From Cindy Chang’s story in today’s Times-Pic: Bob Dabney, a spokesman for [Stewart] Juneau, said: “I can confirm that LTPG and the city are in ongoing negotiations over the proposal submitted in response to the RFP. We’re not ready to concede that there are material…
Grati Baroni being interviewed by Andre Gervais (translated by Sarah Skinner Gilborne): And I remember that [Marcel Duchamp] told me that one day when he was forty or forty-one, when he was in New York and very much in love, he was in front of…
I guess Vancouver Canuck Mikael Samuelsson badly wanted to be on the Swedish Olympic hockey team. When he found out he didn’t make the team, he said: Probably going to get in trouble for this, but they can go (expletive deleted) themselves.
There are few writers Martin Amis admires as much as Vladimir Nabokov, which makes this all the more insightful (from guardian.co.uk): The word we want is not the legalistic “paedophilia”, which in any case deceitfully translates as “fondness for children”. The word we want is…
Vitty Cent cut in line at a D.C. coffeeshop and a witness said, I was like, ‘What?’ But you couldn’t say anything. I mean, he’s a Senator. Yes you can.
The novelist Ru Freeman’s mother recently passed away and Ru has written a moving remembrance. This paragraph really hit me: In more ways than one, I was trying to define for my mother a life that I wanted her to live. I wanted her to…
One thing I’ve always liked about hockey players is they’re great at the “aw, shucks” routine. They talk some trash during games, they’re excitable after scores, pretty much like all athletes, check, but when they’re off the ice, they talk shyly about how they don’t…
Imagination stuck? Imagine you’re in California. (If you’re in California, imagine you’re in New Orleans). From Scientific American: For the insight problems, participants were told that the questions were developed either by a research institute located in California, “around 2,000 miles away” (distant condition), or…
I was talking to one of our trainers, just chatting. It hit me like a baseball bat. It hurt quite a bit and then I was kind of dazed for a while. That’s Ottawa Senator goalie Pascal Leclaire describing what it feels like to get…
David Shields has a new book coming out called Reality Hunger: A Manifesto. I saw Shields read from his manifesto a couple years ago and he sure had the fiction writers in the room riled up. I found myself both nodding along with Shields and…
Kurt Vonnegut’s letter home May 1945 to let family know he was still alive (h/t 3quarksdaily): Under the Geneva Convention, Officers and Non-commissioned Officers are not obliged to work when taken prisoner. I am, as you know, a Private. One-hundred-and-fifty such minor beings were shipped…
A couple years ago when the Saints played the Bears in the NFC championship game there was a lot of shock locally at how abusive the Bears fans were of Saints fans. I certainly wasn’t surprised. The Bears bring the worst out of the Chicago…