“This is not an audition for the Bohemia life before I return to my family’s house in the suburbs, or get a job at a financial firm owned by my father’s friend. I don’t have a family in the suburbs, and my father doesn’t have those friends.” —
Young, Privileged, and Applying for Food Stamps | The Billfold
important words
For the rational infant
Mine was Fargo Rock City, which I flung across a hotel room in Walt Disney World’s Animal Kingdom Resort in 2001.
I’m in the middle of Fargo Rock City and I have several times come close to doing this. I can’t remember the last time I started reading a book with such high expectations… and ended up being annoyed SO MUCH.
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“I am always so shocked when anyone thinks of an insult about me that I haven’t already considered,” she says. “I am, like, ‘Oh, my God, you’re good.’ ” —
Lena Dunham on YouTube, Twitter, and film : The New Yorker
Simpler times
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“Catherine Nay, his biographer, calls Mr. Sarkozy a terrible communicator. “He never capitalizes on his successes, he changes the subject every day, people forget the next day what he did the day before, he fogs the brain,” she said. “He’s the victim of too fiery a temperament.” —
Sarkozy Re-election Bid in Trouble - NYTimes.com
Sometimes even in translation French people just sound so French.
Cookie trying to escape
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Netflix Instant watch doesn’t take my attempts to search for exercise videos very seriously.
Blue Lines Revisited: Grim Realisation -
gleaned from following Longreads for a while: there’s a generic style/technique to longform writing which annoys me, a patina of “good writing” tricks which is hard to pin down but becomes more obvious the more “great pieces” you read. Eg this ending on a NYT piece about games:
Lantz told me…
It’s clear we’re in a longreads bubble! Bloated NYT features are this year’s mortgage-backed CDOs. Call your broker and tell them to put all your money in cat .gifs!
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