March 2011
25 posts
“People think photography is about photographing. To me, it’s about...”
– Lynsey Addario: ‘It’s What I Do’ — Why She Will Cover War Again - NYTimes.com
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“I will forever be able to quote verbatim the words of the critic who concluded a...”
– Hell hath no fury like an author scorned | Jean Hannah Edelstein | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk
“I love fashion but it’s disappointing when you have to sift through a lot of...”
– Tavi is bored of fashion (I am bored of the internet) via style rookie (via somethingchanged)
One of the greatest things about being really interested in something when you’re a teenager is the right to quit being interested - because you are a teenager and you are still figuring out who you...
New Company Promises to Give You a Pretend... →
This makes me sad. Having a pretend girlfriend (or boyfriend) who ‘lives out of town’ used to be such a formative experience in one’s psycho-sexual development. Making up details about them was so helpful in developing a concept of the qualities you would actually like to find in a partner once you became capable of making eye contact with members of the opposite sex. Say it with...
“Yousif! Yousif! Over here!” Yousif turned to look up at me sliding down the sand...”
– Sebastian Meyer writing from Libya for The Common Language Project
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“Diana’s been my friend since about 1985, but I was a fan of hers since I...”
– Neil Gaiman’s Journal: Being Alive. Mostly about Diana.
I wrote to Diana Wynne Jones in 1993, when we were given the assignment in my English class of writing to our favourite writers. Many of my classmates sent missives to dead people but I wrote to Diana Wynne Jones - via her publisher,...
“You will have to forgive me. I am like my grandfather: when he wanted to hunt an...”
– Truly the most astonishing line of all time, to which I responded to the deliverer (a tall 25ish-year-old who approached my friend and me for directions on Kingsway at 10 pm): ‘Is that similar to the situation that you are in now?’
On sportsmanlike driving
I know how to drive. I know how to drive! I learned how to drive at sixteen-going-on-seventeen, in my dad’s green Mercury Tracer, in my mom’s maroon Mercury Sable, in the Driver’s Ed car. Driver’s Ed was at six o’clock in the morning. The car was packed: the gym teacher, me, a girl from my chemistry class, two bad-ass kids in big jackets who I’d only seen before standing on the borderline of the...
“We’ve also had 20 years of an anti-gay hate campaign waged by the religious...”
– Dan Savage, on the continued prevalence of homophobia in today’s teenage world, on today’s Fresh Air. (via nprfreshair)
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I'm an Orange prize convert – for all the wrong... →
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On three kinds of welcomes
When I flew in the US twelve days ago, I handed the passport agent my American passport and she said ‘welcome home’ to me. Twice, with no irony. I didn’t hug her, but I suspect that it would not have been entirely inappropriate.
When I landed in the UK this morning, I handed the passport agent my British passport and he did not welcome me home at all.
I was amazed to note,...
“…you do have to consider the uncomfortable truth that you have been...”
– Should you wear American Apparel leggings? | Life and style | The Guardian
Hadley Freeman, FTW.
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“Any attempt to gain emotional distance on rape by transferring just a tiny...”
– Cleveland, Texas gang rape: The New York Times skips context in its reporting.
“We like our celebrities - in whatever discipline they come in - dead because...”
– Off On a Tangent
On a place where the sun usually shines
The weather is wonderful. The weather, the weather! I have become a person who really cares about the weather.
The weather here is wonderful but the setting is quite dull. There are things to do, American things, like eating at chain restaurants and watching reality television and driving in a car in order to go for a walk in a park. Everyone has a dog. I love dogs, but here I must break habit: I...