May 2010
Memorial Day = get your pool ready day
I smell like weeds (from all the weed whacking), chlorine, and sweat. Getting together a pool all by yourself in 100% humidity is not fun.
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Jeffrey Eugenides: Extreme Solitude : The New... →
A new short story from Jeffrey Eugenides.
Has anyone else noticed how awesome the fiction section of The New Yorker has been lately?
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The Millions: Melissa Klug and the Permanence... →
On the longevity of books.
The thought that my books will slowly decay and fall apart makes me sad. I should vacuum seal all of them. I’m not really joking.
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Graceland by Tallest Man on Earth (Originally by...
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Heads Will Roll by Yeah Yeah Yeahs (A-Trak Remix)
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I Like to Fuck by Hot Rod (feat. Tila Tequila)
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“Your destiny is not tied to anybody who left.”
– T.D. Jakes
I’m not one for sermons. Or religion. But this…this.
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I Met A Girl by Wheat
I love this song. Listen to...
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Something Pretty by Patrick Park
I’m a bit...
“Walter and Patty Berglund were the young pioneers of Ramsey Hillthe first...”
– Good Neighbors : The New Yorker
An excerpt from Jonathan Franzen’s new novel Freedom. The actual opening for the novel can be found here.
Literary works - Lostpedia →
Literary works, references, or authors that have been mentioned or shown throughout the series.
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“The exuberance of Bradbury’s prose is at times almost childlike in its...”
– The stories of Ray Bradbury. - By Nathaniel Rich - Slate Magazine
The Book Catapult →
This poor fellow is pretty much live blogging his reading of all the books James Patterson has published.
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Book group update
I’ve received quite a few replies and emails that you all would like to get together for a group reading project this summer.
If anyone is interested at all, please reply, email (irunfrombears@gmail.com), or comment on this post. If you have any suggestions for books, let me know and I can set up a poll of some sorts to get things rolling.
Text Playlist
viafrank:
A lot of designers and creative folk that I know keep a morgue file, a folder of random elements that they find from old jobs that got killed, inspirational bits, torn images from magazines, and other scraps. In fact, a lot of these Tumblr blogs are just that.
I do a bit of that myself, but I keep what I perceive to be a more valuable, important morgue file: one made of the best...
Tumblr Summer reading project/group?
Is anyone interested in getting together a tumblr specific reading project/group? I’m thinking along the lines of Infinite Summer, except probably not Infinite Jest. Yes, no, maybe?
If you would like to brainstorm with me or are interested, reply, reblog, or e-mail me (irunfrombears@gmail.com) and let me know.
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Translation Database →
Every (?) book published this year that was translated from another language.
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irunfrombears trntbl →
All 1541 tracks so far plus whatever else I can muster. Have at it and enjoy.
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Chinatown by Wild Nothing
Wild Nothing is simply...
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You’re Already Gone by The Dig
Do yourself...
Does Poetry Matter? - Paper Cuts Blog -... →
(via poetrynews)
Then there’s David Lipsky’s 1996 road trip with David Foster Wallace, recorded for a Rolling Stone profile that never happened. Now those tapes form the basis of Lipsky’s new book, “Although of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself,” in which he asks Wallace (among many other things) whether fiction is “going the way of poetry.” Here’s Wallace’s reply:
I think avant-garde...
How do you organize your bookshelf?
I’m going to be organizing my bookshelf for the millionth time. Currently, I don’t have a system set up for organization other then the two shelves filled with books that I haven’t read.
How do you prefer to organize your bookshelf?
petedecourcy:
Radio Dept. - Heaven’s On Fire
The Tickr: Apparently New York Can't Wait to See... →
Photo: Walter Iooss/Sports Illustrated/Getty Images; Uniform illustration by Darrow
If you would’ve told us Game 5 of the Eastern Conference Semi-Finals would have the Boston Celtics beating up on LeBron and the Cavaliers 120-88, we would have said you were crazy! A month ago, people were…
I’m all about the Cavaliers and have been for awhile, but I’m really tired of them not...
Mountain Goats FTW →
Yes to Mountain Goats, No to Beiber
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thenewinquiry:
Leonard Cohen, “Chelsea Hotel #2”...
An open letter from the baby boomers to their... →
axinomancy:
I love my folks (and they aren’t like this at all), but this letter speaks the truth for most boomers…
“Dear people between the ages of 25 and 40,
As we near retirement, Mom and I wanted to write you kids to share a few thoughts about the lives we’ve lived and the world we’ve left behind for you. We feel this is necessary because at first glance it might seem like we are a...
Oakland Athletics Pitcher Dallas Braden Pitches...
thetickr:
Photo: Getty Images
Dallas Braden pitches the 19th perfect game in Major League Baseball history. Take that A-Rod!
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“Whether we acknowledge it or not, we continue to live within the intellectual...”
– Book Review - Friedrich Nietzsche - A Philosophical Biography - By Julian Young - NYTimes.com
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“They are more diligent than older adults, however, in trying to protect...”
– The Tell-All Generation Learns When Not To, at Least Online - NYTimes.com
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Ansel Adams at work
From the Wisconsin Historical Society
“bitch if i dated you i’d let your tongue find my mouth to shut you the...”
– Out of context, but this is the best thing I’ve heard all morning.