October 2011
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“Life seems but a quick succession of busy...
April 2011
1 post
So excited to start reading Wuthering Heights...
February 2011
1 post
December 2010
4 posts
October 2010
1 post
September 2010
1 post
August 2010
7 posts
From "My Boss, Justice Stevens"
ONE of Justice Stevens’s trademarks is the courteousness with which he treats the lawyers who appear before the Supreme Court. When he wants to elicit information or make a point during oral argument, he typically interrupts the lawyer with the gentle preface, “May I ask you a question?”
During William Rehnquist’s tenure as chief justice, a lawyer was arguing in the court for the first time. When...
"Based on a True Story"
Someone should write a script about this:
“PARIS — Did the supermodel Naomi Campbell know that diamonds delivered to her in the night, 13 years ago, were a gift from Charles G. Taylor, then the president of war-torn Liberia? […] Ms. Campbell, who appeared in court on Thursday, told a panel of judges that two men had brought her several rough diamonds after she met Mr. Taylor at a...
Visiting France’s Côte Fleurie →
Comments or No Comments? →
This may possibly be the most idiotic thing I have read in days… People blogging about whether or not there should be a section for comments for articles with a more factual nature. Needless to say, I was tempted to make a comment… about how idiotic this page of comments were. And that “woman relative” sounded fine to me.
July 2010
11 posts
Can't Buy Me Love →
It’s like I’m having the Beatles-fever all over again. Live.
Quotes for the Week:
“This gleaming obsidian shard. I safeguard above all the others.” -A Thousand Acres, Jane Smiley
“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.” -The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
“In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I’ve been turning over in my mind ever since. ‘Whenever you...
Are People without Nice Things Lazy?
There exists a very human tendency to ascribe one’s own personal successes to hard work and failures to bad luck. The flip side is that many people look at the successes of others and attribute them to good luck, and their failures to a lack of personal responsibility. The reality is complicated, and parents need to teach their children that.
The person who works hard for little money may...
June 2010
1 post
Will my child grow up with wonder and dreams?
While watching Blue Planet, I started to wonder: what will we know by the time I have children? Will my children be able to grow up fantasizing about the Amazons, Mars, and the deep blue sea—all of which were places relatively unknown to society while I was growing up and objects of imagination—and able to imagine a different life and society? I fear that the children of the next...
May 2010
1 post
April 2010
16 posts
cafemusic:
Andrew Bird - Fiery Crash
Andrew...
Don’t be shy just let your feelings roll on...
cafemusic:
KT Tunstall - “Universe & U”
I...
Notice of the day:
April 12, 2010: The local laundromat in town attracts a lot of cute guys. They obviously are not as sloppy as most of their friends because they actually do laundry, so that’s a plus. That’s where I’ll start doing my laundry too.
Music scores
I enjoy listening to my favorite movie soundtracks—the soundtrack to the movie Atonement and Pride and Prejudice among the many—when I am working. It puts a certain cinematic quality to my daily life…
March 2010
63 posts
The gloomier the day, the lovelier the music. →
So enjoy this lovely song by God Help the Girl. Belle and Sebastian’s Steve Murdoch helped make this documentary/album, so if you like Belle and Sebastian, you would like this song.
