October 2011
“OH WOW. OH WOW. OH WOW.”
—Steve Jobs’s final words. (via newsweek) This is really worth your time. Go read the whole thing.
There are people that set self-timers to take photos of themselves kissing on the beach.
They probably also make love.
“I am troubled by the demonization of immigrants, legal or illegal, in our party. We’ve got a country that was built on immigrants and immigration, and we’ve kind of lost sight of that.”
—REPRESENTATIVE BLAKE FARENTHOLD, Republican of Texas, on shifting attitudes toward immigration.
Brooklyn welcomed me home with the biggest weather fuck up ever.
Seriously. It’s October. Slow your roll, Winter.
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“What’ll we do with ourselves this afternoon?” cried Daisy, “and the day after that, and the next thirty years?”
“Don’t be morbid,” Jordan said. “Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.”
” —The Great Gatsby (via mattie)I learned an important lesson tonight.
I’m willing to be corrupt for the greater good.
“Diners at the latest hot bistro or trattoria snap loving pictures of everything they eat, seeming to forget that it’s dinner, not “America’s Next Top Chicken Breast.” In New York, even the meatballs have paparazzi.”
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Frank Bruni, making me love him even more.
The whole thing is hilarious.
A note to my brain.
It would be greatly appreciated if going forward we spent more time thinking
about what we have, not what we want. Because that list is always
surprisingly awesome, and the other way is just pointless and frustrating.
xo
