January 2011
13 posts
“Puritanism: the fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.”
– H.L. Mencken
“I am exhausted. I have spent all week trying to brainwash small children into...”
– http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/johann-hari/johann-hari-why-is-it-wrong-to-protect-gay-children-2196470.html
Literally every sentence in this I want to frame and put on my wall. Johann Hari is, once again, amazing.
““The Last Song” is based on the novel by Nicholas Sparks, who also...”
– Roger Ebert takes Nicholas Sparks DOWN. http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100330/REVIEWS/100339997
So I have this thing. The thing is that every few months I re-enact the scene in made-for-TV movies where someone awakens out of a coma and has to be told the year and who the prime minister is and stuff. And then they look into a mirror and they’re decades older than they think they are and then their family comes in and their kids are all grown up and some of their friends are dead and its...
“Government, like dress, is the badge of lost innocence. The palaces of kings are...”
– Thomas Paine
“Thefts never enrich, alms never impoverish, murder will speak out of stone...”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The library at Stony Stratford, on the outskirts of Milton Keynes, looks like...”
– Townpeople all take out their full allowance of books in protest at the library’s closure. Faith in humanity renewed.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/jan/14/stony-stratford-library-shelves-protest
Amber Benson: Ok, I am sitting two tables away from @neilhimself in a place of coffee & I can’t get it together to go say hello. Ugh - I am a dork.
Neil Gaiman: @amber_benson Dork. Come and say hi.
Revision-induced delirium results in this
Here is a story from history, cheerfully taken from Wikipedia.
So the year is 1600-and-something and Roger Williams is a preacher in ye olde England. Then he got a bit bored or whatever and went on the exciting voyage to America, land of opportunity! All was very exciting until he decided the Church of England was full of shit and needed to be totally cut off so it didn’t infect the shiny new...
“I can’t quite recall who it was now—maybe Linford Christie?—but a couple...”
– http://www.theawl.com/2010/12/why-arent-more-people-drinking
http://thehairpin.com/2010/12/the-best-time-i-inter... →
‘Once a pigeon fell off a building and hit me on the head. I was travelling in Brazil at the time, walking along a busy street in downtown Rio. I shrieked and clutched my head in my hands, looking first up at the sky and then down in bewilderment at this grimy little beast squirming on the sidewalk.
As I was coming to terms with the fact that I had just been hit in the head by a pigeon, I...