I returned from Phoenix with the travel sniffles, which freaked me out for a day as a close colleague of mine had just been diagnosed with H1N1. Thankfully I'm in the clear, though running around in my Halloween costume this week may change that.


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FlavorPill: What do you think the role of the intellectual is in society? Or what do you think it should be?

Benjamin Kunkel: On this, I kind of have a Maoist view. The intellectuals should become the masses and the masses should become intellectual. It would be great to live in a world where the distinction between intellectuals and other people ( Read more... )

and so the canadians came and went, relocating the Bibles in the local Barnes & Noble, and making me question other fictions in my daily life.

vacation was important. in some moments it was calming (i'm a really nice person without work-related mania), in others i started to wonder what i'd be doing if i didn't have the maple triumvirate to keep me ( Read more... )

 What movies do you like? What's your favorite band?

If you're about to say "I don't know, I like so many," or worse yet, "I like everything," let me stop you right there.

When did our generation become so afraid of tethering something we like, anything at all really, to our own personalities? When did we begin to subscribe to the idea that the more ( Read more... )

read this on Sara Bareilles' blog this morning, and it felt right given the past week or so, so here it is...

"I wrote this song as a reminder to myself to keep going in search of love and truth and light and it remains to be an ideal I love to stay connected to.

I suck at it a lot of the time actually, to be honest. I get bitchy, and bored, and ( Read more... )

i beg you... to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language. don't search for the answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live them ( Read more... )

A man should have a garment with two pockets. In the first pocket should be a piece of paper on which is written "I am but dust and ashes" ... and in the second pocket should be a piece of paper on which is written "For me the world was created."

"Imagine life is a game in which you are juggling five balls. The balls are called work, family, health, friends and integrity. And you're keeping all of them in the air. But one day you finally come to understand that work is a rubber ball. If you drop it, it will bounce back. The other four balls - family, health, friends, integrity - are made of ( Read more... )