July 2010
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ds3m asked: Do You Like Sports?
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June 2010
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ohheylife-deactivated20110809 asked: I have just handed you a piece of paper and a box of markers. I would like you to draw a childhood experience dear to your heart that you would like to repeat this instant. What are you going to draw?
shamelesshipsterscum asked: Where's Wallace?
godsauce asked: What is the best television show?
Anonymous asked: Who are your favorite prose authors?
Anonymous asked: Which bear is best?
ds3m asked: How many cats is too much?
Anonymous asked: What is your favorite curse word?
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“kiri-
just now i walked out of my apartment barefoot while sonic youth was...”
– Allison via email
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“It’s not that I don’t accept God, you must understand; it’s the world created by...”
– Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov.
“Why is the world ugly when you made it in your image?” -The Roots, Dear God 2.0
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“Stephen Fry was born in the twentieth century and will die in the twenty-first....”
– About the Author - The Hippopotamus (via prudence-never-pays)
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The Roots - How I Got Over →
Above everything else that defines them, the Roots are capital-P Professionals. That’s why they’re perfect for their “Late Night” job. They don’t fit there because, as critics would say, they’re easily digestible; they fit because they’re versatile and consistently operate at a high level. They’re encyclopedic music scholars who’re proud...
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allisonjputnam:
couscous
this was the article that dad and i talked about for a while this afternoon.
and you know, the nature of the built environment of supermarkets
also we came up with the title “a carefully considered collection of pulp fiction” for…something
If you’re not following Allison then like WHAT are you even doing with yourself.
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Death by Gadget in Congo →
allisonjputnam:
in an art class a while ago, we had a presentation in a girl’s apartment. She kept her dog in the closet the whole time so as not to bother the people in the room.
Not to diminish the horror of violence in central Africa, but the experience of simultaneous suffering and sublimity seems most appropriate to any sort of global perspective on art-making.
but then maybe the...
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Emerson on Self-Reliance →
So use all that is called Fortune. Most men gamble with her, and gain all, and lose all, as her wheel rolls. But do thou leave as unlawful these winnings, and deal with Cause and Effect, the chancellors of God. In the Will work and acquire, and thou hast chained the wheel of Chance, and shalt sit hereafter out of fear from her rotations. A political victory, a rise of rents, the recovery...
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"Ode to the Artichoke" by Pablo Neruda
This is one of my favorite poems, about one of my favorite vegetables incidentally. There’s something unspeakably poetic about artichokes, though I suppose it’s not so unspeakable if you happen to be Pablo Neruda. So many terrible translations of this abound; the best ones are the simplest ones. (“Crazy” instead of “demoniac;” “mush” instead of...
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“I went to see Colin Meloy once and he came out for the encore and started...”
– Caleb Pickard
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“The best moments in reading are when you come across something - a thought, a...”
– The History Boys (via rainysky) (via prudence-never-pays)
I felt this exact feeling while reading If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino. I was on an airplane and the feeling he was describing was that of being nowhere in the world while on a plane. Geographically nowhere,...
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“SO I was in a tracking session the other night and the drummer looks up through...”
– Sunny Mack-Hansen
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