From the category archives:
Dominique Browning, the world’s most gracious and generous book reviewer, is of course better known for her H&G columns; her book, Around the House and in the Garden, and now her new book, Slow Love Life. But you should also take a look at her new blog, slowlovelife.com: it’s like walking outside and breathing
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I was in Acapulco before Christmas with some friends one of whom was wearing rolled up jeans, an untucked shirt and a cap on sideways and I said she looked like a kid from the Our Gang comedies, and she pulled out her phone and showed me this picture of herself taken when she was
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There’s a great post by Gerald Dworkin in 3quarks daily of short funny philosophical comments. My favorite bit:
Jewish philosophy
1) Logic: P, so why not Q?
2) Ethics : Can implies Don’t
3) Metaphysics_:_This is the best of all possible worlds?
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okay, okay…so I wrote marshal law instead of martial law. do you know what time it was when i wrote that? I was sleep-blogging. Anyway, for all you know, there is a very bossy person named Marshal who lays down the law here.
Today we had to vacuum and clean the bathrooms and iron the duvet
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It’s been a while, but here is what I have to say:
I’m still reading Tristram Shandy. I have been reading Tristram Shandy for about fifteen years, but now I’m well into it. And still nothing has happened! But I just read a great passage on noses. There are many great passages on noses in Tristram
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Sometimes people come up to me and say, “I could write a novel about my life.” I think I have committed the same act of hubris in the blog genre. I am a bad blogger. And I apologize. I am a blog sloth and my blog should be called a slog. I only blog when
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scotch tape…
thank you, 3quarksdaily
as always
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I hope the Mormon Church doesn’t find out, but I am a Typophile. I suspected, but didn’t know for sure until I came upon this web site. click here
They have contests! Here is one of may favorite entries in the 3D contest:
It’s by David Williams. I don’t know who he is, except that he is
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Our wonderful friend Anne, who is a curator, took us to the old Huntington Hartford Museum which is now the Museum of Art and Design.Do not miss the three floors of re-purposed art. And best of all was the impossibly delicate and tender work of Yuken Teruya. The trees are cut out of paper bags.
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Andrew Sullivan, to whose blog I retreat at least thirty times daily, has a link to a wonderful photographer, Meg Wachter. She dumped gooey food on the heads of her friends and filmed their reactions. It’s CATHARTIC. It’s GORGEOUS.
click here dumped
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