January 2012
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“You are comfortable with feeling like you have no deep understanding of the...”
– What is it like to have an understanding of very advanced mathematics? - Quora via kottke
I think this is equally true of artists, and is related to what Keats called negative capability:
when a man is capable of being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact...
October 2011
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What if I have to Choose? →
via dooce
September 2011
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August 2011
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June 2011
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February 2011
4 posts
Jailbait Is as Jaibait Does →
From the LA Weekly, it’s the “Top 10 Amateur Teenage Girls Playing The Runaways’ ‘Cherry Bomb’ in their Bedrooms.”
“According to an alarming new study released Monday by the University of Chicago,...”
– The Onion via Playgoer
January 2011
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Phrases I could stand never to hear again, Part 1
“In this media-saturated age…”
December 2010
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November 2010
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Admit it—you've done it. I sure have.
It’s a Shakespeare Play and Someone Grabs His Crotch To Indicate A Dirty Joke.
How to be a Bad Director [Minnnesota Playlist]
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What We Work For
Hours of rehearsal can go into the most sublime, subtle, and sensitive acting moment on stage.Then, at any given performance, some guy with too much phlegm can just cough right over it…and no one will notice your work.
via Playgoer
October 2010
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The Crisis of the Humanities Officially Arrives
George M. Philip, president of SUNY Albany, announced that the French, Italian, classics, Russian and theater programs were getting the axe.
The Crisis of the Humanities Officially Arrives [Stanley Fish, Opinionator Blog, NY Times]
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The Social Network is Better Than Any Play I've...
Isaac Butler, on Parabasis, observing that The Social Network is better than any play he’s seen this year:
We have to understand that this is what we’re competing with. We have to understand this both in terms of aesthetics and business practices. We have to stop assuming our audience shares our prejudices about different mediums being superior or the intrinsic value of live...
August 2010
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Thoughts after reading some blog comment threads.
As long as there are humans, there will be battles for status and there will be jerks.
Conversations about whose battles for status are more legitimate is itself a battle for status. Undertaken, largely, by jerks.
April 2010
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March 2010
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February 2010
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The January-December Romance
The Case For An Older Woman
Even if, like me, you’re not single, you should be reading this fantastic series of posts about user behavior on okcupid. Here’s a telling bit:
The median 30 year-old man spends as much time messaging teenage girls as he does women his own age.
Wow. That’s not creepy at all. And…
Statistically speaking, a woman’s desirability peaks at...
By now, I guess I should be less shocked that in the arts, you often find yourself in the midst of a cabal whose bond is an agreement to ignore one another’s bullshit.
December 2009
3 posts
sheelysheelysheely:
As I was going through my...
“Politely ignoring the gap between an increasingly sophisticated economy and the...”
– Maybe the Problem is Us | Bad Money Advice
November 2009
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October 2009
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September 2009
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August 2009
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June 2009
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May 2009
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“The subtext of The Jonas Brothers is an American morality horror. They were...”
– Classical Geek Theatre: Regarding The Jonas Brothers
April 2009
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March 2009
3 posts
WatchSlagsmålsklubben
A reinterpretation of Little Red Riding Hood using an infographic style. I laughed out loud when the wolf imagined Grandma.
February 2009
5 posts
boxee blog » the Hulu situation →
You know, I realize that nobody in a major media company is glued to Google Reader or listens to TWIM regularly or knows a torrent from a TOR router, but it seems like the TV people want their business to go the way of the record industry.
