January 2010
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Jan 31st
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Jan 31st
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Jan 30th
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Jan 29th
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“What color were dinosaurs? Well, at least one of them had a feathered mohawk...”
– Study Offers Insight Into Dinosaur Colors THAT is an intro paragraph. (:
Jan 29th
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“Jack Bauer will want to return for another season of 24 just so he can download...”
– Stephen Fry, iPad About. (:
Jan 28th
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TED! A clip from Josh Radnor’s Happythankyoumoreplease.
Jan 28th
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Jan 27th
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Jan 26th
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“I would like to know how it feels for my desperation to get louder.”
– Bill Withers (“Still Bill” trailer) after reciting the Thoreau quote, “The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.”
Jan 26th
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Jan 26th
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Of all our effacements, the adverb just may be the most disingenuous, with the greatest potential for mischief. -R Plus: Just hope. Just is one of the words I’ve (mostly) edited from my personal vocabulary; I don’t like its powers of dilution. I can undercut my words just fine on my own, thanks.
Jan 25th
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Jan 25th
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At least football's not totally over, yet…
Surely you saw this coming: after plowing through 5 books in a couple of weeks, I want nothing to do with reading.
Jan 25th
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Listenjessicabigarel: Grizzly Bear’s cover of of Hot...
Jan 22nd
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“I kept thinking, how am I going to produce a human being who has arguably the...”
– Paul Bettany (Hero Complex: ‘Legion’ Star Paul Bettany raids the mini-bar.) That.
Jan 22nd
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RJD2 - The Colossus →
RJD2? I’m in. New RJD2? I’m definitely in. RJD2 ft. Kenna? Oh hell yes. “Games You Can Win” — go listen now, please. (:
Jan 21st
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More progress! 5 down, 16 to go. (list) Which: Do Not Deny Me, Jean Thompson; Love Walked In, Marisa De los Santos. I like the idea of short stories but I don’t read many of them (John August’s The Variant is my most recent favorite), so Do Not Deny Me was fun. Well, “fun.” I don’t know, a couple of the women were too shrill for me to like. You know what I liked,...
Jan 21st
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An open letter from DJ Shadow →
(via Mark via Dante Ross)
Jan 19th
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Jan 17th
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Listenjazzchannel: xineann: Miles Davis: My Funny...
Jan 16th
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NYC Timelapse (via kottke) Watching it happened to coincide with the beginning of “A Half Built House”, which was lovely.
Jan 15th
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Deelicious.
Andrew Scrivani for the NYT (also on Flickr). Frisée Salad with Poached Egg Egg and Herb Salad Couscous Tabbouleh
Jan 15th
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Jan 14th
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Jan 13th
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Jan 13th
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“USC football will certainly not fall off the map. Nobody is writing here that,...”
– “Despite this season’s woes, Ben Howland’s star shines bright” - Bill Dwyre Yes, well, a girl can dream, can’t she? Item the second: really? Howland “has earned the trust and great expectations of sports fans in Los Angeles”? Uh…are you even in Los An…oh,...
Jan 12th
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Oregon Landscapes : Allie Mount Photography →
Um. Wow. (Be sure to check out “Rocks in the Mojave Desert” …sigh) (via @ImpossibleUSA)
Jan 11th
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The thing is every time I read “Archimboldi” in 2666, in my head I hear Rambaldi and wonder for a few seconds when Jennifer Garner’s going to swing in and thwack Norton upside the head. (She never does. …I know!)
Jan 11th
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Jan 10th
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Progress: 3 down, 18 to go (list). Which: The Lightning Thief, Rick Riordan (4★!); The Coral Thief, Rebecca Stott; The Four Seasons, Laurel Corona. What I’ve learned a week into this: the Kindle is the only way to read on the elliptical, otherwise I spend the whole time terrified of ripping pages.
Jan 9th
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Jan 8th
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Jan 8th
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Jan 8th
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Jan 8th
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Reading: The Coral Thief
I’m finding Daniel (narrator) to be terribly irritating. All his hemming and hawing about Lucienne and “omg she needs to get out of Paris” and “blah blah but I love her”…good lord, man! Hmm. Perhaps it’s not accidental. He is 23 and away from his beloved Derbyshire and Edinburgh for the first time, after all. That post-college, pre-25 window is fraught with...
Jan 7th
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Jan 6th
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The challenge: read 20 books by (the end of) June (this year :P). 20 is approximately 80% of the books I have but haven’t read. And like the book-junkie I am, when I got my library card tonight (Seattle Public Library: you are so cool with your self-checkout), I…picked up 2 more books (listed first). Oh, bother. The list: Do Not Deny Me - Jean Thompson (finished) The Coral Thief -...
Jan 6th
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Jan 5th
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Jan 5th
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'10 resolutions
Not actually 10, that’s just silly. No new camera gear continues. Can she do it?! Read all the books I have but haven’t yet read including Infinite Jest (that’s about 25 books if you’re wondering…) No Diet Coke on Mondays and Wednesdays (what? they can’t all be lofty) That’s all I got — check back with you in Q2. (:
Jan 5th
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Jan 4th
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Jan 4th
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2009 in (photographic) review.
In 2009, I made my first resolutions: to buy no new camera gear (apart from film, batteries, etc) and to shoot with the film bodies I have. Done and done. (: Photos taken with my iPhone: 1,650 Photos taken with my digital: 6,150 Rolls of film developed: 23 Rolls of film shot: 18 (12 35mm, 6 120) Overall a semi-strange year, a couple of photographic dry spells, but I think I like...
Jan 2nd
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Jan 2nd