January 2009
31 posts
“Plane travel is much more agreeable when you have an entire row of seats to...”
– Best flight ever.
“I’m back from Bali and the Gili Islands!”
– It’s great to be home!
Asha Bhosle: Tum Jo Mile (from KCRW’s...
Bushisms over the years →
thecrossroads:
“There’s an old saying in Tennessee — I know it’s in Texas, probably in Tennessee — that says, fool me once, shame on — shame on you. Fool me — you can’t get fooled again.”
— Sept. 17, 2002, in Nashville, Tenn.”
It’s so easy to reference rock songs in everyday conversation, isn’t it?
Ah aym Charrrlutt Seymons
miss-r:
I started reading Tom Wolfe’s I Am Charlotte Simmons because a guy I know told me a couple of years ago that the title character reminded him of me.
Charlotte Simmons being the height of beauty, intelligence and, as Tina Brown put it, “innocent vitality”, this might seem a great compliment… were it not that she’s also naive, sanctimonious, vain and severely lacking in self-knowledge.
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Paintings in desperate need of attention
Image - ‘Saint Cecilia’ (detail)
This is a plea from the gallery to rescue two significant paintings which are in desperate need of conservation. An astonishing story: Saint Cecilia (formerly attributed to Annibale Carracci) and Venus and Adonis (once thought to be by Titian) have recently been uncovered from storage having disappeared from public view when the gallery re-opened...
“Getting fucked over by Virgin Pacific Blue and missing your flight $734.00...”
– Waste of a day. Now leaving wednesday.
Frivolous URL Registration
I registered moleculedumbdumb.com a couple of years ago but predictably never used it. At around $12 its hard to resist. Will I renew the registration? Probably not, unless we get a brilliant idea.
Purchase was inspired by this image of kid’s monster drawings c.1970. Thanks Billy.
“Everyone has three lives: a public life, a private life, and a secret life.”
– Gabriel García Márquez
(via tloenuqbar) (via samsally) (via sailingonthesea) (via nicotobares) (via reckon) (via mentalillness) (via babypanda) (via bellechoses) (via sympathyfortheartgallery)
“Creative work only seems like a magic trick to people who don’t understand that...”
– I wanted to buy this but didn’t dare. I will regret this. Merlin Mann in The Problem with “Feeling Creative. Merlin summarizes why I love his writing in 18 words. (via viafrank) (via sympathyfortheartgallery)
“Some people are rude because they are shy, others because they are stupid. Some...”
“Venice had taught me that logic is of little use in life, just as intellect is...”
– Juan Manuel de Prada. The Tempest p188.
“I don’t want to live someone else’s idea of how to live. Don’t ask me to do...”
– Karen Blixen. Out of Africa (via robot-heart)
One of my favourite authors. Her writing is like a sea breeze in the desert.
December 2008
79 posts
Small is beautiful in this age of austerity: The... →
somethingchanged:
“For the past decade, the nation’s biggest museums have relied on blockbuster exhibitions featuring numerous well-loved masterpieces to attract visitors.
But now a leading director is urging galleries to rethink the way in which major shows are staged by offering up a single work of art rather than the usual rooms crammed full of gilt-framed Monets, Turners and...