for some time, from their...
Generation Limbo: Waiting It Out
Likewise, Amy Klein, who graduated from Harvard in 2007 with a degree in English literature, couldn’t find a job in publishing. At one point, she had applied for an editorial-assistant job at Gourmet magazine. Less than two weeks later, Condé Nast shut down that 68- year-old magazine. “So much for that job application,” said Ms. Klein, now 26.
One night she bumped into a friend, who asked her to...
August 2011
1 post
tommy's
What do you mean,
You say,
When you call a bar,
Our bar,
A democratic bar?
July 2011
2 posts
Don’t Call Me, I Won’t Call You →
from the nytimes
June 2011
3 posts
Diana Kimball: How I Get Excited →
enthusiasm.
dianakimball:
I am not a venture capitalist; I don’t invest money in new ideas as a matter of course. And yet, every day, I invest time and attention in trying out and caring about new things. How do I decide what to get excited about?
I get excited when I can see how a product will change me for the better. I learned about the
“I kiss you, my dear sweetheart— and please do not imagine that I am...”
– Nabokov, in a letter to his wife Vera, explaining why she should trust that he wasn’t cheating on her as he lectured at Southern women’s universities
Autumn 1923, as reprinted in The New Yorker
May 2011
2 posts
I Am Seeking to Destroy My Deep-Seated Cynicism... →
from McSweeny’s
April 2011
1 post
“I took out my notebook and jotted down what I’d done in the past seven...”
– Jonathan Franzen on his voice in “Farther Away”, The New Yorker
March 2011
4 posts
Starbucks and Peet's in recent deal talks: report →
nooo
When Your Life Becomes a Verb-- "to sheen" →
Choosing Self-Esteem Over Sex or Pizza →
this is so weird
February 2011
5 posts
Cellphone Use Tied to Changes in Brain Activity →
the very best tech-support forum
a woman asks how to lock her keyboard to prevent her young child from banging the keys when she’s gone and receives parenting advice:
“perhaps your relationship with your daughter is something you need to change to suit the situation.”
http://www.mac-forums.com/forums/apple-notebooks/134371-need-lock-keyboard-new-alu-macbook.html
