May 2012
4 posts
Bill Porter in NY Review of Books
Very nice piece by Ian Johnson about Bill Porter, aka 紅松 or Red Pine… he’s always been a Zen rockstar, but now he’s a Zen rockstar in CHINA.  Very cool…! http://www.nybooks.com/blogs/nyrblog/2012/may/29/zen-book-contracts-bill-porter-beijing/
May 30th
“Don’t plant your bad days. They grow into weeks. The weeks grow into months....”
– Tom Waits (via cardboardantlers)
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February 2012
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Bull Shot
It was the Dutchman’s drink.   Beef boullion, vodka, some other damned thing, maybe.  But always served to Hugh Van Es in a Tom Collins glass that was wrapped in this oddly-structured bamboo holder — at least at the Foreign Correspondents’ Club — because the soup was essentially boiling, and despite the vodka, it was still too damned hot to touch the glass. Vanes (fuck...
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Top ten shit things to say
diskgrinder: I think we need space A word in your shell-like You won’t do that again in a hurry We really need to talk Let’s party In situations like these, I always wonder what Jesus would have done They’re not like us Your mother just phoned I have a meeting in the morning Let’s invade poland
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December 2011
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Aug 31st
Words to Try to Use in Colloquial Speech Without...
nevver: truculent sophiology syncretion theophanic noetic festinate flibbertigibbet callithump insouciance exiguous The Centered Librarian [230 MORE]
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How Bad Is News Corp.?
“…There are rat traps throughout News International’s headquarters in Wapping, the old distillery and warehouses where Rupert Murdoch moved his British papers in the late 1980s as a way to break the print unions. There are rat traps even in Murdoch’s own office. And the rats there are very large. Beyond the obvious metaphor that the freely running rats suggest, there’s...
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Jan 20th
“…there is one sure thing about the fall of gods: they do not fall a...”
– — Steinbeck, “East of Eden” — via Slaughterhouse 90210
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WatchWatch
because we all loves us some waves over the bow…
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