Work Is Occasionally Good For Something

While pulling books from the photography section I came across a beautiful monograph by Lili Almog called Perfect Intimacy. It is a series of photos taken of Carmelite nuns and their monastery. It included relevant quotes, interspersed throughout the photos. This one, from the Testimonies to St. Teresa of the Andes, I found quite staggering:

"If a man is capable of enamoring a woman to the point of making her leave all for him, don't you think that God is capable of making His call irresistible?"

It reminded me of Someone.

Labels: quotes

My New Mission Statement

"His job was to hammer the detritus of fugitive cultural encounters into elegant sentences, lapidary paragraphs, and knowable truth; and, in truth, the loveliness and lucidity of Grover's writing always rose to the triviality of the occasion."

[Dave Hickey writing about Grover Lewis, from the chapter "Magazine Writer" collected in Air Guitar]

Labels: missionstatement, quotes

This is the shiz-nizzle, or something.

What the world needs now... is more witty and insightful commentary like this.

Labels: rhetoric, yogurt

Will This Twitter Widget Work?

This is the only way I'm going to be updating this blog, so it damn well better work.