February 2008
15 posts
“The chairs and the stones don’t need to be loved- they’re cool on...”
– Professor Robert Thurman, talking about Buddhist love, yesterday, in a discussion about guilt with Steven Pinker and William Todd.
Oh yeah- also, he’s Uma’s dad. Not to mention that his wife, Nena Thurman, is a psychotherapist and ex-model who used to be married to Timothy Leary! What...
“If you feel no guilt, you are either a perfect person, a robot, or a psychopath.”
– Steven Pinker
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My interview with Michel Gondry →
Here’s the link to the final version that came out last week in the arts section of the Crimson. Enyoy!
forget boots with the fur! →
…why get boots with the fur when you can get THIS??
Oscar hangover →
The dresses, I think, are the number 1 reason to be a movie star. Not just the dresses, but this impeccable pose and air, the perfect ability to pull a dress off. Actresses just have it, in a way that normal people don’t. Except, of course, for Juno.
When does cheese go bad? →
Just look at the first answer. What the heck? Not to mention that the other answers are basically completely useless.
Three-way! Magnetic Fields audio hijack from...
The fake hit pop song: She Amazed Me →
The creator of Dilbert thought that it couldn’t be too hard to create a hit pop song from random lyrics. So he requested random lyrics from the readers of his blog, and sent them to a band in Germany named RIVO DREI. The result is truly top 40 worthy! Perhaps even better than there the likes of LFO and BBMak.
“She had runaway eyes and marshmallow kittens. My heart heard a dream like...
An acoustic version of Magnetic Fields singing...
Six word memoirs! →
It started as a contest: “Your life story in six words.” Now, it’s a book.
“The editors have culled the best. And, happily, spliced in celebrity autobiographies: ‘Canada freezing. Gotham beckons. Hello, Si!’ ‘Well, I thought it was funny.’ ‘Couldn’t cope so I wrote songs.’ (Graydon Carter, Stephen Colbert, Aimee Mann.) Mario Batali...
"Are Americans Hostile to Knowledge?" →
Susan Jacoby, an author and director of the New York branch of the Center for Inquiry, has recently published a book called The Age of American Unreason, which criticizes American anti-intellectualism. She decided to write the book on 9/11, when she heard this converation in a bar:
” ‘This is just like Pearl Harbor,’
’What is Pearl Harbor?’
‘That was when...
"Gong xi fa cai. Happy New Year." →
I had been taught as a child that “Happy New Year” in Chinese was pronounced “Gong Hay Fat Choy.” In a childlike spirit of newness and joy, I have been gaily cavorting around Mather, hailing my Chinese friends with, “ah! Gong Hay Fat Choy!” only to receive looks of confusion in return.
Now I understand why— this article reiterates that not only has...