January 2012
76 posts
“I Can See Clearly, Now” - Jimmy...
“Genius” - Inara George
Everybody...
“Joining a Fan Club” - Jellyfish
eggcorn
Wikipedia:
In linguistics, an eggcorn is an idiosyncratic substitution of a word or phrase for a word or words that sound similar or identical in the speaker’s dialect. The new phrase introduces a meaning that is different from the original, but plausible in the same context, such as “old-timers’ disease” for “Alzheimer’s disease”.[1] This is as opposed...
“Reminiscing” - Little River Band
lisasho on the road: Small World →
lisashontheroad:
When I was 13 years old, my parents, sister and I were wandering around the Museo Nacional del Prado in Madrid, Spain, when I spotted my summer camp counselor from the States.
“Mom. I see someone I know over there.”
“No you don’t,” she responded, without looking away from a painting that had caught her eye. “We’re in Spain, for goodness’ sake.”
“No, really. I do. Look....
“I don’t go back and look at my early work, because the last time I did, many years ago, it left me cringing. If one publishes, then one is creating a public record of Learning to Write.”
-Lorrie Moore
Radiolab: Who Am I? →
“My self is a story I tell myself.”
There’s a lot of other wonderful stuff in this episode, too.
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Description:
The “mind” and “self” were formerly the domain of philosophers and priests. But in this hour of Radiolab, neurologists lead the charge on profound questions like “How does the brain make me?”
We stare into the mirror...
Timeline of Personally Pivotal Events in 2011
JANUARY
Got my own apartment in Shanghai (before that, I’d stayed in a friend’s apartment for two months and travelled for one) [link]
Got my first professional photography gig [link]
Taught my first class (Photoshop)
FEBRUARY
Started actively trying to behave as if all men were gay [link]
Had my first one-night-stand
Had my second one-night-stand [link]
Went on an overnight...
Yeah, I'd join Twitter if wanted to tell everyone...
When you ask someone to make up a story, they will usually say, “So I was at the store…”
Why is that? And how boring.
Dana & Vlad
These folks were a sustained...
