December 2011
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“I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making...”
– http://journal.neilgaiman.com/2011/12/my-new-year-wish.html (via neil-gaiman)
Dec 31st
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“She has a good heart. That maybe beats too fast.”
– Wonderfalls (ep. 5)
Dec 31st
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"Burning the Old Year" - Naomi Shihab Nye
Letters swallow themselves in seconds.    Notes friends tied to the doorknob,    transparent scarlet paper, sizzle like moth wings, marry the air. So much of any year is flammable,    lists of vegetables, partial poems.    Orange swirling flame of days,    so little is a stone. Where there was something and suddenly isn’t,    an absence shouts, celebrates, leaves a space.    I begin again with...
Dec 31st
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Dec 29th
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Dec 29th
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I'll tell you why movie revenue is dropping... ::... →
“The myth that small-town moviegoers don’t like “art movies” is undercut by Netflix’s viewing results; the third most popular movie on Dec. 28 on Netflix was “Certified Copy,” by the Iranian directorAbbas Kiarostami. You’ve heard of him? In fourth place—French director Alain Corneau’s “Love Crime.” In fifth, “The Girl...
Dec 29th
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Dec 28th
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Dec 28th
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One Man Show - SNL Speaking as someone who sees roughly 800 one-person autobiographical plays per year, this is pretty spot-on.
Dec 23rd
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Dec 22nd
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Dec 22nd
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Dec 22nd
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Helen Mirren Wants to Play The Doctor of the Day -... →
Helen Mirren Wants to Play The Doctor of the Day: A few months ago, John “Captain Jack Harkness” Barrowman suggested that Doctor Who’s Twelfth Doctor should be female, adding that if nobody else wanted the gig, he’d put on a dress and do it himself. Well, it looks like he won’t have to, because Dame Helen Mirren has volunteered to take the reins of the TARDIS. The award-winning actress told...
Dec 22nd
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Dec 21st
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Dec 20th
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Dec 20th
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“Writing is like driving at night in the fog. You can only see as far as your...”
– E.L. Doctorow
Dec 20th
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Dec 20th
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Portlandia: Battlestar Galactica “You know who would never call? Starbuck.” “No, Starbuck isn’t that dependent on people. Like Starbuck I think, like… wouldn’t even call anyone.” 
Dec 19th
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Dec 18th
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Dec 17th
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US exit from Iraq: 'this is not a withdrawal, this... →
“There was no triumphalism and certainly no shock or awe. The end of the war in Iraq was subdued and simple: a small band playing as the US forces flag was furled with 200 troops watching on quietly. In a makeshift parade ground in a corner of Baghdad airport, time was called on the war just after 1pm on Thursday, eight years, eight months and 26 days after its far more dramatic opening...
Dec 15th
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“The meaning of Christmas is the idea that Christmas has meaning. And it can mean...”
– Community, “Abed’s Uncontrollable Christmas” (I actually kind of feel this way about life in general.)
Dec 15th
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George Whitman, founder of Paris’ Shakespeare and... →
“PARIS — George Whitman’s life was packed with the type of adventures that filled every nook and cranny of his bookshop, Paris’ iconic English-language Shakespeare and Company. A bohemian traveler, Whitman was once nursed to health by Mayans in the Yucatan during a 3,000-mile (5000-kilometer) trek across Latin America and sometimes bragged that he had lived in Greenland with a beautiful...
Dec 15th
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Dec 14th
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Dec 14th
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"The Storm" by Tomas Tranströmer
The storm puts its lips to the house and blows to make a sound. I sleep restlessly, turn over, with closed eyes read the book of the storm. But the child’s eyes grow huge in the dark and the storm whimpers for the child. Both love to see the swinging lamp. Both are halfway toward speech. Storms have childlike hands and wings. The caravan bolts off toward Lapland and the house senses the...
Dec 14th
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Dec 13th
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“It’s an amazing thing to read something that actually strikes you as true. When...”
– from Three Pianos by Rick Burkhardt, Alec Duffy and Dave Malloy (currently onstage at the American Repertory Theater)
Dec 13th
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“It is not enough to simply swallow the highest level of entertainment, to...”
– Jacob Clifton, Smart Pop Books — Signal to Noise
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“Poetry isn’t revolution but a way of knowing why it must come”
– Adrienne Rich, “Dreamwood”
Dec 13th
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