February 2012
6 posts
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“I hate to bludgeon you about the head and neck with a hammer forged in the...”
– 25 Things Writers Should Stop Doing
Great set of tips, hilarious line.
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“Of course anyone who truly loves books buys more of them than he or she can hope...”
– David Quammen (via prettybooks)
How To Write A Killer Script - Jane Goldman →
Fairly standard advice, but good job, Stylist.
January 2012
35 posts
“Obviously we’ll never meet since we never leave our increasingly smelly...”
– Andrea Janes | Fun with Misery | The Nervous Breakdown
Fantastic. Finding the blue skies lurking behind the dark clouds.
Letters of Note: To My Old Master →
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“The ‘sharing tips and insights’ style blog post has been overdone. No-one needs...”
– Collection of Unlinked Observations
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“In The Descendants, though, [Alexander Payne has] successfully blurred the line...”
– Review: The Descendants (15) - Alistair Harkness - Scotsman.com
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“By just about every estimate, women buy around two-thirds of all books and 80...”
– The agony of the male novelist - Salon.com
And I wonder why most of my male friends are such slow and/or inconsistent readers.
YouTube's Reach Begins to Eclipse Television →
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“It’s an abdication of narrative responsibility, in my view. The...”
– Philip Pullman calls time on the present tense | Books | The Guardian
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Missed Connections Poetry on Craigslist, Under the... →
Drunk Irish Guy to the Girl in the Red Tights on the Subway to Queens:
drunk irish guy to the girl in the red tights on the subway to queens
i really hope I did not creep you out… I was so drunk and you were so hot…
I wish I could have met you at a different moment and a different place.
It’s like… the poetry of Shame.
“I think what I did right was take risks and take action. I didn’t wait for...”
– How I Got Three People Jobs - Forbes
“Of course, most companies can’t buy into that. They hire twenty-something kids...”
– I Am the Facebook Whisperer - Forbes
“Green writes books for young adults, but his voice is so compulsively readable...”
– NPR Review of tfios
http://www.npr.org/2012/01/17/145343351/the-fault-in-our-stars-love-in-a-time-of-cancer
(via supercrazypurplegirl)
25 clever ideas to make life easier →
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“After Enron, I’d meet new people and have what I call a second...”
– Overachievers: what it takes to be a bright young thing | Money | The Guardian
“There’s a new Dark Knight film out this year. Calling Batman “the...”
– Charlie Brooker
DVD Review: Hearts of Darkness →
“One of the arguments for old-school newspapers is discovery — next to the...”
– Filter bubbles burst, blind spots shrunk, curation over SEO: Rachel Sklar’s predictions for 2012 » Nieman Journalism Lab
“Deschanel and her friends looked around and smartly realized that if they could...”
– Filter bubbles burst, blind spots shrunk, curation over SEO: Rachel Sklar’s predictions for 2012 » Nieman Journalism Lab
Paris Review – The Laundry Room, Thomas Beller →
Lovely/sad stories.
“But this impulse to collect these books is slightly more complicated: it isn’t...”
– Paris Review – The Book Club, Jason Diamond
Paris Review – Miss Piggy, Literary Icon, Emma... →
WatchRewind. (by Levi Beamish)
December 2011
26 posts
