Tuesday, December 3, 2024
History for us is just like stuff that happened in the past that doesn't matter anymore. But a lot of other people around the world experience history as something that really still matters. Like, really matters to their lives today. They just. They live in history more than we live. A deeper understanding of kind of how they got to where they were and the things that happened to their parents and grandparents and ancestors. And so there's just. It's just, you know, I don't know if it's, you know, better or worse. It's just a different way of experiencing reality.
— Marc Andreessen, "#2234 - Marc Andreessen, The Joe Rogan Experience"
Monday, December 2, 2024
Service temporarily suspended between Philadelphia and New York
— Amtrak App
Sunday, December 1, 2024
To be recognised and accepted by a peregrine you must wear the same clothes, travel by the same way, perform actions in the same order. Like all birds, it fears the unpredictable. Enter and leave the same fields at the same time each day, soothe the hawk from its wildness by a ritual of behaviour as invariable as its own.
— J. A. Baker, The Peregrine
Saturday, November 30, 2024
When the veil of secrecy was finally lifted at the premiere, I muttered something about the mechanical Baby Yoda, and within an hour, there were ten million comments about it on the internet. The downside of one's participation in these things is that it draws attention away from my real work, my own books and films.
— Werner Herzog, Every Man for Himself and God Against All
Friday, November 29, 2024
I must engage in the biomechanical extraction of mammalian lactation fluid to sustain the nutritional requirements of my progeny.
— ChatGPT reply to "whats the most complicated way to say i have to go pump breast milk"
Thursday, November 28, 2024
Does he have any hobbies?
— Henry on Wally
Wednesday, November 27, 2024
Nowhere in that history is Mr. Alam. (Karina Sokolovsky, a spokeswoman for Sotheby’s, confirmed that the banana was purchased from the cart where Mr. Alam works the day of the sale. The vendor himself has no specific recollection of selling an extra-special fruit.)
— Sarah Maslin Nir, "The Sidewalk Fruit Vendor Who Sold a $6.2 Million Banana for 25 Cents," The New York Times
Tuesday, November 26, 2024
I said to myself, "Catering is very ephemeral." You work so hard, you get a beautiful celebration, and then it's gone. But if you write a book that's well-liked, that is forever.
— Martha Stewart, Martha
Monday, November 25, 2024
On walking: again and again (and again), the significance of the world is derived from tiny details never otherwise noted; this is the stuff from which the world may replenish itself. At the end of a day of walking, the wealth of a single day is past counting.
— Werner Herzog, Every Man for Himself and God Against All
Sunday, November 24, 2024
iPhone Tombstone in Ufa, Russia (2018)
— @welcome.jpeg
Saturday, November 23, 2024
The ballots do not carry identifying information, but some voters this year — Mr. Tripple included — doodled or otherwise marked their ballots so they could later find them when published. One person reported writing in the serial number of a $2 bill.
— Mike Baker, "An Idaho County Will Publish Everyone’s Ballots to Combat Mistrust," The New York Times
Friday, November 22, 2024
Back in Munich, my mother was endlessly posting applications to film grant committees and sending out copies of my early films for viewing.
— Werner Herzog, Every Man for Himself and God Against All
Thursday, November 21, 2024
Carbon dating has shown us that a painting begun by one painter was completed more than five thousand years later by another, which is as though a painting begun before the time of the first pharaohs had been recently completed.
— Werner Herzog, Every Man for Himself and God Against All
Wednesday, November 20, 2024
The regular schedule of the fairs is also part of their appeal for publishers. The fairs become self-imposed deadlines for projects, as they're the perfect opportunity (or excuse) to launch new work, plan related events, and generally celebrate a growing catalog of publications.
— Christopher Sleboda and Kathleen Sieboda, "The State of Fairs from Bostor to San Francisco," Idea
Tuesday, November 19, 2024
awful / true
— @kellianderson on John McPhee, "Writing teaches writing." via @parisreview
Monday, November 18, 2024
He kept marking important passages. His father Rudolf, my archeologist grandfather, had done the same thing. Most of the books in Rudolf's library were copiously underlined and annotated, but in the mania of his last years, he started underlining everything in a book from beginning to end. Every line, every word, every letter.
— Werner Herzog, Every Man for Himself and God Against All
Sunday, November 17, 2024
Every element of text in the book-essays, captions, end notes, ISBN, and cover-is set in 11 pt Diatype Semi-Mono. This deliberate typesize choice was made to remove conventional typographic hierarchies.
— @christophersleboda
Saturday, November 16, 2024
Sometimes I show his adorable face, sometimes I hide it. I'm figuring out in real time what feels best. It's for all the reasons you'd imagine it is, but also - there's something so magical about childhood. It just feels like it should be a bubble of peace and privacy and coziness as much as it can be. "Well then why even share the picture if you're going to cover his face?" I guess because l've always thought of this as a digital scrapbook, and it doesn't feel right if he's not in it - a lot! Pictures like this, altered though they are, still make me smile and remind me of this moment in time. A time when he spent almost his whole first year of life in the feedstore as we embarked on this wild adventure. This is just where l've landed for now. A little bit of both, and reserving the right to feel differently at any time.
— @bigskycaroline
Friday, November 15, 2024
Not knowing things that many others do often has serious economic consequences.
— J. D. Vance, Hillbilly Elegy
Thursday, November 14, 2024
When you have completed what you thought you had to do
— The Raconteurs, "Steady, As She Goes"
