July 2010
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January 2010
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“She said, ‘Here’s a big difference between you and me. You wear makeup and you...”
– Sigrid Nunez, “Sontag’s Rules” (via nightmarebrunette)
August 2009
15 posts
“To solve a crime holistically, one would need to solve the entire society in...”
– Alan Moore, quoted in ‘Murder in a foreign country’
“The audience just hasn’t seen the adventure when the Doctor goes back in...”
– Steven Moffat, San Diego, 2008 (quoted in this nice little essay that says ‘Fuck Continuity’)
July 2009
2 posts
May 2009
2 posts
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“She was gazing into the mirror at the image of a goddess and was running her...”
– Aditya Bidikar, ‘The Last Defences of Mankind’
January 2009
2 posts
“Gosse, in an often quoted passage of ‘Father and Son,’ writes of...”
– Rachel Cohen, ‘The Very Bad Review’
“Some Viking swords were among the best ever made, still fearsome weapons after a...”
– 1,000 years on, perils of fake Viking swords are revealed
November 2008
1 post
“… see how a completely paralyzed man, who could otherwise only communicate...”
– Brain-only Computer Interfaces Becoming Reality
October 2008
14 posts
“The government, which had filed written arguments in the apex court on Monday,...”
– Ram himself destroyed Sethu
“I’m assuming your ever-so-slightly abrasive tone was an unfortunate...”
– Chris Weston, ‘Fight!’
“Following the spat, the husband’s friends helped him move his wife’s...”
– Married Cambodian couple saw home in half after separation
“Never have a picture of a well-adjusted African on the cover of your book, or in...”
– How to Write About Africa
“New research says that severely brain-damaged patients in a “minimally...”
– Study Says Patients in Minimally Conscious State can also Feel Pain
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Richard Geefe: The Complete Works →
Three Months ago , The Observer began a new column, Second Class Male, by Richard Geefe. After an aborted suicide attempt, Geefe resumed his column - at the Editor’s insistence - and it was renamed Time to Go, his account of his last few months on earth before killing himself in November. The columns, which provoked fierce controversy and a vast postbag, were written by Chris Morris, one of...
“Traditional Albanian society was not exactly pro-women’s rights. Women...”
– Sworn Virgins
“In 1959, Jules Feiffer did a classic cartoon about that dynamic. In it, Superman...”
– The Myth of Superman
“If you had to sum up the past 40 years of research on the mind, you could do...”
– Could an Inner Zombie Be Controlling Your Brain?
September 2008
22 posts
“She said strange men burrowed into the apartment after dark, right through the...”
– In Delusions of Romance, Genuine Comfort
“‘Live baby cobra, rendered drunk on wine before you let it slide down your...”
– Nilanjana S. Roy, ‘Ant chutney, anyone?’
Steven Grant – Permanent Damage - 9-24-2008 →
This article should be compulsory reading for people wanting to work in comics.
A Step Up from Stealing Jobs →
Robert Heinlein Form Letter →
“For the record, if I don’t get around to writing a sequel to something...”
– Neil Gaiman, on the sixth Hitchhiker’s book
“The Controller himself displays characteristics of friends, all science-minded...”
– The Vacuum Traffic Controller
A Coloring Book That Means Business! →
Paleo-Future →
“But the coolest thing is that while I was waiting for her to finish, I found a...”
– True sex stories from readers of the Portland Mercury
