May 2012
3 posts
“How can it be that I have finished two years of medical school and I still...”
– n
“You can’t second-guess your decisions. You gather information, you think hard,...”
– Robert Cezar Matei, who declined an offer to work at Instagram (via couch)
“Dear Mr. Sendak, How much does it cost to get to where the wild things are? If...”
– Letter from an 8-year-old boy to Maurice Sendak, Children’s Author Who Upended Tradition
April 2012
3 posts
“That is why I want to speak to you now.
To say: no person, trying to take...”
– Adrienne Rich, via Phoebe Sexton
March 2012
1 post
“Grandmothers are jewels.”
– Helpful Delta representative who waived my change fee.
February 2012
6 posts
“Do you want crème brûlée?… Or do you want to sulk?”
– my dad
“Go get lunch or something. Just sitting around and waiting at the hospital is...”
– My grandma Ellie, who really hates all the attention she’s been getting lately.
“What a surprise, your world-view is food-based.”
– Jack Donaghy (via lizlemon)
“Did you know there’s a version of the Puppy Bowl but with humans?!”
– Stephen Colbert
Josh: I finished watching 30 Rock on Netflix.
Shaun: Welcome to our friendship.
January 2012
1 post
“We have to make room for other people. It’s a wheel- you get on, you go to...”
– Vivian Maier
December 2011
5 posts
“She thinks the more people know about others in the world and are more educated,...”
– Andrea Bruce [Everyday Portraits]
“This type of violence doesn’t just shoot the victim. It shoots the entire...”
– Barbara Davidson, speaking of her LA Times project on victims gang violence. #atlantaseminar
“About astrology and palmistry: they are good because they make people vivid and...”
– Kurt Vonnegut
November 2011
5 posts
The only good thing that has ever come out of this... →
“Figure out the thing you care most about and mix it with the thing you love to...”
– Kathleen Hanna
“Change, revolutions don’t come because there’s injustice. They begin...”
– David Paterson
October 2011
4 posts
“Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful...”
– Vaclav Havel
“I’m not an artist; I’m a messenger.”
– Mel Rosenthal [A Mentor’s Passion for Pictures and Social Justice]
3 tags
September 2011
2 posts
“To accumulate information per se is not a contribution. But to accumulate...”
– Myles Horton (speech to the Consultation on Appalachia-Rural Poverty in North America, 1968)
“If all you want is a hug from a black person, maybe you should just host The...”
– Tracy Jordan
August 2011
2 posts
4 tags
To my friends and colleagues in Boston who are... →
[Follow the link to a photo essay chronicling Moving Day in Allston last year]
1 tag
Jonathan: You think we learned anything tonight?
George: No, but that's okay. It's good to stay in the dark about things. It keeps life interesting.
July 2011
5 posts
“…life is fleetingly short and incredibly hard if you don’t laugh.”
– Laura Hartmann, as part of a Washington Post “time capsule” edited by Gene Hartmann in 2000. [Go here, keep adding 1 to the last number in the URL, and say goodbye to your day. It’s Six Word Memoirs meets This American Life meets McSweeneys meets One in 8 Million. Maybe better.]
3 tags
“If I had a dollar for every time someone said ‘I really want to come out...”
– MaliVai Washington encouraging us to take action.
“I think the rule is that as long as you add one other ingredient to Jello, you...”
– I don’t know why it took me this long to discover Stuff Southern People Like, but I’m so glad I did.
June 2011
2 posts
“don’t dig something up, find something new.”
– Aaron, on cute animal pictures, and also everything.
“The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making...”
– Kurt Vonnegut (via fotofobe)
May 2011
4 posts
“We have to be cool to everybody because the future is like a Japanese game show....”
– Tracy Morgan
“Thirty-five turned into forty faster than McDonald’s food turns into cold...”
– (happy birthday) Tina Fey
April 2011
12 posts
“The Internet is the repository of all human garbage. It’s the worst place...”
– Tina Fey, interviewed on Fresh Air
“So my unsolicited advice to women in the workplace is this. When faced with...”
– Tina Fey, Bossypants
“I feel about Photoshop the way some people feel about abortion. It is appalling...”
– Tina Fey, Bossypants
“I say in speeches that a plausible mission of artists is to make people...”
– Kurt Vonnegut