The next time you meet some person who is utterly captivated by some undertaking that completely mystifies you, give him the benefit of the doubt. Hold back on your instinctive imputing of excess spare time and hang the obsession in a tickler-file in the back of your brain to pull out and think about in …
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I noticed that touring — which is wonderful in some ways — is absolutely confining in other ways. It’s so difficult… you just can’t think about anything else. You try your hardest: You take books with you and word processors, and you’re definitely going to do something with the time. And you never do. It’s …
(via The Frustrating, Dizzying Career of Stanley Fish | The New Republic) Source: newrepublic.com
(via A 19th-Century Vision of the Year 2000 | The Public Domain Review) Source: publicdomainreview.org
Monday Assorted Links
When Procrastination doesn’t keep me from doing what I should be doing, I fall back on creating a links post. Digitized K-mart in-store background music (1989-1993). As Susie Bright said in her Facebook post, “This is a soundtrack waiting for its porn film.” Pick your guru carefully. 19th-century views of the Year 2000. Alternate Histories has released …
1. You are already perfect, whole, and mentally healthy exactly as you are. 2. You are always capable of convincing yourself otherwise. MNCT 995 – The Essence of the Inside-Out Understanding Source: mcssl.com
Pre-Med: Preparing the Instruments
It’s worth stopping to consider what the Doc Martin creators did next. One thing we know they did not do, for whatever reasons, was go back to Simon Mayle. They needed a writer who could think in terms of serial television storytelling by creating a world that could hold a supporting cast of regular characters causing trouble …
A Facelift for Shakespeare
A new translation effort aims to make all of Shakespeare’s plays comprehensible to today’s audiences Source: A Facelift for Shakespeare I once interviewed an actor playing Hamlet who preferred using Shakespeare’s language in a production where the rest of the cast played a revised text. He felt the text was perfectly understandable if it was …
The Price We Pay for Sitting Too Much
For every half-hour working in an office, people should sit for 20 minutes, stand for eight minutes and then move around and stretch for two minutes, Dr. Hedge recommends, based on a review of studies that he has presented at corporate seminars and expects to publish. He says standing for more than 10 minutes tends …
Pre-Med: The Doc Martin Movies
Telling the story of Doc Martin is a complicated business from the start: do we begin with the first movie, Saving Grace (2000), and then watch the two movies that followed– Doc Martin (2001) and Legend of the Cloutie (2003)? Or should we instead watch them as part of the character’s chronology — that is, start …
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