September 2010
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Watch“Hey bounty hunters! I have a son! Did you know that?”
—Darth Vader get a little excited at the prospect of introducing his just-discovered kid to the family business.
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Michel Houellebecq, The Art of Fiction No. 206
“I tend to think that good and evil exist and that the quantity in each of us is unchangeable. The moral character of people is set, fixed until death.”
From interview with French novelist Michel Houellebecq in this fall’s Paris Review.
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Queens of the Stone Age, “The Lost Art of...
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On coaching: mapping the emotional terrain
I coach teenage girls in soccer in my hometown. The season has been successful so far, with some dips along the way. Such is football.
Probably the biggest challenge for me—an unmarried, thirtysomething, childless man—is accepting that you can’t talk to 15 year-old girls the way you would to similarly aged boys. I’m not a ranter by nature, and I don’t believe you...
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The Four Levels of Social Entrapment
One of the most difficult aspects of interacting with other people is figuring out how to extricate yourself from a conversation without appearing rude or mentally unstable. You aren’t allowed to just walk away - you need to have a reason to stop talking. And the reason can’t be that you want to stop talking. You need to find a way to end the conversation without making it seem...
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Spoon, “They Never Got You,” 2009.
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Violent Femmes, “Add It Up,” 1982.
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The Fall, “Two Librans,” 2000.
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