Albi decimated my glasses :( thank goodness for warranties.
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Wake Forest, you're killing me
Another CEO commencement speaker reveals that the business vs. liberal arts battle on campus is going even worse than I thought.
The comparisons at the end of the OGB article are especially amusing, e.g. Yeats vs. Dr. Seuss:
Vice President Joe Biden, 2009: “William Butler Yeats was right…There’s a great line in one of Yeats’ poems about the first rising in Ireland. It’s called Easter Sunday, 1916. And the line is more applicable to your generation than it was to his Ireland in 1960. And he said: All changed, changed utterly. A terrible beauty has been born. When I graduated, all had not changed utterly yet. Today, it has. And in the last 12 to 15 years, a terrible beauty has been born. It’s a different world out there than it has been any time in the last millennia. But we have an opportunity to make it beautiful, because it is in motion.”
Ergen, 2012: “He [The Cat in the Hat] says, ‘Young cat, keep your eyes open enough, oh the stuff you will learn, the most wonderful stuff.’ And then later on, ‘the more that you read, the more things you will know, the more that you learn, the more places you will go.’ Without question, that is the single best piece of advice I can give you today. “
Amazon's Top 20 Most Well-Read Cities in America
Alexandria, Arlington, and DC all make the list! Although the study’s definition of “well-read” doesn’t seem to account for the quality of the books…
interesting, but sad article. definitely worth a look.
life:
On the anniversary of Hemingway’s Old Man and the Sea winning the Pulitzer Prize for fiction, LIFE.com presents pictures of the writer in Cuba — and the unsettling, untold story behind the photos.
Not originally published in LIFE. An image from a contact sheet of Alfred Eisenstaedt’s pictures of Ernest Hemingway in Cuba, August 1952.
See more here.
I’d like to say my use of the board has improved throughout the year, but the evidence is stacked against me.
I love artist Noemie Goudal’s interpretation of falling water. You can see more from her series Les Amants here.
lovely!
I’ve decided that my dog is part schnauzer, part ewok.
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Cartoon of the day. For more cartoons from this week’s issue: http://nyr.kr/IhaZLR
(Source: newyorker.com)
one of my students painted Olivia the Pig for me in art!
