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Midweek Staff Meeting – Is The Economist Any Good?


 

 

 

 


Ralph Fiennes reads a poem by Vladimir Nabokov. That’s just awesome.

I’m still not sure if it’s actually worth reading The Economist.

Nantes is the new New York.

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Midweek Staff Meeting – Being Sorrowful


I have many of these.

I am less sanguine about the power of this technology to save.

Can’t buy coolness, my friend.

What would you do?

Fighting back against the hipster onslaught.

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Midweek Staff Meeting – Back Talk


They don’t make ’em like they used to (intellectuals, that is).

Talking back to your voices.

Greatest damn thing about living in DC.

What Dungeons & Dragons character are you?

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Thursday Staff Meeting – Reduced Sentences


Redemption through reading.

You’d have to be crazy to collect modern art.

The meaning of a minotaur.

But doesn’t Henry Rollins have a point?

A philosophical boxing match.

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Weekend Reading – Drink Your Coffee Like A Man


I consider it a point of pride to drink it hot.

Umm… yes, duh.

Not dead yet.

We’re still thinking about Adrienne Rich.

At least they provided caffeine.

“Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.”  – Leonard Cohen

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Thursday Morning Staff Meeting – Not Your Old Fashioned Book Burning


Burn a book to save books.

A fan gets a little tired of Zizek.

Famous subversives: Bakunin, Ginsberg… Louis May Alcott?

How atheists wile away the hours.

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Thursday Morning Staff Meeting – KHOJ ÖZEERI


“A last speaker with no one to talk to exists in unspeakable solitude.”

I only know automats from Edward Hopper paintings.

Something is always in decline (but yeah, book reviewing is in decline these days; the St Pete Times got rid of its old, full spread of Sunday book reviews years ago and the Washington Post has followed suit).

But it might help if so many contemporary novels weren’t such c–p.

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In The Future, All Books Will Look Like This


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