Saturday, October 29, 2022
And of course we'd talked about the famous story of the Dutch painter Frans Hals, who, after having a meal at an inn, shouted " I've left the money on the table" as he was leaving. And the innkeeper thanked him, since he saw on the table the gold Louis that Frans Hals had painted.
— Charles Alexandre via Alex Danchev, Magritte
Friday, October 28, 2022
Jersey Devil
— Two ordered by MD from Small World Coffee (fried free-range egg, pork roll, cabot cheddar, chipotle, and pickled jalapeno on a toasted english muffin with garlic butter)*
Thursday, October 27, 2022
Everything we see hides another thing.
— Magritte via Alex Danchev, Magritte
Wednesday, October 26, 2022
I always concentrated on the individual photographs & each image's specific aesthetic properties. ROOKIE MISTAKE
— @emily_elsie (part of larger Instagram story series on Berenice Abbott)
Tuesday, October 25, 2022
I told him I was the Shell Vice President and that the cameras were documenting us because, if he got the job, he would be Shell's one milionth employee.
— Nathan Fielder, S4 E6: "Shipping Logistics Company," Nathan For You
Monday, October 24, 2022
Then too, Gorey's slighter drawings... don't pretend to be anything but frivolous. Their breif length and drawing room scale are proportionate to their pleasures. They're the literary equivilent of a bite of truffle. The very act of putting them on the stage makes them feel overdone rather than understated, an understatement is the essence of Gorey's droll wit.
— Mark Dery, Born to Be Posthumous: The Eccentric Life and Mysterious Genius of Edward Gorey
Sunday, October 23, 2022
I love how he gets patted on his belly but it's probably in his contract.
— Lily on TSA dog
Saturday, October 22, 2022
Nothing escapes us.
— David on us both seeing the hand symbol the guys did before slipping out of the ceremony
Friday, October 21, 2022
Mango Lassi
— Sign by the mango lassi
Thursday, October 20, 2022
“Enumeration or lists of things form an essential part of Nonsense,” Elizabeth Sewell notes in her landmark study The Field of Nonsense.
— Mark Dery, Born to Be Posthumous: The Eccentric Life and Mysterious Genius of Edward Gorey
Wednesday, October 19, 2022
COURTESY WARNING: we are ~8 weeks away from Spotify Wrapped so this is your last chance to binge listen to trendy things that won’t embarrass you
— @HeavenlyGrandpa via @bustle
Tuesday, October 18, 2022
Balanchine spoke to Gorey on many levels. When the ballet master said that ballet, “like the music of great musicians... can be enjoyed and understood without any verbal introduction or explanation,” he was singing Gorey's song... As did Balanchine's impatience with what he saw as the reductionism inherent in critical attempts to articulate the “meaning” of his ballets. Gorey's sense of what's lost when we try to use words to nail down meaning was honed by his need, as an illustrator, to complement a text by saying something in images that couldn't be said in words.
— Mark Dery, Born to Be Posthumous: The Eccentric Life and Mysterious Genius of Edward Gorey
Monday, October 17, 2022
If you know somebody really well, you can never really believe how talented they are. I know how he wrote some of those poems, so I can't take them all that seriously.
— Edward Gorey on Frank O’Hara via Mark Dery, Born to Be Posthumous: The Eccentric Life and Mysterious Genius of Edward Gorey
Sunday, October 16, 2022
In typically impish fashion, Mr. Wieden later admitted that the phrase was inspired in part by the Utah spree killer Gary Gilmore, whose last words before he was killed by a firing squad in 1977 were “Let’s do it.”
— Alex Williams, "Dan Wieden, Adman of Nike ‘Just Do It’ Fame, Is Dead at 77," The New York Times
Saturday, October 15, 2022
It may have confirmed Gorey in his belief that “the perfect works of art of this world...are almost invariably on a small scale."
— Mark Dery, Born to Be Posthumous: The Eccentric Life and Mysterious Genius of Edward Gorey
Friday, October 14, 2022
Ben, how much are you going to sell your dead body for? [in voice] “How old am I? 87? 87 dollars and 87 cents… oh wait how many days? 87 dollars and 23 cents”… Oh my… I’m going to be a pauper.
— Lily joking around
Thursday, October 13, 2022
I deserve to be able to see and treat everyone with empathy.
— Shane Rocheleau
Wednesday, October 12, 2022
There would be something missing if, after stacking the naked men, you coudn't take a picture of them.
— Susan Sontag, "Regarding the Torture of Others"
Tuesday, October 11, 2022
In May, Mr. Xi told the Politburo, the party’s top 25 officials, that Westerners often wrongly viewed China as just a modern nation-state. “They don’t view China from the vantage point of over 5,000 years of civilization,” he said, using an often-used but disputed dating of its origins, “so it’s hard for them to truly understand China’s past, present and future.”
— Chris Buckley, Vivian Wang and Joy Dong, "One Nation Under Xi: How China’s Leader Is Remaking Its Identity," The New York Times
Monday, October 10, 2022
Do you need any help?
— Person driving by as my mom, my dad, Lily, and I were looking at a praying mantis on the road at the end of a walk around the neighborhood
