December 2011
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“And now we welcome the new year, full of things that have never been.”
– Rainer Maria Rilke
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The Grump (no. 3): Curse the Darkness by Errol...
A Chinese proverb - ‘Don’t curse the darkness - light a candle.’ Used by Adlai Stevenson (1900-65), praising Eleanor Roosevelt in an address to the United Nations General Assembly in 1962 - ‘She would rather light candles than curse the darkness, and her glow has warmed the world.’ While intending no disrespect for either Adlai Stevenson or Eleanor Roosevelt, I...
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Postmodern malaise... on the internet →
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“If you switch on television it’s just ridiculous and its destructive. It kills...”
– Werner Herzog (via thesvelteprancingmadman)
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WatchI thought there was going to be chocolate…
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The Death of the Hipster by Rob Horning →
A rather old, but nonetheless interesting article on the “What was the hipster?” panel discussion back in 2009. I can’t say I agree—exactly agree, anyway—with Horning’s “premise” that the hipster is defined by a lack of authenticity. I think this is a vast oversimplification*. Perhaps, this complexity and undefinability is the root of these panel...
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Watch“…like in the grave, that’s where we’ll all be together. In the grave.”
John Darnielle, Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas