December 2008
12 posts
“Ashokan Farewell,” Jay Ungar. Been...
New Elvis Perkins →
“Age 30 is not a magical turning point, however. Openness declines gradually over...”
– From the Scientific American article, Set in our ways: Why change is so hard (via jimray)
Thanks, science.
Hallelujah. →
nervousacid:
Who’d have ever thought that a Leonard Cohen song would be vying for the number-one position on the UK charts in three different versions? The original, the classic Jeff Buckley take, and a recent mawkish version X Factor winner Alexandra Burke are all poised to chart, with Buckley and Burke battling it out for the two top spots. You probably don’t need Scooby Doo to figure out...
Caring For Your Introvert →
This is from the March 2003 Atlantic. I hadn’t seen it before, but now I have, thanks to Spiers. The Introverts’ Rights Movement seems like a tumblelog someone should start:
The worst of it is that extroverts have no idea of the torment they put us through. Sometimes, as we gasp for air amid the fog of their 98-percent-content-free talk, we wonder if extroverts even bother to listen...
supernice:
alexbalk:
In re Kath and Kim, I think...
