January 2010
31 posts
“Young Fletcher was educated at Cambridge. As a playwright - and indeed as a...”
– Bill Bryson in his fantastic biography Shakespeare, discussing some of ~The Bard’s contemporaries/collaborators. I am fascinated by/envious of this kind of relationship, always.
wikipedia category: duos →
yessssssssssssss, amazing, I love the internet, etc
Conan's Exit Confirmed, Leaving NBC with a Payout →
whydoihaveablog:
Damn.
To see some dude who seems like a good guy lose his dream job and be publicly humiliated by his employers of 17 years? It’s just a bummer to witness. That’s all there is to it. It’s just such a bummer.
I spent a good half hour last night trying to sum up my feelings on this whole thing but got so frustrated that in the end I just closed the browser and watched all the...
tsunamis:
thetigersagain:
tsunamis:
I battled executives today, diversified my portfolio (seriously), managed $1.5 billion in potential construction, translated a poem in Yiddish, got totally fucking freaked out about HOW INSANE my next semester is going to be between my mega-intense super-legit poetry workshop and my seminar in translation (omg, 200 pages of reading a week and multiple...
nightmarebrunette:
Scissor Sisters — It Can’t...
I like decompartmentalising, okay.
So I set up a tumblr for quotes/ponderingz/etc from/on/etc stuff I’m studying for uni. It is going to be strictly tl;dr and might fall by the wayside as soon as I get sick of transcribing huge passages of big words and it will interest very, very few of you, but you’re welcome to follow if you like:
http://likealittledropofink.tumblr.com http://likealittledropofink.tumblr.com...
“The bear is the emblem and commencement of a general unloosing both of narrative...”
– from TG Bishop’s Shakespeare and the Theatre of Wonder
FAO WHEREWOLVES
also: “If he is hungry (as the clown suggests) it may be because he has just endured - and woken up from - his winter sleep.”
also: The other three hundred quotes I am probably going to post from this tonight...
langer:
One thing to always keep in mind about Facebook is that these guys are serious ideologues who are serious about bringing positive change to the world. It’s not just a catchy tagline on their website but a legitimate mantra, and these guys are evangelicals for the cause of connectedness and bringing people together. I trust their instincts, and I think if more people considered the people...
“My instincts are always to avoid person-to-person argument. (I like arguments in...”
– Volcano. UGH YES MY LIFE
“I was born already a failed thing / I do not contain all the beauty in the world”
– Nightmare Brunette is always and forever my favourite
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whydoihaveablog:
I post this song maybe every 6...
fuckyeahohnotheydidnt:
wat in the wat this is amazing
“Shakespeare’s durability in the theatre may largely result from the...”
– Cedric Watts, in his introduction to A Winter’s Tale