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Found this via a new fave blog on here, hardprint: FANTASTIC...

Mon, 21 Dec 2009 14:46:48 -0500

Found this via a new fave blog on here, hardprint:

FANTASTIC MAN TV

Fantastic Man Magazine is on YouTube.

Flannel Shirt / Mens I love needsupply…

Sat, 12 Dec 2009 18:32:14 -0500

Flannel Shirt / Mens

I love needsupply…

Korea’s Massive 364-Foot Taekwon V Statue Will Crush Puny...

Sat, 12 Dec 2009 18:31:34 -0500

Korea’s Massive 364-Foot Taekwon V Statue Will Crush Puny Humans - taekwon V robot land - Gizmodo

via www.slashfilm.com. I’m late to the game with this, but...

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 21:48:08 -0500

via www.slashfilm.com. I’m late to the game with this, but I still love it.

bearseatbeats: snuh: offnotesnotes:1:2:3: And now, the...

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 10:06:11 -0500

bearseatbeats:

snuh:

offnotesnotes:1:2:3: And now, the greatest animated .gif ever made

me-ow!

"JOHN WRAY To write “Lowboy,” which takes place in the New York City subway,..."

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 11:14:10 -0500

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JOHN WRAY

To write “Lowboy,” which takes place in the New York City subway, Brooklyn-based novelist John Wray rode trains all over the city while pecking out a first draft on his laptop computer. He mainly rode the F, C and B trains, though “there was a time when I was really into the G,” he says. He often sat in a corner near the conductor’s booth with his headphones on. He worked like this, often for six hours a day, for nearly a year.

Initially, he wrote on the train not for research purposes, but to cut himself off from distractions like email and phone calls. Then the people and conversations he observed on the subway began to creep into the book, a novel about a paranoid schizophrenic teenager. One of the characters, a heavy-set homeless woman, is based on a woman Mr. Wray used to see at the Stillwell Avenue stop in Brooklyn. Bits of dialogue he overheard appear verbatim in the novel, including a strange conversation about how prospective homeowners should spend the night in a house before buying it in order to check the property for paranormal activity.

Writing on a noisy, crowded train was hard at times, but it was pleasant compared to the conditions under which he wrote his first novel, he says. In 1996, after losing his job in an art gallery, Mr. Wray lived in a tent in a rat-infested basement in Brooklyn’s Dumbo neighborhood. He wrote in the tent on an old 1940s typewriter. “I tried to approximate every cliché of the struggling novelist possible,” he says.

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- How Junot Diaz, Kazuo Ishiguro and Orhan Pamuk Write - WSJ.com

emptyage: Prepare for Twitter to go super-assey-douchebaggy...

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 10:04:08 -0500

emptyage:

Prepare for Twitter to go super-assey-douchebaggy with racist overtones in 5… 4… 3… 2…

"Everyone detected with AIDS should be tatooed in the upper forearm, to protect common-needle users,..."

Sat, 31 Oct 2009 01:45:47 -0400

“Everyone detected with AIDS should be tatooed in the upper forearm, to protect common-needle users, and on the buttocks, to prevent the victimization of other homosexuals.”

- From the most famous of William F. Buckley’s columns. Mentioned in all his obits. I doubt he thought it would go down like that.

This is an illustration from one of the balls at the center of...

Sat, 31 Oct 2009 01:30:10 -0400

This is an illustration from one of the balls at the center of my new book, The Queen of the Night.

I’m in love with Gustave Dore’s illustrations...

Sat, 31 Oct 2009 01:26:40 -0400

I’m in love with Gustave Dore’s illustrations lately—-a 19th Century artist. This one is Satan, from Paradise Lost.

"the critique that he isn’t really worthy of the prize (left critics like to note that wars are still..."

Sat, 10 Oct 2009 10:50:45 -0400

“the critique that he isn’t really worthy of the prize (left critics like to note that wars are still going on in Afghanistan and Iraq) because he hasn’t made peace engages in a certain kind of historical amnesia. And U.S.-centrism. It is actually a lot of amnesia, because it forgets the long history of violence that foregrounds his appearance on the world stage. The Middle Passage, slavery, colonialism, segregation, and the persistence of anti-black racism at every level of American life (and life in the West generally) are certainly violences worthy of consideration, and Obama’s candidacy and election is surely a blow against that violence. No, one doesn’t have to go to the “post-racial fantasy” extreme. One simply needs to note that the unthinkable happened. Yet, I’ve not seen much attention to any such foregrounding violence in the commentary. It’s as if Obama became president, then even the critics of “post-racial America” forgot that he was black and what that means and how much violence forms the context of his election.”

- Theory . Culture · Obama’s Nobel

Stuff White People Like - The Daily Beast Choire Sicha on the...

Mon, 21 Sep 2009 09:56:50 -0400

Stuff White People Like - The Daily Beast

Choire Sicha on the all-white parade at the Emmys.

Tolkien’s Spy Past Inspires Hunt For Hobbit, Rings Spooks |...

Mon, 21 Sep 2009 09:45:59 -0400

Tolkien’s Spy Past Inspires Hunt For Hobbit, Rings Spooks | Underwire | Wired.com

+KN | Kitsune Noir » Rafael Grampá So hot for this.

Sun, 20 Sep 2009 15:41:08 -0400

+KN | Kitsune Noir » Rafael Grampá

So hot for this.

Via Gawker, a heartbreaking fan video of Two Weeks, by Grizzly...

Sun, 23 Aug 2009 21:02:27 -0400

Via Gawker, a heartbreaking fan video of Two Weeks, by Grizzly Bear. (via Vimeo)

"As a columnist who regularly dishes out sharp criticism, I try not to question the motives of people..."

Fri, 07 Aug 2009 00:38:42 -0400

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As a columnist who regularly dishes out sharp criticism, I try not to question the motives of people with whom I don’t agree. Today, I’m going to step over that line.

The recent attacks by Republican leaders and their ideological fellow-travelers on the effort to reform the health-care system have been so misleading, so disingenuous, that they could only spring from a cynical effort to gain partisan political advantage. By poisoning the political well, they’ve given up any pretense of being the loyal opposition. They’ve become political terrorists, willing to say or do anything to prevent the country from reaching a consensus on one of its most serious domestic problems.

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- Steven Pearlstein - Steven Pearlstein: Republicans Propagating Falsehoods in Attacks on Health-Care Reform - washingtonpost.com

This Mates of State video completely cheered me up. To...

Wed, 05 Aug 2009 14:19:01 -0400

This Mates of State video completely cheered me up. To understand how I saw it, imagine being in a second story kitchen in Asbury Park. (via dashear)

"It all started nearly 200 years ago. It was the “Year Without a Summer” of 1816, when ash from..."

Fri, 31 Jul 2009 12:24:00 -0400

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It all started nearly 200 years ago. It was the “Year Without a Summer” of 1816, when ash from volcanic eruptions lowered temperatures around the globe, giving rise to widespread famine. A few friends gathered at the Villa Diodati on Lake Geneva and decided to engage in a small competition to see who could come up with the most terrifying tale — and the two great monsters of the modern age were born.

One was created by Mary Godwin, soon to become Mary Shelley, whose Dr. Frankenstein gave life to a desolate creature. The other monster was less created than fused. John William Polidori stitched together folklore, personal resentment and erotic anxieties into “The Vampyre,” a story that is the basis for vampires as they are understood today.

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- Op-Ed Contributors - Why Vampires Never Die - NYTimes.com

"Obama’s promise is as great as McCain’s threat. His race and background would refute the..."

Wed, 29 Oct 2008 21:44:00 -0400

“Obama’s promise is as great as McCain’s threat. His race and background would refute the charges of American racial arrogance that have helped recruit many angry terrorists. His remarkable and apparently near-unanimous appeal abroad—an appeal the insular Republicans scorn—would immediately help redeem our soiled international reputation. He has a striking, deep intelligence, and a gift for combining clarity and strong feeling in his writing and speeches; and he uses these qualities to expose and explain complexity rather than bury it under slogans. It is said that he lacks experience. On the contrary, he alone among prominent politicians has the experience that counts most in a threatening and densely interdependent world: the crucial experience of empathy. He has lived, and been poor, in both domestic and foreign worlds that few national politicians can even imagine.”

- Ronald Dworkin, in the New York Review of Books, on the question of Obama’s experience.

"The novelist’s certainty of knowledge about his characters must be like the biographer’s..."

Tue, 28 Oct 2008 18:40:00 -0400

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The novelist’s certainty of knowledge about his characters must be like the biographer’s structure of factual evidence.

In fiction, the fine meshes of plausible action need constant attention, in the smallest details. It is astonishing how, when absorbed in other values of a story—-character, atmosphere, prose style, inner significance—-some of the small actualities escape attention. But one must always keep in mind how, ‘if this, then that’ must happen. Every detail must mean more than itself. The smallest error in plausibility threatens the credibility of the whole.

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- Paul Horgan, Approaches To Writing