October 2011
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Talker's block
No one ever gets talker’s block. No one wakes up in the morning, discovers he has nothing to say and sits quietly, for days or weeks, until the muse hits, until the moment is right, until all the craziness in his life has died down.
Why then, is writer’s block endemic?
The reason we don’t get talker’s block is that we’re in the habit of talking without a lot of...
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Capital punishment is the most premeditated of murders, to which no criminal’s...
– Albert Camus, “Reflections on the Guillotine”
Troy Davis Execution Stay Denied—ABC NEWS
(via ataxiwardance)
This is quite relevant.
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COLBERT TO CHRISTIANS
arewepayingattention:
The funny thing is: it’s a comedian saying this profoundly biblical truth and not America’s “Christian” preachers and politicians.
Actually, it’s not funny. It’s shameful.
Stephen Colbert is the man.
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How media clearly reflects the sexism and the... →
I wanted my first-year film students to understand what happens to a story when actual human beings inhabit your characters, and the way they can inspire storytelling. And I wanted to teach them how to look at headshots and what you might be able to tell from a headshot. So for the past few years I’ve done a small experiment with them.
Some troubling shit always occurs.
It works like this: I...
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