July 2010
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The Second Bakery Attack by Haruki Murakami →
I’m still not sure I made the right choice when I told my wife about the bakery attack. But then, it might not have been a question of right and wrong. Which is to say that wrong choices can produce right results, and vice versa. I myself have adopted the position that, in fact, we never choose anything at all. Things happen. Or not.
If you look at it this way, it just so happens that I told...
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“How will you use your gifts? What choices will you make? Will inertia be your...”
– Jeff Bezos (via azspot) (via jesuisperdu)
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101 Fast Recipes for Grilling - NYTimes.com →
THERE, in all of their Fourth of July glory, are 101 grilling ideas begging to be tried. A vast majority take less time to prepare and grill than it takes to watch your coals turn white. (If you use gas, they’re still almost as fast as heating up the grill.) Some of them feature ingredients like corn, eggplant and tomatoes, which will be better a month from now, at least in the Northeast. But...
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“Mourning rituals, when they work, function like emotional retirement accounts:...”
– “the leap,” by jesse green, in last week’s new york magazine. it’s the story of a prep school kid who jumped out a window to his death, and it’s wonderfully written and worth a read. (via brookehatfield)
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June 2010
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WatchIt’s all about the user kicking ass. (…) People are not into your tool, they are into what the tool enables.
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Danny Bowien Debunks Mission Chinese Food Myths →
“Let me start off by saying that despite what some critics are saying, this is not going to be your typical Chinese food. It’s also not going to be some weird Mexican-Chinese fusion taco truck. The idea behind mission chinese food is quite simple. Alot of people think of chinese food as sweet and sour pork and walnut prawns. And no matter what they say on the menu, it’s usually...
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Nabokov in Berlin →
Vladimir Nabokov was starting his career as a writer when he found himself in Berlin. “It is clear, for one thing, that while a man is writing, he is situated in some definite place; he is not simply a kind of spirit, hovering over the page…Something or other is going on around him.” The short 1934 novel Despair from which this quote comes is already heavily self-ironising...
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Japan's Jimusho System →
Each country or cultural region has a uniquely-structured industry responsible for producing, promoting, and distributing the products that make up what we consider “pop culture.” In the case of Japan, there is a single organizational category most responsible for the form and content of pop culture: the artist management company, called colloquially jimusho (”office.”) The jimusho wield a...
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One reason why humans are special and unique: We... →
There must be something in the water here in Lanesboro, Minnesota, because last night I dreamt of an encounter with a very muscular African-American centaur, an orgiastic experience with – gasp – drunken members of the opposite sex and (as if that weren’t enough) then being asked by my hostess to wear a white wedding dress while giving a scientific keynote presentation. “Does it make me look...
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