Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.Steve Jobs
December 31, 2009 – 10:27 am
If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe. Carl Sagan
Uncle Ben
September 4, 2009 – 7:15 pm
With great power comes great responsibility. Uncle Ben (Spiderman movie 2002)
August 4, 2009 – 3:34 pm
Rondeau After a Transatlantic Phone Call
Love, it was good to talk to you tonight.
You lather me like summer though. I light
up, sip smoke. Insistent through walls comes
the downstairs neighbor’s double-bass. It thrums
like toothache. I will shower away the sweat,
smoke, summer, sound. Slick, soapy, dripping wet,
I scrub the sharp edge off my appetite.
I want: crisp toast, cold wine prickling my gums,
love. It was good
imagining around your voice, you, late-
awake there. (It isn’t midnight yet
here.) This last glass washes down the crumbs.
I wish that I could lie down in your arms
and, turned toward sleep there (later), say, “Goodnight,
love. It was good.”
Marilyn Hacker
July 20, 2009 – 11:49 am
“Man is a little germ that lives on an unimportant rock ball that revolves about a small star at the outskirts of an ordinary galaxy… …I am absolutely amazed to discover myself on this rock ball rotating around a spherical fire. It’s a very odd situation. And the more I look at things I cannot get rid of the feeling that existence is quite weird.”
- Alan W. Watts
February 27, 2009 – 9:47 am
The Château La Croix opens up in the glass, developing a full body and a luscious texture, and really hits its stride by the sixteenth bottle.
Noah Baumbach, The New Yorker, Shouts & Murmurs Mouse au Vin
What’s that smell?
February 24, 2009 – 3:37 pm
The light at the end of the tunnel is a burning zombie.