December 2008
20 posts
"In Reality, Oliver's Diet Wasn't Truly...
But what if we coldly ask whether Oliver really needed any more — that is, was the Victorian workhouse diet sufficient for a 9-year-old boy? A group of British researchers — two dietitians, a pediatrician and a historian — asked just that question in a study published online Dec. 17 in The British Medical Journal.
… Based on this [Dickens’] description, the researchers assumed that...
Arrested Development stills on Tumblr →
WatchJ. Tritical Mink performs a crepe demo. (ceramic angel = Kate Ross Quillen of Espana)
Thus, before he was ten, Eugene’s brooding spirit was nettled in the complexity of truth and seeming. He could find no words, no answers to the puzzles that baffled and maddened him: he found himself loathing that which bore the stamp of virtue, sick with weariness and horror at what was conidered noble. He was hurled, at eight years, against the torturing paradox of the...
“Human beings, left to themselves, have imagined God in all sorts of shapes; but...”
– the Christmas message of Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury (via ayjay)
“In that world I am unnecessary; I am essentially and fundamentally non-existent...”
– M.M. Bakhtin, in Toward a Philosophy of the Act, on the theoretical world being inhabitable
“She Said She Said” - The Beatles
“Carol, cracker, holly, ivy, mistletoe Dwarf, elf, goblin Abbey, aisle, altar,...”
– Words removed from British children’s dictionary (via viz)
“Life is a comedy for those who think… and a tragedy for those who feel.”
– Horace Walpole (via KP)
New York City Ballet on Vimeo →
“How can one avoid sinking into the mire of common sense if not by becoming a...”
– Julia Kristeva, “A New Type of Intellectual: The Dissident”
WatchThadeous, my awesome nephew, on Thanksgiving and the day after.
“(So much) Past in(side my) Present” -...
The Photographic Dictionary →