December 2010
24 posts
just finished reading:
recommend!
2010, retrospective notes
notes on books
- I tried to read more ‘classics’. I learned I like contemporary classics, more than, say, classics of the Austen/Bronte variety. I learned that Kerouac is entirely overrated. The favourite of these classics is probably One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest (Ken Kesey), although I just finished The Bell Jar (Sylvia Plath) which, the more I think about it, the more I...
“But, the truth is that Ron is my hero. He’s always there for his...”
– Rupert Grint
Today in 1997, Ron heard Hermione's voice coming...
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“I thought the most beautiful thing in the world must be shadow, the million...”
– Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
ugh. and by ugh, I mean not ugh.
http://annies-eats.net/2010/12/21/candy-cane-macarons-for-a-virtual-holiday-party/
Pitchfork's Top 50 Albums 2010
01. Kanye West
My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
[Def Jam/Roc-A-Fella]
Bearing witness to Kanye West’s very public 2010 has featured many joys, none greater than watching everyone unspool his myriad updates, achievements, and indiscretions into piles of meaning. His persona went to cataclysmic places this year— there were times when he deserved his own cable news ticker. But,...
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