January 2012
7 posts
Once upon a time in the dead of winter in the Dakota Territory, Theodore...
– David McCullough (via Full Stop)
1 tag
resolutions.
1. Per Abe Lincoln, “whatever you are, be a good one.”
2. Stop wasting time. As such, this blog, which has for the past 3 years been mainly a repository for pictures of Carl Sagan and videos of Persian cats eating stuff, will start becoming a place where I maybe actually work on my writing and stuff, or work on stuff that is related to my writing and stuff. None of you care, of...
Jeff Tweedy forecasts the weather - WGN →
December 2011
20 posts
Killing Orson Welles at Midnight by Zadie Smith |... →
Finally saw The Clock yesterday; thanks for being smarter than me, Zadie Smith.
D'awww.
Venture to say that hand-holding, though it may be of the awkward off-kilter elbow bent height discrepancy sort, has never been so nice.
Amadi Talks: Siri Failures, Illustrated →
amaditalks:
The recent illustrations of Siri, the iPhone 4S voice-recognition based assistant, failing to provide information to users about abortion, birth control, help after rape and help with domestic violence has gotten a lot of notice. Yesterday’s post with screenshots from a Twitter conversation I was…
Well, that’s not great.
November 2011
25 posts
How do you talk to the real person whose ghost has haunted you? How do you tell...
– Sherman Alexie, “Tonto and the Lone Ranger Fistfight in Heaven.”
‘The Umbrella Man’ - NYTimes.com →
Open Letter to Chancellor Linda P.B. Katehi |... →
“Approximate Directions to a Burial” by Dave... →
Paris Review - The Art of Fiction No. 135, Don... →
I don’t like Don DeLillo but, well, you know.