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/
“Don’t plant your bad days. They grow into weeks. The weeks grow into months....”
– Tom Waits (via cardboardantlers)
February 2012
3 posts
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...
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
December 2011
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August 2011
4 posts
Words to Try to Use in Colloquial Speech Without...
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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...
July 2011
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January 2011
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“…there is one sure thing about the fall of gods: they do not fall a...”
– — Steinbeck, “East of Eden”
— via Slaughterhouse 90210
November 2010
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Watchbecause we all loves us some waves over the bow…
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