http://firasd.org Letters from the Zeitgeist Wed, 18 Jun 2008 21:24:25 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en From someecards.com, for "when you care enough to hit send": http://firasd.org/weblog/2008/06/18/some-ecards The Fringe Benefits of Failure, and the Importance of Imagination: The knowledge that you have emerged wiser and stronger from setbacks means that you are, ever after, secure in your ability to survive. You will never truly know yourself, or the strength of your relationships, until both have been tested by ... http://firasd.org/weblog/2008/06/14/jk-rowling-harvard But when you said that I wasn't worth talking to, I had to take your word on that. — 'Divorce Song', Liz Phair Carrie Brownstein comments on the 15th anniversary reissue of Exile in Guyville: In 1993 I moved to Olympia, Washington to attend college. The Northwest was full of incendiary bands ... http://firasd.org/weblog/2008/06/12/carrie-brownstein-liz-phair Why is The New Yorker awesome? Because Anthony Lane's review of 'Sex and The City' says this of Sarah Jessica Parker's dress montage: Compare the quick-change sequence in “Funny Face,” with Audrey Hepburn robed in one Givenchy masterpiece after another, and you sense not merely the greater snap in Stanley Donen’s ... http://firasd.org/weblog/2008/06/10/new-yorker-conference Joel Spolsky: During the lease negotiation, I sent the landlord a long list of upgrades we wanted---at our expense, of course. Glass partitions, floor-to-ceiling mosaic tile, imported German fittings by Dornbracht, granite and marble---and that was just what we wanted for the shower. ... Like many architects who do a lot of ... http://firasd.org/weblog/2008/06/07/designing-offices http://firasd.org/weblog/2008/06/02/perspective-hyper-connected The Daily Show on 'Sex and the City': Jon: It's quite a phenomenon. How was it? Samantha Bee: Honestly Jon, I don't know where to start. I mean, I know everyone's excited about the movie and from the previews I expected it to be some sort of drama about four middle-aged alcoholics who ... http://firasd.org/weblog/2008/06/02/daily-show-sex-and-the-city Interviewed by CBC's Sook-Yin Lee, January 2008. Ugg Boots? I don't quite understand the appeal to them. If you ask an Australian about them as a fashion statement they'd laugh at you, because they're for housewives in the outback. Going back in the time machine, to the 1970s I think. Candies, plastic stilettos ... http://firasd.org/weblog/2008/05/28/john-fluevog-manolo-blahnik http://firasd.org/weblog/2008/05/07/dilbert-average From The Onion: The Pentagon announced Monday that it had developed a new chemical weapon called "ennui gas," a nerve agent that overwhelms its victims with sudden philosophical distress over the meaningless tedium of human life. Symptoms include uncontrollable sighing, repeated utterances of the phrase "What's the use?" a confusion and bitterness ... http://firasd.org/weblog/2008/04/26/ennui-gas