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“At least half of all writing involves just sitting and staring into space. Letting your brain out to hunt down ideas, bringing them back all warm and bloody between its teeth.” — Warren Ellis (via)
When did they let Willie Aames into The Velvet Underground?
noun /hæŋœ’vrə/
The sum of an inebriate’s lifework.
40 years ago a 38-year-old man took mankind’s first step onto another world.
I’m 38, and I’ll consider it a grand accomplishment if I can get my son to stop picking his nose and handing me the contents.
“He’s gone. Hard to believe. He was a brilliant man — a wondrous combination of literary skill, honesty, humor and the occasional burst of pure heavenly bullshit. In other words, an Irishman.” — Dave Barry on Frank McCourt
“Made the boys laugh so hard at dinner that one vomited up part of his hamburger. That’s fatherhood, right there.” —
I have a new milestone to achieve.
I think matthewb sums it up nicely:
On the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the moon landing, achieved on less processing power than a cellphone, Buzz Aldrin thinks further afield in The Washington Post.
To infinity and beyond, Buzz.