In using the term “art” as a conceptual category, it seems to me, in many cases we run the risk of displacing local criteria for categorizing and evaluating cultural artifacts.
— Peter Mark, “Is There Such a Thing as African Art?”
Hell sounds like fun.
— Mario Gandelsonas
What all of these shows grasp at, in one way or another, is that nobody knows how to be a grown-up anymore. Adulthood as we have known it has become conceptually untenable. It isn’t only that patriarchy in the strict, old-school Don Draper sense has fallen apart. It’s that it may never really have existed in the first place, at least in the way its avatars imagined.
— A. O. Scott, “The Death of Adulthood in American Culture,” The New York Times
I get excited about 90% of my waking hours each day.
— Michael Gordin
It is our ability to judge our own work (with as close to an unbiased eye as possible) which determines the quality of what we make.
— Peter Mendelsund, Cover
Parley.
Pirates of the Caribbean
Bim Bap.
Un-bunked.
Life is too short but too long to be enjoyed.
— Felix
Eric looks like what i have always wanted my pumpkin to look like.
— A
I just realized I really like the word ‘mesh.’
— D
I can’t look happy because I’m always happy.
— Felix
Code yellow.
Code yellow.
Fight, and you may die.
— William Wallace
Sumo wakes up in the morning.
Bears.
Flea Fly.
— Joe Bolling
I had qualified for the recitation period with “The Highwayman.”
— Sidney Offit, Memoir of a Bookie’s Son
Cocoa Puffs.