May 2012
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“A woman happily in love, she burns the soufflé. A woman unhappily in love, she...”
– Baron St. Fontanel, Sabrina (1954)
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“You know the famous traveling pants of the sisterhood? These pants banged them.”
– Laura Jayne Martin, An Ode to Life-Changing Pants
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HOW TV BROUGHT GAY PEOPLE INTO OUR HOMES In one of the most talked-about moments from the hit TV show Glee, Blaine declared his love for Kurt and then — they kissed.
Glee is just one of many popular shows on television right now that feature gay characters. Those characters aren’t just entertaining us, they’re changing Americans’ attitudes toward homosexuality.
In five separate...
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“I shiver as I listen to each log crash and slam:
The echoes are as dull as...”
– from Charles Baudelaire, “Autumn”
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“…at a certain point I’ve just concluded that for me personally it is...”
– President Barack Obama
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“Ch-Check It Out” is the always best music film and you will be realizing...”
– Nathanial Hornblower, real name is Adam Yauch from a Letter to the Editor addressed to NY Times about their review of the Beastie Boys music video for “Ch-Check It Out”
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April 2012
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WIND MAP Think of a patch of ground on a sunny day. Sunshine pours down. The air gets warmer. Along comes a cloud, not a big one, but big enough to cast a shadow. The air in that shadow cools a little.
Now we’ve got a difference: cool air is sitting next to warm air—and the air that’s warming up is getting lighter. The air that’s cooling down is getting heavier, and as the...
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“I am convinced that the future is lost somewhere in the dumps of the...”
– Robert Smithson, A Tour of the Monuments of Passaic, New Jersey
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10 CLUES TO UNLOCKING “MULHOLLAND DRIVE”
Pay particular attention in the beginning of the film: at least two clues are revealed before the credits.
Notice appearances of the red lampshade.
Can you hear the title of the film that Adam Kesher is auditioning actresses for? Is it mentioned again?
An accident is a terrible event… notice the location of the accident.
Who gives a key,...
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CHIODO SCACCIA CHIODO Hair of the dog is a colloquial expression in the English language predominantly used to refer to alcohol that is consumed with the aim of lessening the effects of a hangover. The expression originally referred to a method of treatment of a rabid dog bite by placing hair from the dog in the bite wound. Ebenezer Cobham Brewer writes in the Dictionary of Phrase and...
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SEPERATION
Your absence has gone through me Like thread through a needle. Everything I do is stitched with its color.
W. S. Merwin
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TOP FIVE REGRETS OF THE DYING: Bronnie Ware is an Australian nurse who spent several years working in palliative care, caring for patients in the last 12 weeks of their lives. She recorded their dying epiphanies in a blog called Inspiration and Chai, which gathered so much attention that she put her observations into a book called The Top Five Regrets of the Dying.
1. I wish I’d had the...
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March 2012
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DON DRAPER’S BEST LINES
“Maybe I’m not as comfortable being powerless as you are.” Season one, New Amsterdam
“People tell you who they are, but we ignore it because we want them to be who we want them to be.” Season four, The Summer Man
“I keep going to a lot of places and ending up somewhere I’ve already been.” Season three, Out of Town
“Change is neither good or bad, it simply is.”...
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“Saloons provide moments of genuine ecstasy—but only if your soul is at peace and...”
– Wilfrid Sheed, The Good Word & Other Words
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Watch‘SIMPSONS’ PAYS HOMAGE TO ‘GAME OF THRONES’ The Simpsons revised its opening credits on Sunday in honor of HBO’s returning fantasy epic Game of Thrones.
In the new opening sequence, shown before the episode “Exit Through the Kwik-E-Mart,” familiar Springfield locations such as Moe’s and the Kwik-E-Mart are given the clockwork rising from the ground...