July 2011
21 posts
“Besides the neutral expression that she wore when she was alone, Mrs. Freeman...”
– “Good Country People” by Flannery O’Connor
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Marriage for gays in NY
Despite my mixed feelings on whether or not marriage should be the focal point of the gay rights movement, MAN does reading articles and looking at photos of happy homos tying the knot make me verklempt. And that all of the city offices were open on a Sunday, to boot!
From the end of this piece in the New York Times:
“The last wedding of the day, a security guard informed a small group of...
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“Typography…may well be the most direct visual representation of the tone...”
– Jonathan Barnbrook, quoted in Simon Garfield’s Just My Type (galley edition)
WatchReading a book called Just My Type (about fonts) that led me to this hysterical video. Oh, Papyrus…
“The sky was a clear pale blue, all in one piece — except for the hole the...”
– “The River” in A Good Man is Hard To Find
by Flannery O’Connor
“L.A. is murder. Take four quick steps along the darkside of the city’s...”
– The back copy from a pulpy version of Raymond Chandler’s The Simple Art of Murder
"La Vida es Sueño" por Marco Antonio Flores
“Pero ahí, sola, y quizá feliz, dio en pensar en que la muerte es tranquila, que llega cuando uno menos la espera, sin avisar, y que se debe esperar con resignación pensando que hay que prepararse a bien morir. Pero ahora sabe que nada de eso importa, que no sirve de nada prepararse, que de cualquier manera va a llegar arrasando lo mucho o lo poco que quede de vida, y que pase lo que pase va...
