Category: Shorts
Lesson for the day
| February 28, 2010 | Filled under Internerd, Shorts |
Bay Guardian can seize Village Voice Media assets around the country
| January 10, 2010 | Filled under Shorts |
This story, about predatory pricing between alt weeklies in San Francisco, is mildly terrifying in what it might mean for the future of my paycheck. Follow-up.
More books than time
| December 28, 2009 | Filled under Shorts |
I have frequently fretted about my to-read list, which is topping 300 books, and I can’t even manage to read a book a week. At that rate it’ll take me six years to finish the books on my list right now, which multiply exponentially as each day passes.
Right now I’m reading The Little Guide to Your Well-Read Life and here is an appropriate quote from Winston Churchill on owning more books than you’ll ever be able to read:
“If they cannot be your friends, let them at any rate be your acquaintances.”
Sell anything
| November 1, 2009 | Filled under Shorts |
I don’t want to sell anything, buy anything, or process anything as a career. I don’t want to sell anything bought or processed, or buy anything sold or processed, or process anything sold, bought, or processed, or repair anything sold, bought, or processed. You know, as a career, I don’t want to do that. — Lloyd Dobler, Say Anything
Feeling very sick lately of people who seem to base their whole existence on promoting something, or someone, or themselves. Not everything in this world can be bought and sold.
Pale Horse, Pale Rider
| October 28, 2009 | Filled under Shorts |
Recommended humpday reading: If the swine flu thing has you remotely paranoid, try reading Katherine Anne Porter’s definitive short story “Pale Horse, Pale Rider.” Based on her own near-death experience during the WWI flu outbreak. I discovered and fell in love with Porter recently during a class that I hated, but it was almost worth taking the class for the discovery alone. Oddly, Porter seems to be one of the forgotten authors of the 20th century. Her other stories, all largely biographical, are also good.
Big wheel
| October 20, 2009 | Filled under Shorts |
Bicycling has done more to emancipate women than anything else in the world. I stand and rejoice every time I see a woman ride by on a wheel. It gives women a feeling of freedom and self-reliance. — Susan B. Anthony
I bought a new bicycle this weekend and rode it to school today. More inspired than ever to switch to two wheels permanently. It must be the weather.
Women’s restroom, English building, University of Houston
| September 30, 2009 | Filled under Shorts |
If you go home with someone, and they don’t have books, don’t fuck them. — John Waters
