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Speaks softly, doesn’t lie
Speaks softly, doesn’t lie
From This American Life, an Iowa farmer: “Trump has no feeling. Absolutely none. That’s why I like Joe Biden, because he has a soft voice and he doesn’t tell lies. I wanted someone who cares for someone or something besides himself.”
#politics
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Speaks softly, doesn’t lie
Designing sardines
Designing sardines
“We went against all packaging and labeling norms in this usually traditional industry to appeal to today’s quarantined customer.”
#design#sardines
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Designing sardines
Sean Malone (1970–2020)
Sean Malone (1970–2020)
Sean loved pencils and brought a documentarian’s mind to the history of the Eberhard Faber Blackwing 602 and all things Faber (Faber-Castell and Eberhard Faber). And he lived a life as a brilliant musician.
#friendship#music#pencils
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Sean Malone (1970–2020)
Dr. Jill Biden
Dr. Jill Biden
What I find most noteworthy about Epstein’s screed is not its condescending misogyny (“Madame First Lady — Mrs. Biden — Jill — kiddo: a bit of advice”) but its failure to consider the ways in which academic honorifics function in and out of academia.
#academia
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Dr. Jill Biden
“Old” ones
“Old” ones
The narrator’s grandmother “could never resign herself to buying anything from which one could not derive an intellectual profit.”
#Proust
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“Old” ones
Steam heat
Steam heat
“Turn-of-the-century faith in ventilation to combat disease pushed engineers to design steam heating systems that still overheat apartments today.”
#COVID-19#culture#design
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Steam heat
Proust for two
Proust for two
The ascent of Mount Proust is the Four Seasons Reading Club’s greatest challenge to date.
#Proust
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Proust for two
A storybook house
A storybook house
Stefan Zweig sketches the house of Emile Verhaeren, poet.
#Zweig
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A storybook house
Happy birthday, Willa Cather
Happy birthday, Willa Cather
“Now I don’t often write, even to my dearest friends, about my own work, but you just tuck this away where you can read it”: from a 1934 letter.
#WillaCather
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Happy birthday, Willa Cather
2020
2020
Sometimes, I just stare at the stars on a cold, wintry night and pretend 2020 never happened”: from today’s Zippy.
#comics#Zippy#COVID-19
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2020
CW Pencil and
CW Pencil and
“After almost six years exclusively selling graphite, the notoriously niche CW Pencil Enterprise is soon to become a full-service office supply shop.”
#pencils#pens#stationery#supplies
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CW Pencil and
One, two, three ...
One, two, three ...
From The New York Times, “Three Steps for Safe Living.” And from The Washington Post, “Eight facts about the coronavirus to combat common misinformation.”
#COVID-19
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One, two, three ...