escaping words ... from my brain
This is where my procrastination-induced and complaint-filled entries lived while I was studying for the bar. Now, I suppose, it's a random space where shorter posts will hang out, eat snacks, and talk about me behind my back.
Writings that take more time will live at my regular blog at escaping words.
what! is this real?
(via dymaxionlife)
Caught a live session on KEXP by Daughter a few weeks ago. Since then, I occasionally get stuck in a loop listening to this particular song, and then these days some Bach. Ugh, I really hated Bach when I was younger, like nngggg why did he have to compose so much stuff?? And now JSB and me are like best buds. Life is funny.
Daughter is Elena Tonra, Igor Haefeli, and Remi Aguilella. They hail from London )where boring names don’t live anymore?).
(via single & happy)
In a bittersweet commemoration of the closing of the Massachusetts Mental Health Center after 91 years of continuous use, artist Anna Schuleit installs 28,000 potted flowers in the interior of the facility.
After the exhibit, the 28,000 potted flowers were delivered to New England shelters, halfway houses, and psychiatric hospitals.
Sorrow & hope in the beauty. Check out the photos & interview with Schuleit.
“What you read when you don’t have to determines what you will be when you can’t help it.” Oscar Wilde
I didn’t realize until a few weeks ago that the Swedish sibling duo of sonic magic behind this awesome Fleet Foxes cover was making other awesome music. I’m a sucker for that harmony.
“Emmylou” is off of their new album The Lion’s Roar, which NPR is streaming, probably not for much longer.
Hm. Sonic sibling magic. Negative one point for team only child. I will never be in a travelling sibling band. I can’t harmonize with myself. Tear, tear, tear.
Happy lunar new year!
Man, how is it already 4709 or whatever? Well, any reason to eat dumplings!
I almost thought my fam didn’t do anything to usher in the Year of the Dragon but then I realized we ate some dumplings that my mom made. And I helped! By which I mean, I helped make like 10 out of the many more before I got shooed away.
Kids in Tenafly, NJ got Monday off! Nice! I remember back in high school we had CKNY - “Chinese Korean New Year”. Yes, the model of inclusion and coolness.
My lunar zodiac animal sign thing is the Dog, which doesn’t get along with the Dragon. I hope this doesn’t mean 4709 isn’t a year to party like it’s 1999.
Here is a korean recipe for dumplings that looks good and the pics of the li’l dumps are so cute!
Hello! I got a little rant-y about Paula Deen.
And I interviewed a lexicographer, Erin McKean, for the iDoneThis blog. “Lexicographer” is fun to say. It has its own rhythm. Erin is the founder of Wordnik, which is a pretty fun & useful site if you use words in your life. That means you, reader.
I kind of don’t know what to say.
Penguins wear traditional Korean hanbok costumes during a photo call held as part of a Lunar New Year event at an aquarium in Seoul.
The questions are still the same.
‘Why?’: Remembering Nina Simone’s Tribute To The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.
Three days after the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in 1968, performer Nina Simone and her band played at the Westbury Music Festival on Long Island, N.Y. They performed “Why? (The King of Love is Dead),” a song they had just learned, written by their bass player Gene Taylor in reaction to King’s death.
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