May 10, 2009
In other words, that kind of weird post-relationship situation where there’s no more sex, but you still rely on each other for all of your emotional needs. You know, all the work of the relationship but none of the sheer physical pleasure? That was our thing.—Ira Glass, “Get Over It!”
May 10, 2009
Help,” the working Account Representative called, feeling the stir of a tinily remembered humid wind and pausing, again, to look behind him, past the Brougham’s black hood and the carelessly dropped safety helmet beside the white cycle, at the Ramp that spiraled up out of sight toward a street, empty and bright, before the Building, empty and bright, dispossessed, autonomous and autonomic.—DFW, GWCH, 52
May 10, 2009
Saw _Star Trek_ (2009). Very good. Like a modern _A New Hope_, with a bigger budget. And time travel.
May 9, 2009
We may need to seek them out and destroy them where they live,” said one email, from a Merck employee.—“The danger of drugs … and data”, The Guardian
May 8, 2009
The best moment of love is likely to be when the lover leaves in the taxi.—Michel Foucault, cited by Laura Kipnis, Against Love
May 8, 2009
Robert Shiller: “Take this whole stress test. It’s a snow job, actually. That’s what it is. They don’t really know!” (Harvard Book Store)
May 8, 2009
Robert Shiller: Obama has the Congress, just like FDR did, but he’s not being as adventuresome. Larry Summers is too conservative.
May 8, 2009
Finished _The Option of Urbanism_. Fantastic introduction to building nice neighborhoods. http://books.theinfo.org/go/159726136X
May 7, 2009
Reading Donald Shoup’s _The High Cost of Free Parking_. I was skeptical of a 700-page book, but it’s fantastic. Free parking really is evil.
May 6, 2009
Launched http://sestakvote.boldprogressives.org this morning; on a panel at the MIT Museum tonight.
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