December 2010
22 posts
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“But the law […] was written so broadly that allowable humanitarian aid has...”
– U.S. Has Approved Billions in Business With Blacklisted Nations - NYTimes.com
me: i am dying to get to the new year
Joshua: same
me: i've got good feelings about 2011
Joshua: great!
me: i think we will all be extremely respected individuals
me: and we'll all be eating in pill form
Joshua: sure
Joshua: I got my unitard yesterday
Joshua: which is nice
Joshua: red, which is somewhat troubling
Joshua: but it probably means nothing
“Yeah, right, it’s you know, it’s glass, it’s broken glass, you know? It sells...”
– Irwin Mainway
“What are we in the service of in these shows? Are we wanting to illuminate the...”
– Ken Burns on reality television (via Vulture)
“The real consensus, i.e. the consensus of actual human beings, outside...”
– Matt Taibbi. His latest column, Matt Bai’s Post-Partisanship, is chock full of good stuff.
One editor at a major publishing house, who agreed to speak on condition of anonymity for fear of employer sanctions, told me that agents of Barnes & Noble, Borders, and Target are frequent participants in meetings about potential books. Without their buy-in, the publisher is unlikely to go forward with a book. Ideas that excite independents might be scrapped if they don’t get a chain’s stamp...
