December 2009
59 posts
Brad Neely Micro-Interview, Part III.
KEN BURNS: Robert E. Lee and Ulysses S. Grant are known as the two great generals of the Civil War. What trait did they exhibit? What personal traits make a good leader?
BRAD NEELY: A good leader must be excellent at murder. Their life force must be malodorous like a cheese that hurts while it seduces. Their power levels must always be fun to speculate upon. A good leader must wear his...
Avatar will henceforth be known as...
Starship Troopers 3: The Legend of Pocahontas.
The Maine Solar System Model →
To name a child is to imagine what goes on her tombstone.
– Hannah Frank
When you’re talking about novels, the word for a completely worked-out world in...
– Paul La Farge, from the article I’m reading
Sumerians Look On In Confusion As Christian God... →
“‘I do not understand,’ reads an ancient line of pictographs depicting the sun, the moon, water, and a Sumerian who appears to be scratching his head.”
Pleiades (star cluster) - Wikipedia, the free... →
“In astronomy, the Pleiades, or Seven Sisters, (Messier object 45) is an open star cluster containing relatively young hot B-type stars”
I think this sentence is funny!
Advice: how to kill myself quick without any... →
The internet is a really casual meeting place for horrible people.