January 2012
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“If one raises a speck of dust, the house and the nation prosper. If one does not raise a speck of dust, they perish.”
- Fuketsu Enshō delivering the zen State of the Union
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LS: If a time-traveller from the past landed in the present at a rave during Skrillex, do you think he'd go back to his civilization and try to end it?
ML: Why do you think empires fall?
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Edwardian Excess
I saw War Horse last Saturday and, apart from it being saccharine to the point that the rations board should have punished Steven Spielberg for hoarding sugar, it kind of got me in a pre-World War I spirit—spirit enough to spend this week catching up on Downton Abbey and starting Barbara Tuchman’s The Guns of August. This is all part of my base camp training exercises to build up enough...
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"Huntsman drops out, but then drops back in,...
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“Leave the lads who tamely drink
With Gideon by the water brink,
But search the...”
– Robert Graves, “Strong Beer”
December 2011
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"I once tried to write an article, perhaps rather... →
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Little People feat. Eckhart Tolle “Unsaid...
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Bodega bought and chilled in the Harlem night ‘twould make the olden Dutchmen sneer To learn it was a Spanish beer.
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"Bad things make your brain stronger. They push... →
claytoncubitt:
My friend Susannah Breslin, on dealing with her diagnosis of breast cancer
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November 2011
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