February 2012
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I have an adage: “To do the thing is easy enough, but to put yourself in a...
– —CARL ANDRE in an interview with Michèle Gerber Klein and Phong Bui
via: The Brooklyn Rail
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Koyaanisqatsi in five minutes →
via: kottke
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Proposition 8 served no purpose, and had no effect, other than to lessen the...
– Circuit Judge Stephen Reinhardt
via: jessethorn
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Komen cuts grants for Planned Parenthood cancer... →
jessicavalenti reports:
I’m sure that most folks know by now that Susan G. Komen for the Cure, a breast cancer charity and advocacy organization, announced that they were cutting funding to Planned Parenthood for cancer screenings. In the last five years, the money from Komen allowed PP to provide almost 170,000 breast exams and 6,400 mammogram referrals…whether the organization pulled...
January 2012
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Wrapping female identities so thoroughly around motherhood or lack thereof is...
– from: A Woman Is Not An Incubator by s.e. smith
via: xoJane
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Works like the infinity room — which over about a half hour will gradually cycle...
– Doug Wheeler Builds ‘Infinity Environment’ at David Zwirner
via: NYTimes
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Every Year, JSTOR Turns Away 150 Million Attempts... →
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David Sedaris Is As Awesome As Everybody Hoped |... →
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hey sunshine and seventy degrees. up go the windows.
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retromania: a roundtable with ann powers, carl... →
December 2011
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The landscapes were in my arms as I did it…I didn’t realize all that I was...
– Helen Frankenthaler, 1928-2011
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One teacher's approach to preventing gender...
“It’s Okay to be Neither,” By Melissa Bollow Tempel
via: togetherforjacksoncountykids
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In the end and at the end, Hitchens made me feel braver about most things, and...
– —John Hodgman
via: areasofmyexpertise
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Valentine’s Day: sculptor De Wain Valentine and... →
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I Am Much Too Alone in This World, Yet Not Alone →
I am much too small in this world, yet not small enough to be to you just object and thing, dark and smart.
—Rainer Maria Rilke
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I think that the kind of pleasure I would consider as the real pleasure would be...
– Michel Foucault, from a 1983 interview collected in Politics, Philosophy, Culture (via proustitute)
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In defense of the MLS (Sort of) | You Ought to be... →
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The Rumpus Interview With Jóhann Jóhannsson →
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The more students borrow, the more they have to pay back—and, thus, the poorer...
– —Leonard Cassuto on why Graduate Student Debt Matters
via: The Chronicle of Higher Education
November 2011
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I don’t know who said that novelists read the novels of others only to...
– Gabriel Garcia Marquez Meets Ernest Hemingway
[note: an old, beautiful piece i’ve read before, but is being passed around again for some reason. regardless, it’s lovely to read again. marquez remains one of my absolute favorite writers. his words bloom.]
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