February 2010
31 posts
January 2010
62 posts
Men at Forty
mumblelard:
by Donald Justice
Men at forty Learn to close softly The doors to rooms they will not be Coming back to. At rest on a stair landing, They feel it moving Beneath them now like the deck of a ship, Though the swell is gentle. And deep in mirrors They rediscover The face of the boy as he practices tying His father’s tie there in secret, And the face of that father, Still warm...
McSweeney's
micaaahhh:
kellyzen:
NIETZSCHE’S ANGEL FOOD CAKE.
BY REBECCA COFFEY
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1. Allow the angel to reach room temperature. Then kill it.
2. Kill God. Set Him aside.
3. Preheat the oven to 375 degrees.
4. Ecstatically whip, as if possessed by a storm-wind of freedom, 1-1/2 cups of excellent egg whites with 1/4 tsp. salt and 1-1/2 tsp. cream of tartar. Continue until peaks are as if raised...
WatchBanging the drum - age one to one hundred.
How to post photos on the internet
Guilty as charged.
marco:
Take a boring photo with your 50mm f/1.8 prime wide open, with a small sliver of your subject in focus. Leave large portions of the subject outside of the focal plane, regardless of how important or interesting they are.
Rotate the camera 30 degrees before shooting.
Square-crop.
Oversaturate or slightly desaturate. Tint red to look old. Under no circumstances...
(Emily Dickinson on having a hangover.)
bingoparaphernalia:
Every Emily Dickinson poem I’ve seen circulate on Tumblr has been punctuated in the edited way - with the dashes changed to commas and full stops. As far as I know, she disliked such changes, and when we studied her in school we used her dash-heavy versions, which to my mind are far more effective. So why is the Tumblr preference for the becomma’d edits? Is is that American...
The Laboratory of the Real
mills:
Contentious debates spring as often from predictive ideas as from unshared assumptions, and while the latter might remain perpetually unresolved, the former cannot: eventually, what is predictive will be substantiated or falsified.
To illustrate, imagine the status of an presently controversial political dispute in the next century. One can use any number of examples, from the...
