here in April, 2008
Todd Hido’s photographs of homes at night are fascinating. Presence and absence.
“I think that’s something I missed about feedreader city. And besides, I think I write less because I’m fed too much.”
“Language is a funny old thing. I just know that the words I grew up with are the “right” words, the same way Nicola knows that her words are right. And they are, and they aren’t… Who am I to tell her that her words are wrong?”
erudite cat
Originally uploaded by broterham
Baby Pangolin Learns to Walk
Originally uploaded by ocelot_eyes
“The arms race on the web is no longer about technology, but about imagination.”
“See, the actual story itself really doesn’t matter to me—it’s the telling that counts.”
“Doing nothing involves breaking sacred rules of middle-class white America: something guaranteed to wake up my dragons of anxiety, even though I am hardly a poster child for the Protestant work ethic. I resisted the urge to get a job selling bagels just to prove I existed.”
“Because story is real. When I write, when I act, when I sing in the car, when I am brave or stubborn enough to keep at it until I have been as specific and honest as I can be in the creation — when I get the story right — it fires all those fabulous mirror neurons, and those moments of story are just as real to my brain as if I were actually doing them”
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