January 2010
18 posts
“I need a better word than unprecedented or amazing to describe what’s happened...”
– Roger Lowe, a Red Cross spokesman, on a campaign that has brought in $22 million in pledges since the earthquake in Haiti.
Quotation of the Week // New York Times
(via whatsthebeef)
“I hope to hell that when I do die somebody has the sense to just dump me in the...”
– J.D. Salinger
Getting ready this morning, I was trying to think of how Muse’s ‘Hysteria’ goes. For the life of me, I couldn’t think of it. Shower, breakfast, getting lunch together—nothing. Driving to work, getting gas, driving further—nada. Get to work, make coffee, sit down at my computer—zilch.
As I click on the iTunes icon, the opening starts playing in my head.
I...
“Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.”
– William Butler Yeats
“That is the beauty of branding: brutalized, used like an instrument, it turns...”
– Pierre d’Huy (via whatsthebeef)
“By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son...”
– Charles Wadsworth (via rulesformyunbornson)
“‘Most people make the mistake of thinking design is what it looks like,” says...”
– New York Times
Published: November 30, 2003
(via spencerfry)
“Two pricks with 9mm’s. My self-esteem is nonexistent right now.”
– Tony Soprano
January 4, 2010: Back on the Grid
After a relatively successful finale to Don’t Work December, I’m back on Twitter, Tumblr and the rest of the Internet and have a lot of catching up to do.
First things first:
2009 Resolution Review:
1. Start a blog: Hey, cool, done. 2. Write more: Woefully underdone, with the exception of some haiku.
2010 Resolutions:
1. Write more: Always a goal. 2. Read the history of the...