January 2009
47 posts
whatson:
christinahaberkern:
“Coin-Operated...
A Landing on the Sun
I’ve just finished A Landing on the Sun by Michael Frayn. It was sad. I tend not to read many sad stories because I can get enough tragedy on the news thank you very much, but I like everything of Frayn’s I’ve read and I enjoyed this. The quotes the publisher chose didn’t really relate to the book - I suppose they thought ‘this book contains philosophical dialogues...
“One so to speak names oneself as happy or unhappy, in the same way that one...”
– Michael Frayn, A Landing on the Sun
Academic Earth →
whatson:
unalone:
This is incredible, and doesn’t cost $160,000. Free lectures from Harvard, Berkeley, MIT, Stanford, Princeton, and Yale, covering a ton of subjects, for absolutely free.
More than lectures, AE offers entire courses. This Yale course on the American novel, for instance, spans 25 lessons.
Also of note: the @Google series of lengthy interviews, including a month-old one...
Armando Iannucci - Seduced by Sundance →
Armando Iannucci, director and co-writer of In the Loop, has written a very funny diary of his experience of the Sundance Film Festival.
“…if you bring off adequate preservation of your personal myth, nothing much else...”
– Anthony Powell, Books Do Furnish a Room. (via rach)
Knitting Without Tears →
Advert for the Knitmaster (incorporating the Ribmaster) from 1956, entitled ‘Knitting Without Tears’. I can’t embed it sadly.
(Via Scottish Screen Archive)
“But our ideas change. One day we want champagne; next day it’s...”
– Michael Frayn, A Landing on the Sun
Days with My Father →
cafe:
Phillip Toledano’s journal & photos of his days with his father who has no short-term memory. Very touching & inspiring!
This is one of the most moving collections of photographs I’ve seen. They are beautiful.
Is This The World's Best Airline Complaint Letter? →
onemoretimewithfeeling:
I cracked up! Fun idea: take a drink each time he writes “Richard.” You’ll be plotzed in 5.
I laughed and laughed. That food looks like nothing on earth.
“…I believe laughing is the best calorie burner. I believe in kissing; kissing a...”
– Audrey Hepburn (via heyaloverly) (via tuesdayslove) (via unicornology) (via tikayiyay)
“The true reason [we read books] remains the inscrutable one - we get pleasure...”
– Virginia Woolf on her love of reading | Books | The Guardian (via buyhercandy) (via tarts) (via singlescoop) (via sarahchristine) (via glitterati)
Belated Happy 250th Birthday Robert Burns
Is there for honest Poverty
That hings his head, an’ a’ that;
The coward slave-we pass him by,
We dare be poor for a’ that!
For a’ that, an’ a’ that.
Our toils obscure an’ a’ that, The rank is but the guinea’s stamp,
The Man’s the gowd for a’ that.
What though on hamely fare we dine,
Wear hoddin grey, an’ a that;
Gie...
emilyposts:
In an attempt to reach one of my goals for the year, I am working on a budget. This is a first for me, and it’s a little scary. Our household is about to be rocked. We are going to start using…wait for it…CASH (!!!!) to pay for things that aren’t regular monthly bills. And it will be kept in neatly labeled envelopes. And once it’s gone, it’s gone.
Hold onto your hats,...
avalanche:
Feist - La Même Histoire
The Guardian's list of 'crime novels everyone must... →
Why have spoilers in a list of crime novels you are exhorting your readership to read? Apart from that it’s a good list with (to me) bizarre exclusions like Margery Allingham. I would have had a Rex Stout in there too.
“Do not let people mislabel the US Air landing a “miracle”. It was the result of...”
– Anil Dash (via soupsoup)
“It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at...”
– Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises
ManyBooks →
bunkercomplex:
unalone:
Beautiful archive of public-domain books (unlike Project Gutenberg, which looks like week-old eggnog smells), you can download them in almost any format, and they’ve got P. G. Wodehouse, who’s got the beauty of Vladimir Nabakov mixed with the snark of Douglas Adams.
“He spent the remainder of that day searching for his son, Zafar, then he went...”
– how one book ignited a culture war, andrew anthony. (via paperbackgirl)
Life is utterly bizarre
““You and I are two magicians, Mr Segundus. And England is full of magic. ...”
– Susanna Clarke, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
megsnotplural:
harriettlou:alohanico
Handsome...
this is lovely - some of Yann Tiersen's music for... →
jona:
deegocracy:
(via anastasivictoria)
I’ve been wondering what film to watch on this cold snow filled evening and this just put me in the mood to watch Good Bye Lenin again! Time to make some tea and escape, Merci!
“After sleeping through a hundred million centuries we have finally opened our...”
– Richard Dawkins (via skysignal)
'An intruder received a taste of divine reckoning... →
Via BBC