The simple thing I’ve learned over the years is just to have a starting point and once you have a starting point the work seems to make itself.

austinkleon:

What does David Shrigley do all day?

We are Vietnamese Americans, after all. Pork is as necessary to us as water.

—Monique Truong in NYT

“Nope,” she rasped. “I’ve had enough. I just want to die in my Pratesi sheets.”

(Sue Mengers. NYT Magazine)

… try to portray with real, difficult feeling while also making it as cozy and finally unthreatening as possible.

(Source: The New York Times)

One of the Greatest _______ of Our Time

Schooled in the art of the quiet boo

— and a strange confederate in Mr. Daily’s dotty wife (Janet McTeer, enjoying herself).

(Source: The New York Times)

synthetic and calculating persona

phrase of the day

It’s a reaction to what they perceive as _____’s synthetic and calculating persona, …

I searched her face for levity or compassion, but found neither.

— Matt Bai

(Source: The New York Times)

I do not entertain hypotheticals, the world as it is is vexing enough.

— True Grit