“I once read about a scientific institute which had studied the male erection,” Davies said. “It divided the hard-on into four categories, from soft to hard. "One, tofu. Two, peeled banana. Three, banana. And four, cucumber. Right there and then I knew I had my drama.” Russell T Davies to write new Channel 4 series …
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The novelist Robin Sloan offers a wise middle way, borrowing a concept from share trading, which he applies to writing, but which seems relevant for many modern careers. Think about your work, he suggests, as divided into “stock” and “flow”. Flow is day-to-day, high-visibility stuff: putting yourself out there, networking at conferences, Twitter and LinkedIn, …
The biggest mistake we make is trying to square the way we feel about something today with the way we felt about it yesterday. You shouldn’t even bother doing it. You should just figure out the way you feel today and if it happens to comply with what you thought before, fine. If it contradicts …
The famous basketball coach John Wooden used to always say: “Be quick but don’t hurry.” Which is perfect writing advice. Malcolm Gladwell: ‘No one thinks of me as a potential terrorist any more’ | Books | The Observer Source: theguardian.com
Kindle links: Kindle Unlimited, reading experience
The new Kindle Unlimited campaign is smoking out new opinions on Amazon’s strategy [1]. I liked this comparison of the Kindle to the iPod’s early days, and the evolution from buying single songs to streaming music services (Songza is my favorite). The lack of privacy is of concern to the writer, though buying a Kindle …
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Once upon a time, 12 years ago to be precise, David Bowie said something very perceptive. “Music itself is going to become like running water or electricity,” he told a New York Times reporter. “So it’s like, just take advantage of these last few years because none of this is ever going to happen again. …
I’ve begun reading Kenny Moore’s biography Bowerman and the Men of Oregon and have repeatedly been struck by the activity — physical and mental — of Bill Bowerman, his family, and just about everybody else mentioned. People go canoeing; they work long hours to pay their tuition bills; they teach, raise kids, and build houses. …
Miss Marple
Before we left on our England trip, I loaded up the Kindle with a few hundredweight of e-books thinking, “Oho, eight hours on the flight over, eight hours on the flight back, three weeks of travel — I’ll certainly rip through more than a dozen books!” When I write up my lessons learned from the trip, …
I once made a TV show about an installation by the artist Spencer Tunick, who makes his work out of the naked flesh of human beings. Above the sparkling Tyne, 1,700 people stripped off at dusk and lay across the Millennium Bridge between Gateshead and Newcastle. It was a beautiful and affecting sight. Milling around …
Reading Proust in prison
austinkleon: Daniel Genis spent ten years in prison and read over one thousand books: He read “In Search of Lost Time” alongside two academic guidebooks, full of notations in French, and a dictionary. He said that no other novel gave him as much appreciation for his time in prison. “Of course, we are… Reading Proust …
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