January 2011
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Facebook = False sense of intimacy
As the people who actually know me actually know, I am in the final throes of battling my Facebook addiction. That’s why I was particularly tickled this morning when one of my agency partners introduced me to this insightful quote from Zadie Smith’s review of “The Social Network”:
“The last defense of every Facebook addict is: but it helps me keep in contact with...
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Of silence, exile and cunning
Last night I returned from a whirlwind trip to Toronto — thirteen hours’ travel time, from the moment I left my apartment to my eventual arrival back home. I collapsed on the couch with a glass of Scotch and proceeded to watch all the shows I’d DVRd during the course of the busy week. What I noticed disturbed me.
Throughout history, the female artist (in particular the writer) has...
“A great city is nothing more than a portrait of itself, and yet when all is said and done, its arsenal of scenes and images are part of a deeply moving plan. As a book in which to read this plan, New York is unsurpassed. For the whole world has poured its heart into the city by the Palisades, and made it far better than it ever had any right to be.” - Mark Helprin, A Winter’s...
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Why women are the new men →
Everyone’s been talking about this new study about the affect of female tears on men: http://www.npr.org/2011/01/07/132716595/smell-that-sadness-female-tears-turn-off-men. I’ve heard about it from friends, coworkers, NPR, NBC and various other posts on the Internest. What I’m wondering is: What if you were to test this on women? Does seeing men cry have the opposite effect?...