December 2009
33 posts
Miike Snow: In Search Of. A song to keep you...
“It’s useless trying to imprison people in dilemmas; life always causes...”
– Also de Beauvoir. I can’t put this book down.
“Why does healing so often mean mutilating?”
– Simone de Beauvoir. The Mandarins
A FORMER INVESTMENT BANKER ANALYST FALLS BACK ON...
Priceless. By Helen Coster of McSweeney’s.
1. Explain why you want to attend law school.
I want to attend law school because I want to make a difference in the world. My desire to attend law school has nothing to do with the fact that I was recently fired from my job as an analyst at an investment bank, where I worked in the mergers and acquisitions group. Since January, I’ve worked...
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Fall Internship Pays Off With Coveted Winter...
Basically FML. From: here.
NEW YORK—New York University student Dave Werner announced Monday that he has successfully parlayed an unpaid fall internship at the magazine GQ into a long-sought-after unpaid winter internship at the ESPN network. “After three months spent fetching coffee and making copies, all my hard work has finally paid off,” the 21-year-old communications major said...
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Gypsy and the Cat: Jona Vark. Genius genius...
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A Facebook Christmas Love Story
I would normally post just a link, but I read this in the New York Times today, while vegetating on the first day of Christmas in Warsaw, and felt the urge to share it immediately. Lest modernity jade us with its instant messages and overabundance of choice devoid of meaning, here’s testimony to the timeless feeling that in falling in love, the unfolding of the universe has been a series of...
Watch“She says I’m not romantic,
I say she’s too dramatic…
I tell her while we’re at it: we can work it night by night.”
-Chromeo
This makes me miss dancing.
“To have that sense of one’s intrinsic worth which constitutes self-respect is...”
– Joan Didion
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Watchit’s so hard not to love Italians…And that mirror choreography! Enjoy a little feature from Schmictoria.
“Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made.”
– Otto von Bismarck. Just so you know.
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Doing God's Work →
Should you ever be sent to Tooting Bec for a national insurance number interview, let me tell you—it’s really effing far. Conveniently, this article is longer than the eternal tube ride that it takes to get there, and though I started reading it on the train I almost failed my interview because I surreptitiously pulled Vanity Fair out of my bag to read a few more paragraphs.
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Paul Samuelson, the man whose iconic textbook was... →
Known to have said, “women are men without money.” This article about his many academic successes made me giddy in the way that reading philosophy always does.
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“You can talk about it like a lawyer, you...
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Weekend Reads
David Brooks takes a sober look at Hannukah, Vanity Fair features Hadron Collider glamour shots, and Elizabeth Weil attempts to improve a great marriage and comes to some important conclusions. Also: VF’s big in the aughties list made me realize how silly our ipod-toting will look in retrospect.
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"You are beautiful and even if you are a liar and... →
The romantic in me wants to believe in missed connections…but only until I actually read the personals there. Incidentally, there was a time in my life when I listened to this song far too much.
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On Kandinsky and art, humanity and science, and... →
An article by Natalie Angier, author of Woman: An Intimate Geography, a book I once started but abandoned. I guess I manage to navigate without guidance. …Anyway, my favorite part:
I also learned of Kandinsky’s growing love affair with the circle. The circle, he wrote, is “the most modest form, but asserts itself unconditionally.” It is “simultaneously stable and unstable,” “loud and...
“The national anthem belongs to the eighteenth century. In it you find us...”
– George Bernard Shaw. Found here.
I am developing a crush on David Brooks... →
This man casually navigates Isaiah Berlin, Friedrich Hayek, Reinhold Niebuhr, throws in some Weberian typologies, and lucidly interprets the Obama administration. Take that, Maureen!
Watchfox reports from the harvard-yale game….hihihihi
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“Brobdingnagian”
– Word of the day, via Rob!
Adjective. Meaning: marked by tremendous size
\ˌbräb-diŋ-ˈna-gē-ən, -dig-ˈna-\
Etymology: Brobdingnag, imaginary land of giants in Gulliver’s Travels, by Jonathan Swift; Date: 1728.
Use it in a sentence! Or just to describe a hug.
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Defining a New Capitalism
I don’t pretend to have a radical (much less a correct) answer, but in all honesty, I think we’re likely to go on existing much as we have been. I foresee no imminent end of civilization as we know it. Nor do I predict some counter-movement towards socialism. (Certainly my Hayekian gradualism and working at an investment bank might have a lot to do with this position…)
When...
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Wild Eyes, by Local Natives. I have the...