January 2011
26 posts
I Go Back to the House for a Book By Billy Collins
I turn around on the gravel and go back to the house for a book, something to read at the doctor’s office, and while I am inside, running the finger of inquisition along a shelf, another me that did not bother to go back to the house for a book heads out on his own, rolls down the driveway, and swings left toward town, a ghost in his ghost car,...
No culture in history has been more distracted. If you are wondering why there...
– Donald Miller
December 2010
18 posts
At home, to begin with, I mainly used to read. I wished to stifle with external...
– Fyodor Dostoevsky in Notes from Underground (1864)
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How an Octopus Eats, Smithsonian Video
While camouflaged on the ocean floor off the coast of Israel in the Red Sea, octopods use their arms to grab unsuspecting prey.
( Produced by: Brendan McCabe ) ( Video footage by: Ziggy Livnat )
“Really an alien-intelligence”-Love it!
A normal person, functioning well on the upper levels of a prosperous,...
– Kurt Vonnegut (via azspot)
Staff parties suck.
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