Sunday, April 21, 2024
Saturday, April 20, 2024
no. 782
“Jazz is the only unhampered, unhindered expression of complete freedom yet produced in this country.”
Duke Ellington
no. 781
Alvy Singer: I'm so tired of spending evenings making fake insights with people who work for "Dysentery."
Robin: "Commentary."
Alvy Singer: Oh really? I had heard that "Commentary" and "Dissent" had merged and formed "Dysentery."
From the movie, “Annie Hall”
Tuesday, April 16, 2024
Sunday, April 14, 2024
Saturday, April 13, 2024
no. 778
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
Christopher Hitchens
Monday, April 8, 2024
no. 777
My wife is gone, my girl is gone,
my books are loaned, my clothes
are worn, I gave away a car; and
all that happened years ago.
Mind & matter, love & space
are frail as foam on beer.
—Gary Snyder
Friday, April 5, 2024
no. 776
If you want to write, you must write every single day of your life. You must read dreadful dumb books & glorious books. You must lurk in libraries & climb the stacks like ladders to sniff books like perfumes & wear books like hats upon your crazy heads.
Ray Bradbury
Sunday, March 24, 2024
no. 775
“I work really hard to not ever think about my place in the world.
I'm aware of my good fortune. I'm very aware of it, and I'm very aware that, because of it, people offer me things. Opportunities to do extraordinary things. The ones that are interesting to me are collaborations. I get to work with people who 10 years ago I wouldn't have dreamed to have been able to work with. And that's a big change professionally, and it's something that I think about a lot. How can I creatively have fun, do some interesting stuff, not repeat myself? Have fun. Play in a creative way.”
–Anthony Bourdain
Wednesday, March 13, 2024
Tuesday, March 12, 2024
Monday, March 11, 2024
no. 772
Worth revisiting during this Election season:
Luke 4: 5-8 And the devil took him up and showed him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time, 6 and said to him, “To you I will give all this authority and their glory, for it has been delivered to me, and I give it to whom I will. 7 If you, then, will worship me, it will all be yours.” 8 And Jesus answered him, “It is written, ‘You shall worship the Lord your God, and him only shall you serve.’”
Saturday, March 9, 2024
Sunday, February 25, 2024
Monday, February 19, 2024
Wednesday, February 7, 2024
no. 768
“I love how all the movies about teenagers have to be set in the 90s or earlier otherwise we’d just be watching kids on their phones for two hours”
Cooper Lawrence
Sure, it’s a little you-kids-get-off-my-lawn, but that doesn’t make it any less funny or true.
Saturday, February 3, 2024
no. 766
“When you start thinking about what people like, you start thinking about what people expect. Then you start pandering to people’s expectations. Then you start talking about yourself in the third person. I learned very early on not to think about that. You go out there and do the best you can, and you do things that are interesting to you. Hopefully it will be interesting to other people. I don’t want to be adequate. I’d rather fail gloriously making something strange, awesome but ultimately a failure.”
–Anthony Bourdain
Wednesday, January 31, 2024
no. 765
“No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.”
Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter
Sunday, January 7, 2024
no. 764
“Just as the orator marks his good things by a dramatic pause, or by raising and lowering his voice, or by gesture, so the writer marks his epigrams with italics, setting the little gem, so to speak, like a jeweler.”
~Oscar Wilde (recorded by Frank Harris)
I am amused that this was written without the use of italics.
Wednesday, January 3, 2024
no. 763
“Humanity… was nothing but the thin residue left when you subtracted the baffled chimp.”
From “The Long War” by Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter