April 2010
51 posts
The Avett Brothers opening for John Mayer??!? →
#2 Tragic Cultural News Item of the day, #1 being Michael Bay is remaking Rosemary’s Baby.
hypem:
flamgirlant:
@RolloGrady:
I just received some tragic new this morning. The Avett Brothers are going on tour with John Mayer - as openers.
Wow.
March 2010
103 posts
HTML5/CSS3 Browser Compatibility Checklist →
Boom, nerdery.
cameronmoll:
Handy resource.
“I just have two iPhones, so if the battery runs down on the first one, I can use...”
– Steve Wozniak (via newsweek)
Welcome to my nightmare.
“Aging gracefully is supposed to mean trying not to hide time passing and just...”
– Jeanne Moreau
“HERE ARE THE DANGER SIGNALS. ANY TIME TWO CHARACTERS ARE TALKING ABOUT A THIRD,...”
– - from a letter David Mamet sent his writers on the TV series The Unit (via diablocodyisnotevenherrealname)
(via nickdouglas)
If you write, read this whole thing.
(via tanya77)
(via soupsoup)
Fantastic. Also, this makes me miss my playwriting classes like whoa.
(via alittlespace)
Love this....
Whatever, it’s pretty.
hypem:
...
Nora Ephron Recalls First Job at Newsweek
newsweek:
equalitymyth:
Being told that “women don’t write here,” via NYMag.
Nora Ephron, with notebook, covering Robert F. Kennedy’s 1964 senate campaign for the New York Post. (Photo: Arty Pomerantz)
Read more: Excerpted From ‘My First New York,’ Nora Ephron, Ashley Dupré, and Others Share Their Early Days — New York Magazine
hypem:
melper:
Lucifer - Jay-Z
The Black...
“The novel Blood Meridian (1985) establishes Cormac McCarthy as unchallenged king...”
– Skybarn reminds us, here, of one of our favorite literary essays ever, “The Dead Mule Rides Again,” in which Jerry Leath Mills argues that the distinguishing characteristic of Southern Literature is the presence of wholesale mule slaughter. If you haven’t read this, drop everything and do so now....
Wall. Of. Sound.
52books:
wheredidourlovego:
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Feel now, think later, for more flowing creativity... →
psychotherapy:
Creating can be an emotional process. But there’s good emotional—even when you’re sad or the work epitomizes sorrow—and there’s bad emotional. That’s when your inner critic attacks you, calls you mean names, and causes you not to feel like creating anymore.
One of the ways you may slip out of flow when you’re creating something is if you don’t feel that what you’re producing—your...