February 2012
15 posts
Feb 25th
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Composing a Poem →
Feb 23rd
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Short-term experiment: How to be vegan without... →
Feb 20th
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Can Gardening Be a Form of Community Organizing? →
Feb 20th
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“Chessman and Wells appear to have been the instigators of this strike. They demanded fountain pens to replace the ballpoint pens currently in use; lights on all night; …better screens on the Death Row windows so birds would not fly in; longer exercise periods; and better food.” Source: “The Rise and Fall of California’s Radical Prison Movement” by Eric...
Feb 17th
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Feb 15th
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Feb 7th
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“Anything you need can be found in the garbage. Always have more than one spot.”
– Anthony Horton, “The Fiery End of A Life Lived Beneath a City.” NYTimes.
Feb 7th
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“They began talking about art, and soon he showed her his work: sketches he had...”
– “The Fiery End of A Life Lived Beneath a City.” NYTimes. 
Feb 7th
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“Poetry is nothing but a certain astonishment before the world and the means for...”
– Andre du Bouchet, 1954 (via leopoldgursky)
Feb 6th
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Feb 5th
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“There are no straight lines in Nature, folks. Nature abhors symmetry. Sure,...”
– Charles Martin Simon
Feb 5th
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Feb 5th
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Feb 3rd
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Feb 3rd
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January 2012
20 posts
Jan 30th
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Jan 30th
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Jan 29th
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“The stereotypes are that men write in a linear, forward-driven, logical fashion,...”
– Jeffrey Eugenides
Jan 29th
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“Suburbia is designed to be a safe, uneventful place, and yet, of course, some...”
– Jeffrey Eugenides
Jan 29th
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“Respond to every call that excites your spirit.”
– Rumi
Jan 28th
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Jan 28th
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“SEBASTIAN Well, I am standing water. ANTONIO I’ll teach you how to...”
– The Tempest
Jan 27th
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Jan 26th
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Adulting: Step 141: Know who represents you, and... →
adulting: OK, everyone, now that SOPA has seemingly been vanquished and the world can continue, here’s a question: Can you get in touch with the person that represents you without the assistance of Tumblr? Quick reminder (and sorry to non-U.S. readers) but we live in a representative democracy, which…
Jan 24th
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Jan 24th
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Jan 22nd
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“I want the world to an- swear back the way the song wants—shared”
– From “August” by Jonathan Galassi. The Paris Review, Winter 2011
Jan 22nd
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“Of course nature is really indifferent to what we do and why we do it—and even...”
– Ill Seen, Ill Said
Jan 13th
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“George was epically and, at times, autocratically uninterested in anything...”
– The Millions : A Weed in My Flower Garden: Remembering George Whitman of Shakespeare and Company (via leopoldgursky)
Jan 13th
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Jan 13th
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Jan 13th
Jan 3rd
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“the sunken square of accident”
Jan 2nd
You can always restart, baby →
Jan 1st
December 2011
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Dec 29th
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Dec 24th
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Dec 24th
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Dec 21st
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Dec 13th
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Paper Gifts (or: Put a Bird on It) →
Dec 12th
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December is the month of hiding, of voracious and endless reading. I finish Biography of Einstein and the new Eugenides novel, zip through A Moveable Feast one weekend and Ten Thousand Saints the next. The radio begins to broadcast tips for seasonal affective disorder, which mostly consist of purchasing a sunlight machine. I am using books to anesthetize myself, and they are good escapes.
Dec 12th
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Dec 9th
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Dec 7th
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“Osman refers to the settlers as “romantic urbanists”; they—or should I say...”
– http://www.city-journal.org/2011/21_4_brooklyn.html
Dec 3rd
Dec 2nd
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November 2011
18 posts
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Nov 30th
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My Heart Bows To Their Boots →
Nov 30th
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Nov 28th
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