December 2008
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The Raconteurs, “Broken Boy Soldier”
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“Long Snake Moan” by PJ Harvey
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“You can drag a horticulture, but you can’t make her think.”
– Dorothy Parker
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Why Failure Inspires Some and Demoralizes Others:... →
“Common sense suggests that ability inspires self-confidence. And it does for a while—so long as the going is easy. But setbacks change everything. Dweck realized—and, with colleague Elaine Elliott soon demonstrated—that the difference lay in the kids’ goals. ‘The mastery-oriented children are really hell-bent on learning something,’ Dweck says, and ‘learning goals’...
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“Life is intrinsically, well, boring and dangerous at the same time. At any given...”
– Edward Gorey
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“I cordially dislike allegory in all its manifestations, and always have done...”
– J.R.R. Tolkein
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Elliott Smith’s “Coast to Coast”
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“Get Your Snack On” by Amon Tobin
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“Who was ‘Venn’ and his diagrams? Was he the most boring child ever? ‘Father, I...”
– Eddie Izzard
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“It is ironic that the United States should have been founded by intellectuals,...”
– Richard Hofstadter
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The Misfits, “Astro Zombies”
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“Fantasy, abandoned by reason, produces impossible monsters; united with it, she...”
– Francisco Goya
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“Un Poison Violent, C’Est Ça...
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“Home for [Ramush] Haradinaj is a plateau called Dukagjin, in extreme western Kosovo, along the mountains of northern Albania, to which culturally it is very similar. It contains perhaps a hundred villages and a few large towns, along with a few - now very few - communities of Serbs. The Albanians are divided into clans and closely knit farming families, among whom the Haradinajs have long...
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“Broke Down Engine Blues” by Blind...