February 2012
17 posts
“I’m really gonna drink a lot tonight.”
– Meryl Streep, on the thank-you cam after winning her third Oscar. (via washingtonpoststyle)
The headline, the tweet, and the unfair... →
As my friend pointed out at that softball game, these contraptions only make sense within the narrowest and most personal of contexts — a largely identified kid trying on whatever feels right, a generation of immigrant children trying to orient themselves within a racially polarized landscape. But that’s exactly why Jeremy Lin, while stirring up unknown depths of pride, has also...
“This morning, with her, having coffee.”
– Johnny Cash, when asked for his definition of paradise. + (via moonandmoon)
On David Brooks →
Brooks is operating in a long tradition of public intellectualism. Like William Whyte, another child of Philadelphia’s western suburbs fascinated with the interplay of money and manners among his contemporaries, Brooks is a journalist who works on sociological turf. But Whyte, who was an editor for Fortune in the 1950s, observed how people lived, inferred trends, considered what they...
How can anyone be a Chris Brown fan after he did... →
A verbal argument ensued and Brown pulled the vehicle over on an unknown street, reached over Robyn F. with his right hand, opened the car door and attempted to force her out. Brown was unable to force Robyn F. out of the vehicle because she was wearing a seat belt. When he could not force her to exit, he took his right hand and shoved her head against he passenger window of the vehicle,...
“Grandpa Alexander once said: “They think in the future it is going to be so...”
– Amos Oz, A Tale of Love and Darkness