Media Dragon: Awkward Space and Glances: Moores of Sheils

I feel it’s a kind of responsibility to critique things that you think are bad – but I also feel an almost moral obligation to propagate hope
~Bathroom Quote

“…when you really want something and almost get it but then don’t—like when you lose a bet on a long shot by a nose—you taste both success and failure at the same time, and as a result, you feel nothing.”
~a Sense of nothing

Man escapes car dangling on Malibu cliff, only to be hit by bus Reuters

Marianne Moore’s poetry of the small produces “the feeling that life is softly exploding around us,” as John Ashbery put it. Is she our greatest modern poet?... A Soul survives iron curtain crossing only to be hit by awkward sense nothingness

Charlotte Brontë’s awkwardness. The unrequited love, the early-morning wedding, the incident with the hairpiece -- her social life was in her writing

Encounters between people, it often seems to me, are like crossings of racing trains at breakneck speed in the deepest night. We cast fleeting, rushed looks at the others sitting behind dull glass in dim light, who disappear from our field of vision as soon as we barely have time to perceive them.

~ Pascal Mercier

In those Simp-kings like high heel shoes “She looked hotter than a welder’s torch and much, much more interesting.”

There was an interesting article in theNew York Times Magazine recently about the nature of meetings, how we continue to have them despite our deep disliking of them, and some ways that people are trying to deconstruct meetings to make them more effective. The title of the article? “Meet is Murder”(!)

The study of creativity carries a quasi-scientific aura and a seemingly irresistible appeal to the business traveler. Thomas Frank is dubious

How to get rid of books cluttering your apartment

Dude No LanD I am in mourning for my life

How to tell if other people think you're attractive according to science Peters and Stephens in Lattitude have a formular

Married at first sight episode

Now my troubles are going to have troubles with me...

~ I Had Trouble in Getting to Solla Sollew a Dr Seuss novel

So many people tolerate racism which is not even close to acceptable because they are happy to do the sideways glance. ...

“Yo Alan, I think you’re a count (sic) and I challenge you to a duel,” she began. The post included a photo of Jones standing in front of a banner with the word “count” on it, Jones unknowingly blocking the “o”.