July 2009
June 2009
“Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If...”
– P. J. O’Rourke (via poortaste, dailycow)
“He was your Elvis, and when your Elvis dies, so does the private lie that...”
– Cornelius Bear
Band of Horses — “The Funeral”
The Invention of Pornography →
Pornography tends to be defined by what it is not: it is not art, it is not legitimate, it is not safe for popular consumption.…Explicit imagery is as old as art itself, but pornography, as a thought structure, can be traced back to the eighteenth century with the discovery of Pompeii and the impetus to develop a new taxonomy of art.
There were scenes of couples having sex in twos and threes,...
“Imagine that you went back in time to the late 1960s and found Terry Gilliam,...”
– Charlie Jane Anders, on Transformers: ROTF
“I see now that designers are people who can make information emotional and...”
– Becky Bermont
Dntel — “To A Fault” (Feat. Grizzly...
