February 5 2009
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"You cannot create experience. You must undergo it." — Albert Camus, French author, philosopher and Nobel prize-winning journalist
February 1 2009
Text — City Bakery’s Hot Chocolate Festival!
Today marks the start of City Bakery’s 17th Annual Hot Chocolate Festival, which runs throughout the month. Fearing that I would miss my favorites again this year (cinnamon, bourbon, and lemon), I created an iCal filled with the days’ flavors. They’re kicking off the month, and SuperBowl Sunday, with beer hot chocolate! Take a peek or subscribe!
January 7 2009
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On the heels of the news that the city overwhelms us, but photographs of nature can help restore our mental well-being, João Paulo Carvalho’s work is sure to inspire, with its ever-so-subtle hints of human existence, in an otherwise natural environment. Refreshing.
January 6 2009
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"I love the way we all suddenly stop traducing our enemy when we hear they have a cancer or have suffered a stroke. If only we could always keep in front of our minds that we are all dying." — Don Paterson, from his most recently published book of aphorisms, “Best Thought, Worst Thought.”
January 1 2009
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My Father, writing at his desk, the day before Christmas, and just a few days before his new daughter, and my new sister, Brooke Elizabeth, was born.
November 23 2008
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"No dogma taught by the present civilization seems to form so insuperable an obstacle in a way of a right understanding of the relations which culture sustains as to wilderness, as that which declares that the world was made especially for the uses of men. Every animal, plant, and crystal controverts it in the plainest terms. Yet it is taught from century to century as something ever new and precious, and in the resulting darkness the enormous conceit is allowed to go unchallenged." —John Muir, American naturalist.
Muir didn’t publish his first book until he was 55, but it was his writing that affected a generation of Americans to develop their relationship with Nature.
November 6 2008
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What Happens to the Posters After Election Day?
“If Obama is elected president, however, the man in the pictures is no longer a symbol of identity and aspiration. He’s the boss, “Leader of the Free World.” He has power. Ubiquitous images of his face take on a creepy Dear Leader quality, implicitly commanding obedience.”
Regardless, Shepard Fairey continues his excellent run of Obama posters. I hope to see these around the city soon.
November 2 2008
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Ended CMJ this year with a performance by Emmy the Great at Piano’s. Fantastic!
(photo via F Yang)
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