June 2010
“Be careful what you pretend to be because you are what you pretend to be.”
– Kurt Vonnegut (via)
“I cried in English, I cried in French, I cried in all the languages, because...”
– Miranda July, No One Belongs Here More Than You (via)
“Stripping marriage of all its antiquated ancillary benefits—its grubby...”
– Andrew Romano
“All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave...”
– Anatole France (via)
“Pen pals were worth waiting for. Those decorated envelopes that arrived by post,...”
– Liz Danzico
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“Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person’s...”
– C.S. Lewis (via)
WatchA chuckle for your Friday morning, because everyone knows driving a Toyota minivan and rapping about it is totally awesome.
Toronto hospitality.
There was a large, cacophonous group of protesters walking down Yonge Street a few minutes ago, and I could hear them as they passed my apartment. Intrigued, I went downstairs to read some of the signs, find out what they were protesting about, and snap a few photos.
As I stood there, in front of the door to my own building, a police officer (and it was surely a police officer, not one of the...
“Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will...”
– Sir Winston Churchill (via)
“No change in life is easy or comfortable. Working to let go of the pace around...”
– Corey Allan, Slow Down and Enjoy Relationships (via)
“The beauty of a woman is not in the clothes she wears, the figure that she...”
– Audrey Hepburn (via)
“I speak a lot at business schools, and I ask how many people are there to make...”
– John Scharffenberger
“When genuine passion moves you, say what you’ve got to say, and say it hot.”
– D.H. Lawrence (via)
“A beautiful girl can make you dizzy, like you’ve been drinking Jack and Coke all...”
– Beautiful Girls, Taking Back Sunday, (via)
“I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far...”
– Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt (via)
“Everyone applauds the hyper-connectedness we’re experiencing today. The truth is...”
– Richard Ziade, Growing Old Friends (via)
“You hear all the time that people can’t listen to certain music because it...”
– Drew Grant, Your Ex-Boyfriend, Pop Culture, And You (via)
Somewhere.
The new film by Sofia Coppola, Somewhere, opens in six months. (Watch the trailer here.) I’m an unabashed fan of Ms. Coppola’s films — Lost in Translation being among my all-time favorites, and I even liked the much-maligned Marie Antoinette — so it’s no surprise I’m waiting for this one in eager anticipation. But more than that, this looks like a film that appeals to me...
“What a lift, whenever he said my name. It was like getting my number called out...”
– Aimee Bender, The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake (via)
“The need to diet, which we know so well in relation to food, and which runs so...”
– Alain de Botton, On Distraction
WatchI’m not here to shill an Apple product, and to be honest, I don’t think I’ll use FaceTime all that much, but this ad? This advert by Apple to promote their new video-calling feature is what advertising is all about. The ad doesn’t tell you about the cool feature or show you the technology behind it: the ad makes the technology human, shows you how to use the feature, and...
“We are standing up for gays and lesbians, who deserve to be treated as full...”
– Secretary of State Hilary Clinton at the Annual Prayer Breakfast (via)
