Laurie Spiegel: “I was playing music, I was improvising, I was making stuff up, and at a certain point I wanted to learn to write things down so I wouldn’t forget them. So I started trying to teach myself to write stuff down. One of my roommates in the house that I lived in pointed out to me that they call that composing. You make things up and write them down.”
Month: November 2014
Letting Go Of The Foodie Life
“If shopping and cooking really are the most consequential, most political acts in my life, perhaps what that means is that our sense of the political has shrunk too far—shrunk so much that it fits into our recycled-hemp shopping bags. If these tiny acts of consumer choice are the most meaningful actions in our lives, perhaps we aren’t thinking and acting on a sufficiently big scale.”
Why Do We Fear Sharks And Ebola More Than Cars And The Flu?
“Parks, for example, get more dangerous when people avoid them out of fear, because their emptiness encourages criminals to move in. In the case of Ebola, a travel ban or quarantine law would only hurt volunteer efforts in West Africa.”
Will CBC’s Q Media Panel Address The Ghomeshi Affair?
“‘I think if the media panel is brought back, then it should deal with (the Ghomeshi situation),’ Cruickshank said. ‘At this point, I think the panel would be reflecting on the transparency of CBC corporate, because I don’t think anybody is satisfied that they’ve really put forward the whole story.'”
10 Artists Of Dada You Really Should Know
“The youngest of the Duchamp siblings, Suzanne Duchamp lived in the famed Montparnasse Quarter of Paris so brother Marcel could help her establish her career (they were perhaps the closest of all the siblings).”
Our Thirst For Superhero Movies May Be Slaked (But Maybe Not)
“Character considerations aside, critical voices are starting to confess to a certain superhero fatigue.”
The Rugby Guys Who Do The Best Dancing Before Games
“As in most dance forms, there’s plenty of tradition and obscure lore surrounding the haka, which goes for approximately one minute just before the start of a rugby match.”
That Time A Singer Found A Spider Living In Her Ear (You Might Want To Remove Your Earbuds Now)
“The singer said she had been bothered by a rustling sound in her ear and went to the doctor, who used a micro-vacuum cleaner to remove the creature.”
Writing About A Pretty Good Year (Or Maybe, If You’re Lucky, A Very Good Year)
“The motor that drives the single-year book is, I think, this tingling fascination or sense of intrigue we often experience when examining the past. But for such an examination to really tingle it must be focused and have a clear structure to it.”
Protesters – Or Maybe Government Forces? – Destroy A Museum And Library In Southern Turkey
“Barbarians, now too, as it has been throughout history, attacked libraries, museums and books.”