July 2010
102 posts
I hear people throw that word around, “Legacy, what’s my legacy?” I always just...
– Bill Murray (via diablocodyisnotevenherrealname) (via mikehudack)
An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing...
– Charles Bukowski (via @jonnybint) (via rahmin)
Judge blocks some of the most controversial parts... →
My Favorite Teacher →
Sometimes, role models do bad things. Very bad things.
My all-time favorite magazine story.
Lou Barletta: My Mayor, Wrong or Wronger →
I wrote a little piece about my hometown for the Esquire Politics Blog today.
Kevin Kelly is compiling a list of the best... →
Some really great stuff on there. If you haven’t read “My Favorite Teacher,” stop what you’re doing and read it now.
Steve Jobs's Commencement address at Stanford... →
Delivered on June 12, 2005.
God this is good.
The genius of our Constitution is that it provides rights even to those who...
– U.S. District Judge James M. Munley, who found the “Illegal Immigration Relief Act” proposed by the mayor of my hometown to be unconstitutional. Seems like a really good dude.
Full face transplant patient appears in public for... →
Whoa.
The best thing about Silly Bandz is that when their time has come and gone, they...
– Susan Orlean — Free Range: Snap : The New Yorker (via interweber)
You know, physically, he was just a pussy.
– Mike Tyson on Che Guevara in Details
I'm really loving the new Google Image Search UI. →
Beach House - Walk in the Park
Creepy video. Digging it.
There is much to be said in favour of modern journalism. By giving us the...
– Oscar Wilde, on journalism (Editor’s note: The Oscar Wildin Out saga continues.) (via youmightfindyourself)
The Low Anthem - “To the Ghosts Who Write History Books” live for laundromatinee.com
Good lord that’s beautiful stuff.
A Brief History of Computer Icons →
Why Back to the Future is Secretly Horrifying
These people are a little grating at first, but this is an amazingly thorough deconstruction of Back to the Future.
Call me a grumpy old codger, but I liked the old way better. For one thing, I...
– Gene Weingarten, Gene Weingarten column mentions Lady Gaga
This essay is a pretty good survey of the current state of journalism.
Bill Murray Thought Garfield Was a Coen Brothers... →
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