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nevver: Biblio-

Mon, 20 May 2013 15:38:07 -0700

Biblio-

The Kings of Summer Official Trailer #1 (2013) - Nick Offerman, Alison Brie Movie HD - YouTube

Wed, 15 May 2013 19:56:02 -0700

The Kings of Summer Official Trailer #1 (2013) - Nick Offerman, Alison Brie Movie HD - YouTube:

Everyone loves a coming-of-age comedy. How about one with Nick Offerman and his wife Megan Mullally? You had me at Parks and Rec.

THIS IS WATER - By David Foster Wallace on Vimeo

Tue, 14 May 2013 10:58:47 -0700

THIS IS WATER - By David Foster Wallace on Vimeo:

Flawless…

nevver: Sylvia Plath’s copy of The Great Gatsby

Mon, 13 May 2013 17:36:30 -0700

nevver:

Sylvia Plath’s copy of The Great Gatsby

at The Inn at Suncadia

Sat, 11 May 2013 08:05:37 -0700

at The Inn at Suncadia

imwithkanye: The Making Of Macklemore | OUT How a straight...

Wed, 08 May 2013 10:19:12 -0700

imwithkanye:

The Making Of Macklemore | OUT

How a straight white rapper from Seattle wrote hip-hop’s first gay anthem.

“Each night is different — you never know,” Macklemore says [of “Same Love”]. “To see 6,500 people put their hands up in support of equality is a beautiful thing. It’s honestly been the highlight of touring.”

It’s a risky move to make a stand one way or another regarding such divisive issues but Macklemore and Ryan Lewis have navigated same sex marriage and hip hop with such ease and tact that you have to admire them for standing up for what they believe. After all, isn’t that what hip-hop is all about?

“Damn right I support it”

gq: Daft Punk for GQ

Tue, 07 May 2013 07:30:06 -0700

gq:

Daft Punk for GQ

nevver: “All writers should be put in a box and thrown in the...

Mon, 06 May 2013 16:01:47 -0700

Kurt Vonnegut

Ernest Hemingway

Charles Bukowski

Hunter S. Thompson

J. D. Salinger

John Steinbeck

Aldous Huxley

Albert Camus

Jack Kerouac

William S. Burroughs

nevver:

“All writers should be put in a box and thrown in the sea.”

The Kentucky Derby is Decadent and Depraved

Sat, 04 May 2013 14:48:03 -0700

The Kentucky Derby is Decadent and Depraved:

http://english138.web.unc.edu/files/2011/08/The-Kentucky-Derby-is-Decadent-and-Depraved.pdf

“Never mention Playboy until you’re sure they’ve seen this thing first,” he said. “Then, when you see them notice it, that’s the time to strike. They’ll go belly up every time. This thing is magic, I tell you. Pure magic.”

Penmanship is now 'handwriting' as Washington state removes gender bias in statutes

Wed, 24 Apr 2013 15:38:53 -0700

Penmanship is now 'handwriting' as Washington state removes gender bias in statutes:

shortformblog:

SEATTLE (Reuters) - Washington state’s governor signed into law on Monday the final piece of a six-year effort to rewrite state laws using gender-neutral vocabulary, replacing terms such as “fisherman” and “freshman” with “fisher” and “first-year student.”

While this may not have an immediate tangible effect, words and language play a significant role in shaping how we think, and mandating gender-neutral language in state statutes is a great first step in the right direction. The article notes that some words, such as “manhole,” won’t be replaced, because legislators couldn’t think of any other alternatives (whether or not “personhole cover” will ever gain traction remains to be seen).

"Speaking is physically difficult for me. But my feelings are clear: I’m furious. I will not rest..."

Fri, 19 Apr 2013 09:32:30 -0700

“Speaking is physically difficult for me. But my feelings are clear: I’m furious. I will not rest until we have righted the wrong these senators have done, and until we have changed our laws so we can look parents in the face and say: We are trying to keep your children safe. We cannot allow the status quo — desperately protected by the gun lobby so that they can make more money by spreading fear and misinformation — to go on.”

- Gabby Giffords (via wateringgoodseeds)
What could those who voted against it possibly be afraid of? I believe we do have the right to bear arms but why not make it more difficult for criminals or those looking to do harm. It should be common sense.

nevver: The New Yorker

Tue, 16 Apr 2013 16:14:14 -0700

nevver:

The New Yorker

instagram: The World’s Most Beautiful Libraries “Without...

Tue, 16 Apr 2013 11:19:49 -0700

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The World’s Most Beautiful Libraries

“Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future.” -Ray Bradbury

For centuries, books have housed the collective knowledge of the world and formed the foundations of educational institutions. Given that these objects that contain such value, it only makes sense that throughout history people have constructed beautiful buildings to house them.

We put together a list of some of the most beautiful libraries as captured by Instagrammers around the world. For more photos from these architectural wonders, check out their linked location pages below.

Stuttgart City Library, Stuttgart, Germany

Trinity College Library, Dublin, Ireland

Library of Alexandria, Alexandria, Egypt

Real Gabinete Português de Leitura, Rio de Janiero, Brazil

The Royal Danish Library, Copenhagen, Denmark

George Peabody Library, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD

Kanazawa Umimirai Library, Kanazawa City, Japan

New York Public Library, New York City, NY

I wish to visit each and every one of these.

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Thu, 11 Apr 2013 15:57:19 -0700

The 25 Greatest Quotes About Writing

Thu, 11 Apr 2013 15:27:36 -0700

The 25 Greatest Quotes About Writing:

nevver:

“Writing is easy. All you have to do is cross out the wrong words.” — Mark Twain
“I only achieve simplicity with enormous effort.” — Clarice Lispector
“A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.” — Virginia Woolf
“I’ve put in so many enigmas and puzzles that it will keep the professors busy for centuries arguing over what I meant, and that’s the only way of insuring one’s immortality.” — James Joyce
“The first draft of anything is shit.” — Ernest Hemingway
“Always be a poet, even in prose.” — Charles Baudelaire
“Literature — creative literature — unconcerned with sex, is inconceivable.” — Gertrude Stein
“If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don’t write, because our culture has no use for it.” — Anaïs Nin
“One can be absolutely truthful and sincere even though admittedly the most outrageous liar. Fiction and invention are of the very fabric of life.” — Henry Miller
“Writers aren’t people exactly. Or, if they’re any good, they’re a whole lot of people trying so hard to be one person.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald
“The true writer has nothing to say. What counts is the way he says it.” — Alain Robbe-Grillet
“James Joyce was a synthesizer, trying to bring in as much as he could. I am an analyzer, trying to leave out as much as I can.” — Samuel Beckett
“Life is painful and disappointing. It is useless, therefore, to write new realistic novels. We generally know where we stand in relation to reality and don’t care to know any more.” — Michel Houellebecq
“Do you realize that all great literature is all about what a bummer it is to be a human being? Isn’t it such a relief to have somebody say that?” — Kurt Vonnegut
“Skill alone cannot teach or produce a great short story, which condenses the obsession of the creature; it is a hallucinatory presence manifest from the first sentence to fascinate the reader, to make him lose contact with the dull reality that surrounds him, submerging him in another that is more intense and compelling.” — Julio Cortázar
“Don’t bend; don’t water it down; don’t try to make it logical; don’t edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.” — Franz Kafka
“Reading is more important than writing.” — Roberto Bolaño
“The artist is always beginning. Any work of art which is not a beginning, an invention, a discovery is of little worth.” — Ezra Pound
“The next real literary “rebels” in this country might well emerge as some weird bunch of anti-rebels, born oglers who dare somehow to back away from ironic watching, who have the childish gall actually to endorse and instantiate single-entendre principles. Who treat of plain old untrendy human troubles and emotions in U.S. life with reverence and conviction. Who eschew self-consciousness and hip fatigue. These anti-rebels would be outdated, of course, before they even started. Dead on the page. Too sincere. Clearly repressed. Backward, quaint, naive, anachronistic. Maybe that’ll be the point. Maybe that’s why they’ll be the next real rebels. Real rebels, as far as I can see, risk disapproval. The old postmodern insurgents risked the gasp and squeal: shock, disgust, outrage, censorship, accusations of socialism, anarchism, nihilism. Today’s risks are different. The new rebels might be artists willing to risk the yawn, the rolled eyes, the cool smile, the nudged ribs, the parody of gifted ironists, the “Oh how banal.” To risk accusations of sentimentality, melodrama. Of overcredulity. Of softness. Of willingness to be suckered by a world of lurkers and starers who fear gaze and ridicule above imprisonment without law. Who knows.” — David Foster Wallace
“The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“We live not only in a world of thoughts, but also in a world of things. Words without experience are meaningless.” — Vladimir Nabokov
“…Describe your sorrows and desires, the thoughts that pass through your mind and your belief in some kind of beauty – describe all these with heartfelt, silent, humble sincerity and, when you express yourself, use the Things around you, the images from your dreams, and the objects that you remember. If your everyday life seems poor, don’t blame it; blame yourself; admit to yourself that you are not enough of a poet to call forth its riches; because for the creator there is not poverty and no poor, indifferent place. And even if you found yourself in some prison, whose walls let in none of the world’s sounds – wouldn’t you still have your childhood, that jewel beyond all price, that treasure house of memories? Turn your attentions to it. Try to raise up the sunken feelings of this enormous past; your personality will grow stronger, your solitude will expand and become a place where you can live in the twilight, where the noise of other people passes by, far in the distance. — And if out of this turning-within, out of this immersion in your own world, poems come, then you will not think of asking anyone whether they are good or not. Nor will you try to interest magazines in these works: for you will see them as your dear natural possession, a piece of your life, a voice from it. A work of art is good if it has arisen out of necessity. That is the only way one can judge it.” — Rainer Maria Rilke
“The words of my book nothing, the drift of it everything.” — Walt Whitman
“All I know is what the words know, and dead things, and that makes a handsome little sum, with a beginning and a middle and an end, as in the well-built phrase and the long sonata of the dead.” — Samuel Beckett
“Do you know what I was smiling at? You wrote down that you were a writer by profession. It sounded to me like the loveliest euphemism I had ever heard. When was writing ever your profession? It’s never been anything but your religion. Never. I’m a little overexcited now. Since it is your religion, do you know what you will be asked when you die? But let me tell you first what you won’t be asked. You won’t be asked if you were working on a wonderful, moving piece of writing when you died. You won’t be asked if it was long or short, sad or funny, published or unpublished. You won’t be asked if you were in good or bad form while you were working on it. You won’t even be asked if it was the one piece of writing you would have been working on if you had known your time would be up when it was finished—I think only poor Soren K. will get asked that. I’m so sure you’ll only get asked two questions. Were most of your stars out? Were you busy writing your heart out? If only you knew how easy it would be for you to say yes to both questions. ” — J.D. Salinger
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laughingsquid: Can Hackers Be Heroes? by PBS Arts: Off Book

Mon, 01 Apr 2013 13:22:00 -0700

laughingsquid:

Can Hackers Be Heroes? by PBS Arts: Off Book

nevver: Doghouse Diaries I would add: Learn a trade. Survival...

Mon, 01 Apr 2013 10:24:21 -0700

Doghouse Diaries

Doghouse Diaries

nevver:

Doghouse Diaries

I would add: Learn a trade. Survival is easier if you’re skilled and uneducated. However, being skilled AND educated is the recipe for success.

powells: An old one, but today it bears repeating.

Thu, 28 Mar 2013 22:56:35 -0700

powells:

An old one, but today it bears repeating.

The governor of North Dakota has signed a controversial "heartbeat" abortion ban into law. More Info:

Tue, 26 Mar 2013 11:35:11 -0700

The governor of North Dakota has signed a controversial "heartbeat" abortion ban into law. More Info::

shortformblog:

North Dakota Governor Jack Dalrymple on Tuesday signed a measure giving the state the most restrictive abortion law in the United States, a bill banning the procedure in most cases once a fetal heartbeat can be detected, as early as six weeks.

Dalrymple also said the constitutionality of the measure was an open question and said state lawmakers should appropriate money to a litigation fund for the state attorney general to defend against any possible challenges to the law.

“Although the likelihood of this measure surviving a court challenge remains in question, this bill is nevertheless a legitimate attempt by a state legislature to discover the boundaries of Roe v. Wade,” Dalrymple said in a statement.

Considering many women don’t even receive confirmation that they’re pregnant until four to six weeks after conception, the decision essentially gives women roughly fourteen days (if they’re lucky) to decide whether or not they’d like to be a mother. Because forcing people to rush important decisions, like whether or not somebody wants to be a parent, is always a good idea, right?

I wonder how many women had a say on this bill?

nedhepburn: Daft PunkGet Lucky I’m ready

Sat, 23 Mar 2013 23:44:54 -0700

nedhepburn:

Daft Punk
Get Lucky

I’m ready