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It's been yonks since I've done one of these, but every yonk must be a finite amount of time. (If you like to wait less than one or more standard yonks, 
magpieandwhale and
magpiewhale are good places for my link-mongering parties. Also, I like talking with people! So, those are there.) But, yes! For your delectation, which is so nice to say that I say it twice:
Some recipes that I want to try:
Kale + orzo lemon-y salad
Parmesan-encrusted (oo!) tilapia -- actually, I did have this one, and it was pretty fool-proof, even for me.
Tilapia + pesto, and let me tell you, I am the biggest sucker for pesto, so this is definitely going on my to-make list.
Commencement season is mostly over, but I keep meaning to go back and listen to/read these: GNeil; Top 5 or something.
What neuroscience tells us about the art of fiction: Interesting. "The brain, it seems, doesn’t make much of a distinction between reading and actual doing."
The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows gives us a number of fantastic and possible made-up words, like Zielschmerz, which you're just going to have to click and find out about.
Tree music; or, what happens when you play a cross-section of a tree trunk on a record player
People who know Great Lake Swimmers, is there a particular album that's good to try first?
Tom Hiddleston reading poetry, available for your delectation by download
A Mind of Their Own and Could Conjoined Twins Share a Mind? is, to be kind of trite, absolutely mind-blowing.
Wealth by Tim Nolan and Majority by Dana Gioia are two great poems I recently heard through the Writers Almanac, Garrison Keillor's daily podcast on NPR. Be warned: "Majority" will stun you and make you cry.
The North West London Blues by Zadie Smith is a wonderful piece on neighborhoods and the state and libraries and why they defy capitalism and why we need that. Lots of good quotes I keep meaning to save ("A library is a different kind of social reality (of the three dimensional kind), which by its very existence teaches a system of values beyond the fiscal.").
The Global Village Construction Set is something I found out about from the TEDTalks NPR podcast: a wiki about how to construct the tools of civilization, basically.
ORBIS is a MapQuest for the Roman Empire. No, really. Play around with it. It's fascinating.
This Radiolab bit about colors and Homeric texts and why there's no blue in the Iliad and the Odyssey has not stopped rattling around my brain since I first heard it. Incredible.
How did you get that awesome job? interviews some journalists from UofC, which is kind of keeping me going as I stare down a pretty scary deadline with not as much as I'd like to show for it.
Related: How to make the most of your productive times
Upside-down planters: one | two
Folks who love Tom Robbins and Still Life with Woodpecker, I'm pretty in love with this tattoo.
I'm really, really in love with this Laura Marling concert poster. Do you like minotaurs or mid-century modern illustration? Click that link.
Tom Hiddleston and his face and myths and Shakespeare and ugh, perfection, to end this on something, you know. Important. (No really. I need the full version of that picture, from the War Horse Vanity Fair shoot that also has Cumberbatch and the other guys in it. That's just. An excellent shot.)
(Okay, I lied: Le Petit Prince, LOOK AT HIS LITTLE HORRRRNS.)
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magpieandwhale and
magpiewhale are good places for my link-mongering parties. Also, I like talking with people! So, those are there.) But, yes! For your delectation, which is so nice to say that I say it twice:
Some recipes that I want to try:
Commencement season is mostly over, but I keep meaning to go back and listen to/read these: GNeil; Top 5 or something.
What neuroscience tells us about the art of fiction: Interesting. "The brain, it seems, doesn’t make much of a distinction between reading and actual doing."
The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows gives us a number of fantastic and possible made-up words, like Zielschmerz, which you're just going to have to click and find out about.
Tree music; or, what happens when you play a cross-section of a tree trunk on a record player
People who know Great Lake Swimmers, is there a particular album that's good to try first?
Tom Hiddleston reading poetry, available for your delectation by download
A Mind of Their Own and Could Conjoined Twins Share a Mind? is, to be kind of trite, absolutely mind-blowing.
Wealth by Tim Nolan and Majority by Dana Gioia are two great poems I recently heard through the Writers Almanac, Garrison Keillor's daily podcast on NPR. Be warned: "Majority" will stun you and make you cry.
The North West London Blues by Zadie Smith is a wonderful piece on neighborhoods and the state and libraries and why they defy capitalism and why we need that. Lots of good quotes I keep meaning to save ("A library is a different kind of social reality (of the three dimensional kind), which by its very existence teaches a system of values beyond the fiscal.").
The Global Village Construction Set is something I found out about from the TEDTalks NPR podcast: a wiki about how to construct the tools of civilization, basically.
ORBIS is a MapQuest for the Roman Empire. No, really. Play around with it. It's fascinating.
This Radiolab bit about colors and Homeric texts and why there's no blue in the Iliad and the Odyssey has not stopped rattling around my brain since I first heard it. Incredible.
How did you get that awesome job? interviews some journalists from UofC, which is kind of keeping me going as I stare down a pretty scary deadline with not as much as I'd like to show for it.
Related: How to make the most of your productive times
Upside-down planters: one | two
Folks who love Tom Robbins and Still Life with Woodpecker, I'm pretty in love with this tattoo.
I'm really, really in love with this Laura Marling concert poster. Do you like minotaurs or mid-century modern illustration? Click that link.
Tom Hiddleston and his face and myths and Shakespeare and ugh, perfection, to end this on something, you know. Important. (No really. I need the full version of that picture, from the War Horse Vanity Fair shoot that also has Cumberbatch and the other guys in it. That's just. An excellent shot.)
(Okay, I lied: Le Petit Prince, LOOK AT HIS LITTLE HORRRRNS.)
This was originally posted on Dreamwidth, where it has
comments. I would love to hear from you at DW! If you can see this post, you can comment here using OpenID. Thanks!