December 2008
23 posts
“If you do [go see Sex and City: The Movie], you are helping Western Civilization to collapse.”
Everywhere I go, I’m asked if I think the universities stifle writers. My...
– Flannery O’Connor
Over the past several weeks I’ve had the opportunity to see nearly all of...
– Filmbrain’s Top 10 of 2008
Because diamonds are forever. Just like roaches.
Fuck You, Penguin →
I am a completely horizontal author. I can’t think unless I’m lying down, either...
– Truman Capote
Everyone agrees that members of the other group are total jackasses who don’t...
– Margaret Mason’s Twitter etiquette guide
Pantone's Color of 2009: Mimosa →
So apparently Roman Polanski has decided to continue his ongoing quest to make it damn near impossible for cineastes to discuss him on the basis of his directorial work alone by asking a California court to forget about that whole “statutory rape” thing a while back. Not because he didn’t drug and rape a 13-year-old girl, mind you (he admitted it before, and isn’t denying...
The Grid System →
Freedom to write, freedom to read, freedom to own material that you believe is...
– Neil Gaiman, Why defend freedom of icky speech?