January 2010
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Settling for Mr. Good Enough →
Lori Gottlieb recently wrote a book in which she makes a case for “settling” for a decent man; this 2008 article from The Atlantic is a prototype of that argument. I still can’t decide how I feel about her position. On the one hand she is dryly pragmatic and describes marriage as a “a partnership formed to run a very small, mundane, and often boring nonprofit...
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Of Love and Terminal 5
Imagine, if you can, six year old Kaja standing with her dad on the viewing deck of Warsaw’s old airport (out of use for years now). We are watching my mother’s plane land and he warns me not to drop my bear onto the tarmac, because it would no longer be in Poland and could never be returned to me without a passport. At bottom, I still think about airports as these special-access islands of no...
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Lymbyc Systym: “Bedroom Anthem”=My...
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compare the meerkat
Me: can you imagine if there was reincarnation and i came back as a tapir
Aneil: lol i hope there is reincarnation and we all come back as meerkats lol
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Vetiver’s “Been So Long.” It...
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Stitching the World Together
A reverie, found in Caroline’s gchat status (thank you Caro!), that feels like it could have been written by any one of my friends. Though there are no real answers to the big outstanding questions—will we settle? can we attach ourselves to others?—there’s comfort in typologies and in knowing that someone out there shares our thoughts exactly. Where do you fit in, global...
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Wikipedia List of Unusual Entries
In case your year is off to a slow start, like mine, and you are in dire need of some fairly useless trivia, follow Charlie’s lead and head to Wikipedia’s list of unusual entries.
sophistry:
Some absolutely amazing entries are catalogued on this list, including the town of Argleton which only exists on googlemaps, and the Ferdinand Cheval, being a huge building built by a postman...
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“Hey. Good morning. Watch the sun come up,...
A cover of Leonard Cohen’s “Everybody...
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This poem has been haunting me
Alexandra Leaving, by Leonard Cohen
Suddenly the night has grown colder. Some deity preparing to depart. Alexandra hoisted on his shoulder, they slip between the sentries of your heart. Upheld by the simplicities of pleasure, they gain the light, they formlessly entwine; and radiant beyond your widest measure they fall among the voices and the wine. lt’s not a trick, your senses all...
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Bono's Top Ten →
I’m not a huge fan of Bono and I think U2 is one of the more overrated bands ever, but some of his top ten ideas for the next decade really helped restore my optimism. The cure for cancer! Teleportation! Sexy cars!
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Florence and the Machine: Rabbit Heart [Raise it...
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Weltanschauung For 2010 (hooray for gratuitous...
In university, I took a course on modern European history. I chose it mostly because the professor had a comb-over like I’d never seen before (it would flop from side to side in greasy strands when he got excited), but I never regretted it. The assigned reading list included one of his own books, but I have since lent it out and it remains somewhere in Baltimore, so I can’t look up this...