September 2010
63 posts
“The religious impulse – which includes the sense of awe and mystery we feel when...”
– Philip Pullman (via sevenofcups)
Wannabe a Writer We've Heard Of? by Jane... →
One for the writers - you’ve probably seen one of my numerous recommendations for Jane Wenham-Jones’ Wannabe a Writer? (one of my top three books on writing, despite the naff title), and soon it will have a sequel. This one’s about publicising one’s work.
“Passing up a flight of stairs we entered a large, cheerful-looking room,...”
– Victorian vegetarian restaurant review (part of today’s series for Hug a Vegetarian Day)
“I have no doubt that it is a part of the destiny of the human race, in its...”
– Henry David Thoreau (part of today’s series for Hug a Vegetarian Day)
“I do not like eating meat because I have seen lambs and pigs killed. I saw and...”
– Vaslav Nijinsky (part of today’s series for Hug a Vegetarian Day)
“Nothing will benefit human health and increase chances for survival of life on...”
– Albert Einstein (part of today’s series for Hug a Vegetarian Day)
“You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed in...”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson (part of today’s series for Hug a Vegetarian Day)
“Fork: An instrument used chiefly for the purpose of putting dead animals into...”
– Ambrose Bierce (part of today’s series for Hug a Vegetarian Day)
“Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism, yet we make the same...”
– Robert Louis Stevenson (part of today’s series for Hug a Vegetarian Day)
“One farmer says to me, “You cannot live on vegetable food solely, for it...”
– Henry David Thoreau (part of today’s series for Hug a Vegetarian Day)
“Think of the fierce energy concentrated in an acorn! You bury it in the ground,...”
– George Bernard Shaw (part of today’s series for Hug a Vegetarian Day)
Love & Death in Stephen King's Pet Sematary →
A very interesting article - best read after the book, for spoiler reasons - on the one book that can reliably scare the hell out of me every time I read it. People often don’t expect that book to be as bone-chilling as it is, perhaps because of the title; perhaps because they saw the adaptation which doesn’t really capture what’s so creepy about it. Deeply unsettling stuff.
Wow, that ‘body type’ cartoon I posted got far more reblogs than anything else I’ve ever posted. Glad you all liked it - I thought it made a valid point when I saw it.
I feel kind of guilty now that anyone following me on the strength of that might expect more of the same - I don’t post a lot of stuff like that, I have to admit. But hey, if you like history and silly...
“I like the idea of hating a character initially, but then growing to like him. ...”
– Johnny Depp on his character Dean Corso in The Ninth Gate.
“We’d like to apologise to our viewers in the north. It must be awful for...”
– Victoria Wood, no doubt being as facetious in writing that line as I am in posting it…
“Novelists are good at turning personal humiliations and losses into stories and...”
– Margaret Drabble