Woolf: words fail me
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Monthly Archives: April 2009
amazing and dangerous
Momo wrote a little post on Hyperwords 5.5, a super-cool Firefox plugin. Here’s what it does: Of course I immediately installed it. And then I realized that this is a mildly dangerous thing for me to have, because I can … Continue reading
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Philip Lorca diCorcia on authorship
CC: One of the reasons that you are a celebrated, feted contemporary artist is that your bodies of work such as Hustlers and Heads do have really strong authorship. I mean this in the sense that in this world, where … Continue reading
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things I have watched PhD students do in the service of mental health and procrastination
Or, what tends to happen when people who never take on small projects need to distract themselves*. Bodybuilding Figure competition Weekly triathloning Marathoning Weeks-long wilderness expeditions with only a knife and a kayak Daily gourmet cooking 100% local food sourcing … Continue reading
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Creepy Tom
This is a stuffed Thomas Edison who’s been living in my garlic basket for the past 2 years. He’s not so bad to have around — he’s quiet, even though he’s constantly wearing black lip liner and waving his light … Continue reading
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all of a piece
Science and literature are not two things, but two sides of the same thing. (Huxley) (via The Bogglish Huderon)
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beautifully ordinary
I didn’t go to sleep with the writing blues, but I certainly woke up with them. Hence a list of beautifully ordinary things, prompted by Soule Mama: – Morning coffee in my big red cup that’s really more like a … Continue reading
Disney autoplagiarism
(via Krause)
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13 most beautiful
Trailer for 13 Most Beautiful… songs for Andy Warhol’s screen tests. 1. I am so there for this sort of thing. 2. 22 is always beautiful and mysterious, particularly with good lighting. 3. But not the sort of marvelous mysteriousness … Continue reading
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The Poet’s Breakfast
— Ron Padgett What does a writer do? A writer sits and goes through hell. I‚Äôm not exactly going through hell, but then, I‚Äôm not driven by the belief that the world is waiting for my next bit of hard- … Continue reading
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Welcome to Thinkery, est. 2003. At the moment, I'm an Assistant Professor of Rhetoric and Writing at Syracuse University. I'm interested in new media, historical conceptions of authorship, and human/machine agency. I write about all of that elsewhere, mostly, and keep this space for other areas of investigation about the world: namely, cooking, gardening, and travel.
