September 2011
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“If I was trying to explain baseball to someone who had never heard of it, I...”
– Baseball Night in America | Joe Posnaski, Sports Illustrated
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Watchjunleenyc:
Bring to Light is a free nighttime contemporary art festival in New York City that takes place simultaneously with “nuit blanche” events in cities around the world. Bring to Light invites emerging and established artists to make site-specific installations of light, sound, performance and projection art—creating an immersive spectacle for thousands of visitors to re-imagine...
Few Drug Users Among Welfare Applicants | NYT →
Preliminary figures compiled under a new state law requiring drug tests for welfare applicants show that they are less likely than other people to use drugs, not more.
The results have prompted Carl Hiaasen, the Florida columnist and author, to suggest that the people who came up with the law should be the ones submitting specimens. Mr. Hiaasen, saying “there is a certain public interest...
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“I liked things better when I didn’t understand them.”
– Bill Watterson, author of Calvin and Hobbes. (via minusmanhattan)
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“I came to this weird realization, reading about what’s going on in Africa and...”
– Patton Oswalt, interviewed in The Onion A.V. Club (via sarahspy)
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