February 2008
“The university hurt the farmers’ feelings, OK? That’s probably the...”
– soybean advocate Jim Palmer on the U of M’s recent study suggesting that biofuels could worsen global warming. The two groups Palmer represents have suspended $1.5 million in grants to the University of Minnesota.
“Music is very important to white people. It truly is the soundtrack to their...”
– Standing Still at Concerts
“A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with...”
– W.H. Auden
“One newly discovered creature, called the fangtooth, has teeth longer than its...”
– New deep-sea species discovered northwest of New Zealand
Charles Mingus's The Black Saint and the Sinner... →
A fantastic jazz album, a free sound but a very coherent structure and orchestration. Nice and bassy too, with some great flamenco-ish guitar parts. I’ve been listening to it all day.
“Once Nature became Environment she became semantically much diminished, as...”
– ‘Literature Unnatured’ by Joy Williams. Published in The Best American Non Required Reading 2007
“I was well into elementary school before I knew that it was unusual to have...”
– Sgt. Tim Davidson, Minneapolis Circus Cop
“The silence of snow, thought the man sitting just behind the bus driver. If this...”
– Opening lines of Orhan Pamuk’s Snow
