January 2010
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Rioja > Malbec
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I’m tasting a few wines back to back today. Argentinian Malbecs are some of the most popular reds currently, and I’m no exception to the masses who have discovered this varietal from this region over the past few years and have loved it. And there seems to have been winemaking in Rioja ever since there was winemaking. The very idea of this wine makes me think of wine’s long history and...
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“Man is asked to make of himself what he is supposed to become to fulfill his...”
– Paul Tillich
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The Apple Tablet will be a yellow legal pad and...
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A visual on US spending of taxes on military...
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Who are you?
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crashinglybeautiful:
Who am I, you ask? I don’t know, my friend. I am all the languages I ever spoke, I am all the places I ever lived, I am all the people I ever met, I am all the women I ever loved, I am all the writers I ever read; I am all my ancestors – but at least they had the decency of never thinking of themselves as writers. Who am I, you ask? I don’t know, my friend;...
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“It is under his disastrous tenure in the White House that health insurance...”
– James Carville, Democrats need to learn the blame game (via apsies) (via bringmethathorizon) (via think4yourself)
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The Story Of Human Rights [video]
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Alcohol's Neolithic Origins: Brewing Up a... →
Did our Neolithic ancestors turn to agriculture so that they could be sure of a tipple? US Archaeologist Patrick McGovern thinks so. The expert on identifying traces of alcohol in prehistoric sites reckons the thirst for a brew was enough of an incentive to start growing crops.
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“I know he had many admirers; he was not awarded the Nobel Prize for nothing; and of course you would not be here today, doing these researches, if you did not think he was important as a writer. But - to be serious for a moment - in all the time I was with him I never had the feeling I was with an exceptional person, a truly exceptional human being. It is a harsh thing to say, I know, but...
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“Because - so it seemed to me at the time, now I realize how naive this was - I...”
– J. M. Coetzee, Summertime
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100 Ways to Curse in a Foreign Language [pic]
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If Statements vs. Loops: A practical example [pic]
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UFC Fail [pic]
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“In Coetzee’s eyes, we human beings will never abandon politics because...”
– J. M. Coetzee, Summertime
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“But what if we are all fictioneers, as you call Coetzee? What if we all...”
– J. M. Cotezee, Summertime
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"We shall abolish the orgasm. Our neurologists are...
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1984
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“You must have noted how rarely he discussed the sources of his own creativity....”
– J. M. Coetzee, Summertime
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“But that is not how you dance! That is not how you dance! Dance is incarnation. In dance it is not the puppet-master in the head that leads and the body that follows, it is the body itself that leads, the body with its soul, its body-soul. Because the body knows! It knows! When the body feels the rhythm inside it, it does not need to think. That is how we are if we are human. That is why...
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Here's where I think the heart of the novel...
“Yes, I forgot, I have a question. It is this. I am not usually wrong about people; so tell me, am I wrong about John Coetzee? Because to me, frankly, he was not anybody. He as not a man of substance. Maybe he could write well, maybe had a certain talent for words, I don’t know, I never read his books, I was never curious to read them. I know he won a big reputation later; but was he...
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“As for his letters, writing letters to a woman does not prove you love her. This...”
– J. M. Coetzee, Summertime
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“Coetzee was like that, I think. He had made up his mind to be an existentialist and a romantic and a libertine. The trouble was, it did not come from inside him, therefore he did not know how. Freedom, sensuality, erotic love - it was all just an idea in his head, not an urge rooted in his body. He had no gift for it. He was not a sensual being. And anyway, I suspect he secretly like it...
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Watch Last season of ‘Lost’ promises to make ‘Lost’ fans more annoying than ever. Thank you, The Onion
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Please, Lost fans, just shut the fuck up already. Please.
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“Happiness consists in realizing it is all a great strange dream.”
– Jack Kerouac (via myserendipities)
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“With some people it does not matter who they are in love with as long as they...”
– J. M. Coetzee, Summertime
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“Not dignified, you say. Well, that is what you risk when you fall in love. You...”
– J. M. Coetzee, Summertime
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How to survive winning the lottery
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The subject came up, we’ve all heard the stories and seen the stats on how lottery winners are all leading ruined lives or dead five years later, and it’s one of my favorite stories anyway, so as a PSA, I’m telling it.
I was in Florida when they introduced the lottery, and the local paper was pretty good about waiting a few years and then tracking down and...
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“Because if you have fallen in love with a woman you do not sit down and type her one long letter after another, pages and pages, each one ending ‘Yours sincerely’. No, you write a letter in your own hand, a proper love-letter, and have it delivered to her with a bouquet of red roses. But then I thought, perhaps this is how these Dutch Protestants behave when they fall in love:...
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“But there was a quality he did not have that a woman looks for in a man, a quality of strength, of manliness. My husband had that quality. He always had it, but his time in prison here in Brazil, under the militares, brought it out, even though he was not in prison a long time, only six months. After those six months, he used to say, nothing that human beings did to other human beings could...
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“Also he struck me at once, I can’t say why, as celibataire. I mean not just unmarried but also not suited to marriage, like a man who has spent his life in the priesthood and lost his manhood and become incompetent with women. Also his comportment was not good (I am telling you my first impressions). He seemed ill at ease, itching to get away. He had not learned to hide his feelings,...
“Light thinks it travels faster than anything but...
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-Terry Pratchett
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“I’m pretty close to giving up on Mr. Obama, who seems determined to confirm...”
– He Wasn’t The One We’ve Been Waiting For - Paul Krugman Blog - NYTimes.com
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“This part of the world. The part she means is not Merweville or Calvinia but the whole Karoo, perhaps the whole country. Whose idea was it to lay down roads and railway lines, build towns, bring in people and then bind them to this place, bind them with rivets through the heart, so that they cannot get away? Better to cut yourself free and hope the wound heals, he said when they were out...
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“Who was so dumb, so cut off from reality, that he could not distinguish between...”
– J. M. Coetzee, Summertime