February 2010
“Throughout this entire book, one part of my brain was in a state of wonder,...”
– Cynical-C Blog | You Can’t Please Everyone – The Scarlet Letter
January 2010
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Neuroskeptic: A "Severe" Warning for Psychiatry →
psychotherapy:
A really great write-up that follows up with some legitimate questions about the study/article I posted a few minutes ago from Newsweek…
Imagine there was a nasty disease that affected 1 in 100 people. And imagine that someone invented a drug which treated it reasonably well. Good work, surely.
Now imagine that, for some reason, people decided that 10% of the population need to...
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Jillian Weise, The Amputee's Guide to Sex
Despite
At six in the morning the woodpecker took to the tree, the man from last night slack-jawed & asleep. The leg would not slide on & woud not slide on. He said he rather liked it, could kiss despite it. I know that word. It means the desire to hurt someone.
Why Avatar isn't actually #1 →
For purely economical reasons, guys. I’m not even getting into analysis, they just don’t adjust box office sales for inflation apparently. Broadway ticket sales either. Seems like cheating to me, but what should we expect from producers. I saw that Mel Brooks movie, I know what they’re in it for.
Then again, housework still doesn’t count toward the GDP, so I guess there...
At this point, why not
breaking into my office on a Sunday
caffeine despite all the bottles that say “avoid caffeine”
planning a trip to San Fran for next month, even if the whole office will be gone
counting stolen rehearsal space as Civil Disobedience
testing the boundaries of all relationships
Team Gay won Celebrity, too. Good night for board games and my ego, bad night for America Ferrara.
Another win for the world Apples to Apples champ, this one notable for a win among strangers. Thank you, thank you.
Only problem with sleeping past 1:00 is you still end up having to start your day at a run.
Jurisprudence, Disney-style
onahill:
Here goes.
The U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia was apparently testing its website.
Plaintiff: MICKEY MOUSE
Defendant: DONALD DUCK
Jurisdiction: Federal Question
This surprises me only because I’d expect Donald Duck to be far more litigious than Mickey… the mouse really must have been done wrong to bring suit.
(Hey look, my best friend’s on...
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The Small State Senate Bias →
Well. That was certainly worth a read. Wish I’d been born moneyed and politically motivated in one o’them tiny states with disproportionate control of the Senate.
J/k about living in the office all weekend. Found a T C Boyle reading down the block. Treating myslef to literary indulgence, then bed.
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Just hit my last deadline of the week and got the office to myself. Will now proceed to clean my desk, obsessively file and clip and label, close lingering computer tabs, and generally close up shop. But first I think I will eat my lunch, because that is a good thing to do for oneself.
Is it bad if I just want to sleep here? It’s cold out and I have my books and Netflix instant play. This...
I am at a webinar RIGHT NOW. I’m also in the twitterverse and in my office and in Brooklyn. All at once. What a world, what a world.
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Word of the day: Lacuna.
a blank gap or missing part
A lexical gap or lacuna is an absence of a word in a particular language. Several types of lexical gaps are possible, such as untranslatability and missing inflections.
In music, a lacuna is an intentional, extended passage in a musical work during which no notes are played. A lacuna acts as “negative music” to induce a state of serenity (or tension) in...
“The focus will be on the Rabbit’s career and job prospects during the Year of...”
– Nina, reading my Chinese Zodiac. Damn accurate, what a year for the Fire Rabbit.
“When she smiles, tiny quotation marks appear like dimples on either side of her...”
– Laura Linney Returns to Broadway in ‘Time Stands Still’ - NYTimes.com
Mmmmm Laura Linney. Let me count the ways. Even if I don’t count Time Stands Still. I certainly count that she was smart enough to drop out of Northwestern, and that she got her big Bway break understudying for Six Degrees....
“The thing is, I can’t think of a single euphemism that exclusively...”
– Shakesville
OH SNAP. There’s nothing that brightens my day more than stumbling across an unexpected zinger aimed at J. Michael Bailey.
“Here’s a thing about mansplaining and why I care a lot about it: it is annoying,...”
– Me? A mansplainer? Let me mansplain. « Shapely Prose
Yes, yes, a thousand times yes. How do I get this memo out to all the men I care about?
'Venus in Fur' - At Classic Stage, One Object of... →
Isherwood liked Venus In Fur almost as much as I did. Don’t read the review if you want to see the play, though. That’s why I haven’t reviewed it here*. It’s so much more fun not to know what you’re getting into, in this case.
*Convenient excuse, D. Well played.
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Sometimes I can actually hear her roll her eyes...
Madre: Thus, [redacted] proved himself incapable of refraining from being an asshole, even in this time of my clear and evident distress.
Moi: "An asshole is an asshole is an asshole." Gertrude Stein said that.
Madre: No, she said "a rose is a rose is a rose." That's different.
Moi: Well, whatever. Same dif. As Emily Dickinson said, all words are interchangeable.
Madre: Seriously? She said that?
Moi: Well, no. She said that all words rhyme, because any two words sound more like each other than a word and silence. But that's pretty much the same thing.
Madre: Go call [redacted] and tell him he's an asshole.
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Could Overturning Prop 8 Help California's Budget... →
File under: Rhetorical question of the day.
COME ON. DUH. And we’re not even talking about how much the stupid trial is costing, just straight up, how much will Homo’s spend on weddings and how much tax revenue will that produce = A LOT.
Ur bigotry iz expensive.
honest question.
Can the concept of “responsibility” exist without with concept of “property”?
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Transference.
I read the first six or so poems of Jillian Weise’s Amputee’s Guide to Sex on the train this morning. They are very good. But I got five or so poems in before realizing I was misattributing every reference/allegory/metaphor of sex, as one of voting.
This is so eerily representative of my current state of mind as to be, perhaps, significant.
Dinah liveblogs the State of the Union
Totally sober, I might add.
Chris Matthews thinks he’s Yoda right now… anger leads to fear, fear leads to hatred, all of this has something to do with POTUS.
how about if you want to help small businesses, you abolish the legal concept of a corporation? Just an idea. #sotu
what channel can i watch for a steady reaction shot of Sotomayor? That’s really all I want. #sotu
If only your education...
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There were four in the bed and the little one said…
Sometomes I like to prove I know more about being straight than straight people do.
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“I would like to be the air
that inhabits you for a moment
only. I would like...”
– margaret atwood, variations on the word “sleep” (via meaghano)