The Opposite of Wit

PEN Honors Chinese Writer, Dissident, and Political Prisoner Liu Xiaobo

You’re a grad student writing your dissertation. You’ve toiled long and hard. You’ve stared down papers that resisted being written at 3 A.M., and hit the bar when the sun came up. You’ve corrected the tortuous prose of undergraduates, and inflated their grades because you’re a nice person. You’ve learned to read Latin, Greek, Spanish, Swedish, and even a bit of Mandarin. You have ideas. You are a god. But do you know how to blog?

“I think everyone just needs to draw some breath on this and I think we need to see a greater atmosphere of general calm.” - Kevin Rudd

Baba Ramdev + Yogic meditation = No Racist violence.

Brilliant!

Say no to hurling petrol bombs and yes to suryanamaskar!

Unless the government is trying to design horrible Montauk monsters that will eat IEDs and fart fire at bad Iraqis, we’re not sure why they would create such an unthinkable beast

Scaryass creature, nonetheless.

*Title borrowed from the commenters.

How sweet was it when that giant robot hand reached in through the roof and grabbed that old lady?” …… “Or when those motorcycle terminators detached from its legs and started speeding toward the escaping resistance fighters? Holy crap, was that fucking cool or what?”

- JD Salinger.

(Snigger)

Love The road and the house love me, the living and the dead, and a red clay jug at home loved by water. The neighbor loves me, the field, the threshing floor, and fire. Toiling arms love me glad for the world, and gladdening. And tatters of my brother scattered about, torn from his wilted chest hidden by wheat spikes and season, a carnelian from which blood shies away. He was the god of love as long as I lived. What will love do, if I too am gone? Linkage

Wynton kept mentioning this cat Thelonious Monk. And we thought, that’s a hell of a name!” On the name alone, they located a Monk cassette and listened to it over and over. It was the start of Gilchrist’s forging of his own piano identity - one clearly marked by the melding of percussiveness and angularity that Monk pioneered.

- Lafayette Gilchrist

From Siddhartha Mitter, on whom I have gianormous secret crush!

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The origin of Mahler Grooves