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Your Satudray Afternoon Cartoons or Pre-Sunday Funnies

oneswellfoop — Sat, 21 Jul 2012 12:21:11 -0800

Cartoonists on the world we live in from the ~~Grauniad~~Guardian, including such obvious suspects as Nicholas "PBF" Gurewitch and Kate "Hark!" Beaton, as well as others you've probably seen before but don't recognize but should.

La Dolce Far Niente

goodnewsfortheinsane — Sun, 01 Jul 2012 18:25:29 -0800

I am not busy. I am the laziest ambitious person I know. Like most writers, I feel like a reprobate who does not deserve to live on any day that I do not write, but I also feel that four or five hours is enough to earn my stay on the planet for one more day. On the best ordinary days of my life, I write in the morning, go for a long bike ride and run errands in the afternoon, and in the evening I see friends, read or watch a movie. This, it seems to me, is a sane and pleasant pace for a day.

Tim Kreider: The ‘Busy’ Trap.

This Modern Life

bayani — Thu, 16 Sep 2010 12:35:34 -0800

A Dictionary of the Near Future: "The thing about the future is that it never feels the way we thought it would. New sensations require new terms; [here] are a few such terms to encapsulate our present moment." Here's mine: genre singularity - the event occurring when the total number of musical genres is greater than the total number of actual songs Be gentle; it's my first post :)