Sat 27 Sep ∞ Permalink

Overheard On Honolulu Harbor


Blond Gay Man: I am convinced that the only thing that helps us get over our previous relationships…is our next relationship.
Asian Woman: I love that.
Blond Gay Man: I don’t.
Asian Woman: So…

Sat 27 Sep ∞ Permalink

It’s Been A Privilege To Be Here


I am always saddened when a great artist dies. But the loss always seems so much more palpable and poignant when the artist is not only a formidable artist, but also an amazing husband, father,…

Sat 27 Sep ∞ Permalink
Awesome Wordle-esque visualizations of the top 250 words used by Barack Obama and John McCain during the first Presidential debate of 2008, hosted by Jim Lehrer on 26 September 2008, from the Ford Center at the University of Mississippi in Oxford. (Larger version available on click-through.) [Via spudart.]
Awesome Wordle-esque visualizations of the top 250 words used by Barack Obama and John McCain during the first Presidential debate of 2008, hosted by Jim Lehrer on 26 September 2008, from the Ford Center at the University of Mississippi in Oxford. (Larger version available on click-through.) [Via spudart.]
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Thu 25 Sep ∞ Permalink

Promise me you’ll never forget me, because if I thought you would, I’d never leave.End quote.

—Winnie The Pooh, A. A. Milne.
Thu 25 Sep ∞ Permalink
OMG. I had a coat exactly like this when I was, like, FIVE! In, like, 1978! (Mine had a matching hat, though. Oh, SNAP!) [Via Jezebel.]

OMG. I had a coat exactly like this when I was, like, FIVE! In, like, 1978!

(Mine had a matching hat, though. Oh, SNAP!)

[Via Jezebel.]

Tue 23 Sep ∞ Permalink

The AB Remainders: The Loveliest Island Anchored In Any Ocean


Today here at Curious Affairs we are purposefully ignoring the recent unannounced hiatus of “The AB Remainders” and proceeding without comment to announce a slight deviation from the usual…

Mon 22 Sep ∞ Permalink

Keep Calm, Carry On


While working my way through my RSS feed reader this afternoon, I happened quite luckily across a post in one of my favorite corporate blogs that caused me to pause, and to reflect,…

Mon 22 Sep ∞ Permalink
Psyop’s “Crow”, a station ID for MTV HD, produced in 2007. [Via Design:Related.]
Sat 20 Sep ∞ Permalink
So much for Atherton Bartelby never succumbing to Internet memes.
So much for Atherton Bartelby never succumbing to Internet memes.
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Sat 20 Sep ∞ Permalink

For Wallace, a thought could never actually, in good conscience, realistically, be finished — there was always one more reversal, one more qualifying clause, and an honest writer had to follow them out. Hence the famously never-ending sentences that spun off, even more famously, into never-ending footnotes. The black hole of his self-consciousness drew everything into it, even and especially self-consciousness itself. But that compulsion to be exhaustive was, apparently, exhausting.End quote.

—“Sam Anderson Remembers David Foster Wallace”, New York magazine, 15 September 2008.