May 2012
15 posts
April 2012
2 posts
March 2012
18 posts
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"KEEP THINKING"
SUSAN SONTAG’S NOTES ON CAMP
Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for...
– Henri Frederic Amiel
You tend to rebel against what you grew up with, and for me I was ready to trade...
– Pendulums, Tea, and Jack Cheng
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The danger is that it’s just talk. Then again, the danger is that it’s not. I...
– Jay-Z, Decoded, 2010
The nonprofit model, ‘replicates historical oppression by keeping funders...
– The Revolution Will Not Be Funded, South End Press 2007. In Do It Anyway: A New Generatio nof Activists, Courtney E. Martin
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When software developer Brad Isaac asked Jerry Seinfeld, who in those days was...
– Jack Cheng, 30 Minutes a Day: A Memory Schedule [PDF] Pimsleur’s article in the Modern Language Journal (1967).
If you had the absolute, perfect setup, you would stop trying to change, stop...
– Jack Cheng on Daniel Bogan’s The Setup
February 2012
44 posts
We’re just kids to say the least… we’ve got ideas… to us...
– Black Francis
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AS: Can you tell us about how you came to live in New York? ML: I came to New York to study fine arts at Pratt Institute. That was in 2005. I originally wanted to pursue painting, but I became obsessed with printmaking and the idea of publishing––making multiples and stuff. I have always been obsessed with zines, so that’s really where my interest in publishing came from. AS: And now you do...
True, the benefits of living alone are many: freedom to come and go as you...
– One Is the Quirkiest Number, The Freedom, and Perils, of Living Alone — NYTimes
1 in every 4 American households is occupied by someone living alone; in Manhattan, mythic land of the singleton, the number is nearly 1 in 2.
At the opening I was touched and surprised. People would come up to me with...
– Gran Fury: Read My Lips, curated by Gran Fury and Michael Cohen
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