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50 Useful Tools and Resources For Web Designers
I feel dirty every time I link to one of these round-up posts, but there’s some legitimately useful stuff on this one.
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I think avant-garde fiction has already gone the way of poetry. And it’s become involuted and forgotten the reader. Put it this way, there are a few really good poets who suffered because of the desiccation and involution of poetry, but for the most part I think American poetry has gotten what it’s deserved. And, uh, it’ll come awake again when poets start speaking to people who have to pay the rent, and fuck the same woman for thirty years. That’s off the record: that’s really nasty.
David Foster Wallace, quoted in Although Of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself.
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"Prayer for the Man Who Mugged My Father, 72" by Charles Harper Webb
Love the use of rhyme in the last two lines.
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The Top Idea in Your Mind
I’ve found there are two types of thoughts especially worth avoiding—thoughts like the Nile Perch in the way they push out more interesting ideas. One I’ve already mentioned: thoughts about money. Getting money is almost by definition an attention sink. The other is disputes. These too are engaging in the wrong way: they have the same velcro-like shape as genuinely interesting ideas, but without the substance. So avoid disputes if you want to get real work done. [3]
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1 Notes
My friend Bethany started a poem-by-postcard project this summer. She sent me one last week. Now I’m sending one back.
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SCARY, NO SCARY
One of the creepiest poems I’ve ever read. Well done.
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Negative health effects of sedentary work not undone by exercise
Worth reading only for this comment:
Thank you for this exotic pile of research ordure. You — that is the pea-brained hippogriffs who designed these studies — have managed to finagle reality into some existential nightmare that might make even a dour, gymless rat like Jean Paul-Sartre collapse in despair — even though he was already in despair. Despair squared! Cubed! Mega-Cubed. We’re talkin’ despair. Any decent supermax Prison Guard (surely comparable in moral dignity to the average researcher sited here) could tell you that if you cage a guy for 23 hours a day and then let him out to exercise only to pace on a doily for an hour then Mr. Man (sexist pigs!! where are the comparable women’s studies!!) won’t be superfit. Uh, duh? Of course it ALL depends on length of time “sitting” vs. “working out.” Do they really expect us to parse from these findings that a 23-hour workout following an hour of couch potatoing will not offset the physical effects? We have a technical term to refer to such stacked research: lame. Maybe participants in the studies were forced to watch endless re-runs of “Petticoat Junction” followed by a “workout’ that consisted of bench pressing a case of Almond Joys into their mouth a then a drive in high-speed bumper-to-bumper in Los Angeles traffic for two hours before arriving home only to be flogged with a garden hose by their miserable spouse and given a bowl of steam for dinner followed by a short, brutish sleep on a bed of nails?
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I Write Like
Paste a sample of your writing, and machine analysis matches it to a famous writer’s prose style.
My zombie essay returned Margaret Atwood.
