August 2008
25 posts
Life History of the Northwestern Lumberjack
“Since conversation is the principal absorber of the lumberjack’s leisure, one naturally wonders to what fields he devotes his interlocutory abilities. As a silent listener, watch in hand, to 1800 minutes of confabulation during the summers of 1927 and 1928, I have obtained the figures shown in Table II on subject matter.” - Social Forces, Vol. 8, No. 2 (Dec., 1929) (JSTOR)
New York City Fits.....Eventually →
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What our dinosaurs have to say about us
Dinosaur Exhibit. Writer Jack Hitt discovers that the world of dinosaurs is a man-made creation, a simulated world that may or may not accurately reflect what happened on earth 100 million years ago. Talking with dinosaur experts like Jack Horner (whose work was the basis of much of the film Jurassic Park), Hitt finds that most of what you think you know about dinosaurs is probably wrong, and that...
My account has been compromised →
Until we Bleed (Kleerup with Lykke Li)
Luxury Pond - Dan Goldman on WNYC →
“Dan Goldman is a songwriter based in Toronto, and his latest project is a group of unusual, tuneful, elegantly textured songs about sharks, boulders, frozen lakes, clay portraits, and the emotions they evoke and reflect. With accompaniments that include gorgeous string quartet arrangements by Owen Pallett (Final Fantasy), the sound-world of Goldman’s songs is lush and fresh. “Luxury Pond”...
“Ophelia removed ‘moody princes’ from her interests.”
– Hamlet (Facebook Newsfeed Edition)
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