May 2010
28 posts
April 2010
28 posts
“‘It’s hard to use a word like preserve with a language,’ said Robert Holman, who teaches at Columbia and New York Universities and is working with Professor Kaufman on the alliance. ‘It’s not like putting jelly in a jar. A language is used. Language is consciousness. Everybody wants to speak English, but those lullabies that allow you to go to sleep at night and dream — that’s what we’re talking about.’”
—Listening to (and Saving) the World’s Languages - New York Times
Needham petco - m4w (Crickits large and small)
I was getting bugs and so were you. Are you married?
Jon
(via craigslist)
“and all the days that i’m alive
i strive to understand, not to be understood” —mike doughty - i wrote a song about your car
i strive to understand, not to be understood” —mike doughty - i wrote a song about your car
“I’ve long been a Hello Kitty fan,” Mike says. “I have a huge Hello Kitty mural in my apartment. To me, she’s a symbol of freedom.”
—Mike Doughty has become the first artist to officially endorse Fender’s Hello Kitty line of guitars…
i held the door for you last night - m4w (waltham)
you were in a robe taking your trash out let me know if your married i like your butt
(via craigslist)
-yes, said s., that’s you. do you know how deja vu occurs?
-no, said the guess artist.
-well, said s., when you are a child, somewhere between two and four years of age, a night comes that you have a dream. in that dream you dream your entire life, from start to finish, with all its happinesses, its disappointments, its loves, its hates, its pains, its joys. your entire life. the dream should have to last an equivalent amount of time, but somehow it happens it just one night.
(from “the way through doors”, by jesse ball)
“I think there will be many people who will develop the taste and love for going to such an event. It is exciting in a way you probably don’t expect when you just hear the word ‘Book Fair.’ Well, to me it is just as exciting as sitting in the dark of the theatre and watch[ing] a horror film! This experience is not horror. But it’s just as exciting!”
—yoko ono, on her love for book fairs and rare book collecting. (interview at book patrol)
“she once won a free trip around the world by answering the question ‘why do you want to go around the world?’ (‘because you can’t go through it.’)”
—from kelly link’s short bio on the back flap of her book of stunning short stories, “magic for beginners”.
“The problem is that once you put these images on the internet, the images belong TO THE INTERNET… Congress can pass whatever law they want. They are completely IRRELEVANT. Once those images have been downloaded off of your server, they are HISTORY… I could take any image off the internet now and print perfect copies. As many copies as I want. Copyrights are history. What do you think all that blank videotape and audiotape they sell in the stores are for? STEALING copyrighted work.”
—from a user comment in a 1999 newsgroup discussion on internet copyright for photographers, as quoted in william j. maher’s article, “between authors and users: archivists in the copyright vise”.
