February 2011
8 posts
@StoweBoyd: Another Lesson About Cognition And The... →
@stoweboyd:
I am all for teachable moments, but Maureen Dowd and the tut-tut, tsk-tsk bloviators are connecting the wrong dots following Lara Logan’s sexual assault in Egypt and the fooforah that followed. Dowd starts by taking aim at Nir Rosen, whose unfeeling and reptilian comments led to him losing a…
“Creativity is a transcendental yet amorphous state - a natural high - the drug...”
– from Phasing Grace | Social Architectures and Virtual Worlds (via gracemcdunnough)
Reading: Joe Jones by Anne Lamott
One of my favorite authors, Lamott originally wrote this book in 1985. It went out of print and was recently published again after a rewrite. It’s the story of a group of people whose lives center around a rundown cafe on the waterfront in Marin (Sausalito? Tiberon?). The central character, Louise, holds the group together and in doing so finally resolves her break-up with Joe Jones....
