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Comparing headlines on news websites.
Headlines on The NY Times:
Wall Street Still Unnerved Despite Rescue of Big Insurer
Candidates Express Concern
Supreme Court's Global Influence is Waning
16 Are Killed in Attack on U.S. Embassy in Yemen
India Grapples With How to Convert Its Farmland Into Factories
Pakistanis Tell of New U.S. Missile Strike
Would-be Chinese Protesters Still Detained
Crews ( Read more... ) -
"If writing did not exist, what terrible depressions we should suffer from!" -Sei Shonagon.
So I've been reading at a fairly steady pace this summer; a habit I'm working to hold onto.
My recent reading list (in no particular order):
The Real Life of Sebastian Knight by Vladimir Nabokov
If On A Winter's Night A Traveler by Italo Calvino
(reread) The Gnostic Gospels by Elaine Pagels
Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman
A Confederacy of Dunces by John ( Read more... ) -
McCain ahead by 40?
I'm not sure where the other 40% went, but I suspect this New York Times posting of a recent Gallup Poll has somehow made a mistake here that falls outside of "statistics" and somewhere between "lies" and "damn lies"..
(ETA: They seemed to have fixed it. They had Barack ranked at 4% and McCain at 44%) -
...and the gods laugh.
They leased the space out.
So much for studio space in the city. I'll have the space for at least the weekend. Better than a kick in the head, I suppose. -
I got studio space!
So I'm setting up a painting studio in the old High-Line offices (about 1500 sq. feet!) on 14th between 9th and 10th Avenues, across from Jeffrey New York. Meatpacking district. Ironically, this is a block away from a building that artists like Matthew Barney no longer have studio space. Most of them can no longer afford the neighborhood. ( Read more... ) -
Nigh Exhaustive Survey continues! (my pre-blog original meme)
Years ago I started a list of odd survey questions that ended with "if you could add another question to this list, what would it be?" So the list grew and grew until it became this little epic inquisition ( Read more... ) -
"So much time and so little to do! Wait. Strike that. Reverse it."
Tonight we leave for Tennessee for roughly ten days. Before we leave, I still have a half-million things to accomplish. I will not be particularly accessible while I'm in TN, what with being in the woods and all. However I will try to get to a place to check my email at some point ( Read more... ) -
Beautiful Paranoia
So I just discovered CS Lewis, Aldous Huxley and John F. Kennedy all died on the same day.
Of the same year.
abort/retry/fail?
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