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It is designed to break your heart…The game begins in spring, when everything else begins again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains come, it stops and leaves you to face the fall alone.

former MLB commissioner A. Bartlett Giamatti

1 week ago

Heroes #8

Didier Drogba

The first ever Detroit City FC game, right after the first ever goal

The first ever Detroit City FC game, right after the first ever goal

Don’t ever forget that you’re a citizen of this world, and there are things you can do to lift the human spirit, things that are easy, things that are free, things that you can do every day. Civility, respect, kindness, character. You’re too good for schadenfreude, you’re too good for gossip and snark, you’re too good for intolerance…

Aaron Sorkin

(Source: syr.edu)

2 weeks ago

Sobriety, laudable in many respects, does imply rigidity of thought. The best presidents were open-minded, and generally open to a drink. The nondrinkers, at least over the last century or so, were terrible presidents.

Timothy Egan

1 month ago

There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there always has been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that “my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.

Isaac Asimov

1 month ago

I’m basically an artist. I’m no different from a painter, who sits there and does what he loves. Would you ask a guy who’s been painting his whole life, ‘why do you keep painting? Why don’t you retire?’ Retire to what?

Ralph Baer, inventor of the Magnavox Odyssey and Simon

(Source: The Atlantic)

2 months ago

Enjoy Everything

Miyamoto

2 months ago

Essential Albums #7

Olivia Tremor Control — Black Foliage