December 2008
20 posts
Balls and brains: Intelligence predicts sperm... →
(via everybodycares)
Lunch time
I probably shouldn’t look at porn while eating my lunch, especially after a run and before an afternoon of hanging out with kids.
Obama: "I Can't Grow Facial Hair" →
everybodycares:
On Wednesday, Barack Obama addressed Bill Richardson’s shaven beard, stating “It was a mistake for him to get rid of it. I thought that whole Western rugged look was really working for him….we’re deeply disappointed with the loss.”
But perhaps the disappointment was more personal than the president-elect let on. In a September 20, 2006 article in The Hill about how voters...
everybodycares:
Midnight Lullaby - Tom Waits
Nine months, no pussy.
It’s been nine months since I’ve touched a cat. In Korea, the cats are feral, eating mice and garbage. They’re all over the place but terrified of people. Today, on a walk back from a yarn store, jauntily swinging a bag full of deep-fried mondus, I had a close encounter with a cat.
The brown tabby tom stood outside of a flower store. “Mrow.” He said, swinging his...
foreword
gnomechomsky:
srsly:
tarts:
My only advantage as a reporter is that I am so physically small, so temperamentally unobtrusive, and so neurotically inarticulate that people tend to forget that my presence runs counter to their best interests. And it always does. That is the one last thing to remember: writers are always selling somebody out.
—Joan Didion
This is from her introduction to...
An intimate gathering of bank CEOs in 2002…
moetkacik:
“I would resign rather than be expected to know everything that’s going on in my company. It’s just not tenable,” said an unnamed financial-services CEO. “That’s what I have a board for, that ‘s what I have a chief financial officer for. I simply can’t be held responsible for what all of those people do.” And yeah, Hank Paulson was there.
“The brain is so easily tricked, they say, precisely because it has spent a...”
– Mind - Standing in Someone Else’s Shoes, Almost for Real - NYTimes.com
Moby fucking Dick →
“[Beer] regulates the bowels, prevents constipation, and becomes in this way a...”
– United States Sanitary Commission, quoted in this excellent New Yorker essay on craft brewing. (via superhamburgeramerica) (via robot-heart) (via everybodycares)
November 2008
9 posts
“Most of us hear one big tidal wave of sound; [record producers] zoom right in on...”
– An Experience Every Music Lover Should Have At Least Once | 1000 Recordings to Hear Before You Die