Sublime
An inspiration engine for ideas
arranger Gil Evans,
Ted Gioia • How to Listen to Jazz
Bill Walsh (who I’ve described exclusively as my personal hero since first picking up a copy of his essential text The Elephants of Style: A Trunkload of Tips on the Big Issues and Gray Areas of Contemporary American English
Emmy J. Favilla • A World Without "Whom"
Who was Jack Gilbert? Students told me he was the most extraordinary man they’d ever encountered. He had seemed not quite of this world, they said. He seemed to live in a state of uninterrupted marvel, and he encouraged them to do the same. He didn’t so much teach them how to write poetry, they said, but why: because of delight. Because of stubborn
... See moreElizabeth Gilbert • Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear
The very best way to describe Scott Peterson’s demeanor is that it looks like he’s constantly posing for a photograph nobody is taking.
David Foster Wallace • A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments
The very best way to describe Scott Peterson’s demeanor is that it looks like he’s constantly posing for a photograph nobody is taking.
David Foster Wallace • A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again
I miss and love with all my purple fist a strange girl from a flamboyant and frightening family, in many ways a flamboyant and frightening girl, perched high in the crow’s nest of the Frequent and Vigorous vessel, scanning gray electrical expanses for the lonely spout of a legitimate telephone call.