Full respect to the girl who barely made it out of the room after a brutal three-hour exam before hitting her vape in the hallway. I don’t smoke but I wish I did rn. I could use my mind altered, one way or the other.
I’ve had the same editor since 1967. Many times he has said to me over the years or asked me, Why would you use a semicolon instead of a colon? And many times over the years I have said to him things like: I will never speak to you again. Forever. Goodbye. That is it. Thank you very much. And I leave. Then I read the piece and I think of his suggestions. I send him a telegram that says, OK, so you’re right. So what? Don’t ever mention this to me again. If you do, I will never speak to you again
Maya Angelou on the joys of being edited
To the girl who got on the Go at Union, sat in an outside seat while taking the inside for an oversized Dior tote, and proceeded to make reservations at multiple restaurants for the same time then explained loudly on another call that she’d ensured options:
Your stop absolutely would be Oakville.
“Live up to the light thou hast and more will be granted.” — Caroline Fox
Well, I’m doing my fucking best but there’s that going off the rails already.
meme. photo of sabrina carpenter looking kinda distressed/weirded out. copy overlay reads "the look she gives me when i'm trying to explain that i developed a taste for fernet instead of a personality"
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Yeah, that's bad. Dumb populism.
Think about it this way: If you had a pot of cash to hand out, who would you send it to? I'm guessing you wouldn't say: “Folks who drive a lot are obviously the neediest; that's who deserves my cash.. Also, I would love to subsidize reliance on foreign oil.”
I just cited you in a paper!
Guy sitting next to me on the train, to me, over my laptop: "Whenever I see someone working on the train, I think are you *really* that busy?"
Yes but no? No but yes? (It's a grand excuse not to talk to people.)
This post is a slightly expanded version of the article that recently appeared in Wine Searcher. Properly footnoted, comme il faut.
Intellectual property theft, in a modest Canadian fashion?
I'm writing a paper this weekend on Weber and consumer capitalism and another on Prohibition. The Puritans are not looking so great rn.
“We can deploy language (as awkward as it might be) to try to capture the kaleidoscopic nature of the phenomenon – one that is constantly on the move, always just slightly out of one's grasp.”
A-fucking-men.
The genius that is RG
@ItsBCJim The bad part of getting older is that you become an NPC, the good part is that being an NPC rocks. Nothing like walking down the street with a thought bubble that's just a sandwich you're looking forward to. Protagonism is best left to teens and the insane
My mum’s follow up notes on our conversation:
“A franken academia thing.”
Accurate reporting of my brain.
It is some kind of mindfuck to spend a day working in marketing then start working on a paper titled: "Weber’s disenchantment of the world: Premonitions of the illusory promises of consumer capitalism."
Just absolutely a sooky baby about weather. Too cold, too hot, whatever ... I don't wike it.
You are correct but — and this is key — I am a suck.
My view on the way into work.
Mean.
TRY BOOKS!
I had a long, busy day. Just saw what’s trending and maybe marketing, vibes or otherwise, is not at the top of anyone’s agenda.
Yeah so he is just going to keep doing the thing where we are in a constant state of uncertainty, confusion, stress, and tension because that is what abusive people do and the people who are in a position to address this are asleep at the switch.
Vibe marketing is, like, not a thing or it’s just marketing.
(Being uninformed about specifics of execution is irresponsible but all marketing is, fundamentally, vibes.)
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Pretty much.
Very much worth reading. “We don’t know what they want. All we do know is that they don’t want what we’re giving them.”
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I know the world is going to hell in a handbasket but I think the thing that is going to finally break me is snow in April.
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