January 2010
32 posts
13 Stories by J. D. Salinger →
sarahspy:
13 stories originally published in The New Yorker between 1946-1965, now available in full online in celebration of J.D. Salinger’s life.
HPK
“Don’t believe in great men. Believe in yourself. You make the changes...”
– Naomi Klein
Writing Medicine →
QUOTE: Some writing anxiety is quite functional: it provides the edge that you need to leap into a project;
It’s useful to find out that you don’t need to wait for your anxiety to go away in order to write.
There is a joke about this problem among therapists who work with academics: that there are more efficient ways than psychoanalysis to cure writer’s block (this is what passes for humor in...
“Life is a process, not a principle, a mystery to be lived, not a problem to be...”
– Gerard Straub
WatchWelcome to the future… Keith Olbermann paints the darkest picture - and I think he’s telling the harsh, genuine truth.
HPK
“The first truth is that the liberty of a democracy is not safe
if the people...”
– FDR
Open Letter From OK Go - OK Go →
QUOTE: “The recordings and the videos we make are owned by a record label, EMI. The label fronts the money for us to make recordings – for this album they paid for us to spend a few months with one of the world’s best producers in a converted barn in Amish country wringing our souls and playing tympani and twiddling knobs – and they put up most of the cash that it takes to distribute and...
“I call the mind free which jealously guards its intellectual rights and powers,...”
– Woody Allen
Glenn Greenwald - making sense again
QUOTE: In what universe must someone be living to believe that the Democratic Party is controlled by “the Left,” let alone “the furthest left elements” of the Party? As Ezra Klein says, the Left “ha[s] gotten exactly nothing they wanted in recent months.” The Left wanted a single-payer system, then settled for a public option, then an opt-out public option, then...
“Human felicity is produc’d not so much by great pieces of good fortune that...”
– Benjamin Franklin (via nowlatersoon)
The "Dysfunctional Family" syndrome...
From the letters column at Salon…
HPK
This may seem a leap, but when I read how progressives are embracing essentially the same paradigms as conservatives, it really brings to mind the “Dysfunctional Family” syndrome.
Here’s the thing - when you are brought up in a dysfunctional family, say that of an alcoholic or abusive parent, one assumes that the reality one...
“I’ve reached an age where I’m two generations past when I was considered...”
– Stephen Sondheim, Reimagined in Chamber-Style Orchestration - NYTimes.com
