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2007

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A Love Letter

I drove home with the windows down. That inexplicable change in the air that all know as the first...

“I would be wonderful with a 100-year moratorium on...”
— Philip Roth, quoted...

The wonderful Enormous Air posted Soren Kierkegaard in the...

Will and I had the pleasure of meeting the wonderful...

I didn’t want to be left out of Dinoflagellates Week...

“Phosphenes,” from Andrew Coulter Enright. The...

Moonrise, from the ranch and from Abby.

Secrecy and Friendship

“I am walking with Elvar D. in the Reykjavik cemetery; he stops at a grave [where] barely a...

Today is Will’s birthday! Will is the most admirable...

György Ligeti - Continuum (for player piano) The wonderful Noise for Airports posted this, and...

I went with Will and Matt to see Mono, a Japanese...

“And you will, on close introspection, find that what you...”
— Erwin Schrödinger, in the...

Funkadelic - Hit It and Quit It As is my habit, I will briefly drape some quasi-intellectual dross...

Semi-GPOYW with Abby: hanging out in the Dust Storm.

“I make all my decisions on intuition. But then, I must know...”
— Ingmar Bergman, quoted by Que...

Japhetic Theory: Linguistics with Uncle Joe...

Hildegard of Bingen - O tu suavissima virga Sydney’s child Vera was born on September 17, and...

“In the fight between you and the world, back the world.”
— Franz Kafka, “Aphorism...

All of the brightest things live in the darkest places. [...

“As Balzac said, ‘There goes another novel.’”
— A post-coital Alvy Singer, in...

I think Propellers for Umbrellas takes perfect photographs.

BMKK, whose posts I love, shared Leoš Janáček’s Sonata for Violin and Piano, IV. Adagio, alone...

“If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously...”
— Alexander Solzhenitsyn, who...

Ike Turner and the Kings of Rhythm - Ghetto Funk Posted by the always-brilliant Gospel of Moll.

“Wish I was a little bit taller, wish I was a mahout, wish I...”
— Sarah Belfort remixing Skee-Lo...

Philip Glass - Einstein On The Beach - Act IV. Scene I - Building This is dated, a bit absurd. It...

Abby in San Francisco about a year ago, before I knew her.

"Art is truth"; but can truth be...

Andy Sturdevant of South 12th posted an excellent essay about John F. Kennedy’s assertion that...

“Oppenheimer, they tell me you are writing poetry. I do not...”
— The brilliant physicist Paul...

GPOYW. The lights in the distance are from Death Valley....

Drunk, Crazy, Fat, Stupid

Kia Matthews posted an excellent mock apology on behalf of the overweight after discussing the...

Self-Pitying Greeks & Your Hallucinating...

Tragos and Superfluidity, each of whom could hold my entire mind in their consciousness with room...

Bear hunter on Kodiak Archipelago, May 11, 1957 (via).

Samurai Creed, author unknown

From the always wonderful Dirk Ashly Knoedler: I have no parents; I make the heaven and earth my...

Six people might not seem like a lot for a Tumblr meetup,...

Philip Glass - Trial 2 / Prison, “I Feel the Earth Move.” From Einstein on the Beach,...

Rainer Maria Rilke, "Autumn Day"

Lord: it is time. The summer was immense. Lay your long shadows on the sundials, and on the...

Ramin Bahrani’s Plastic Bag is too short to review and...

“Film is twenty-four lies per second at the service of...”
— Michael Haneke. This recalls...

Das weiße Band: Fascist Children of the Corn

On this afternoon the weather was inclement, but there were...

That Fear of the False

“Janine had taken an intense personal interest in the scruples which dogged Flaubert’s...

“The stupidity of people comes from having an answer for...”
— Milan Kundera in The Book of...

GPOYW: a bee buzzes the tower as Abby picks a seed out of my...

Werner Herzog’s Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call...

Through the absurd kindness of super-duo Chris and Alexi,...

Nick Drake - Black Eyed Dog This song hasn’t yet been ruined for me by the incredible lunacy...

Long before I had the chance to photograph the moon through...

“Sint sane superbi: quid id ad nos attinet? Idne irascimini,...”
— Cato, quoted by Superfluidity....

In November 1971, a man traveling under the name Dan Cooper...

“…all literature, highbrow or low, from Aeneid onward,...”
— Michael Chabon, quoted by Alan...

Dust gives substance to the streaming sunlight at dusk;...

“…these philosophies have their perverse charms. If you...”
— Gary Kamiya, quoted by Little...