May 2012
6 posts
D. Lessing on what novels are now
Reblogged from Botched & Ecstatic: During that period of three months when I wrote reviews, reading ten or more books a week, I made a discovery: that the interest with which I read these books had nothing to do with what I feel when I read—let’s say—Thomas Mann, the last of the writers in the old sense, who used the novel for philosophical statements about life. The point is, that the...
May 29th
The Raymond Chandler Primer for Mysteries | |... →
May 26th
May 26th
1,072 notes
May 25th
37 notes
May 25th
May 24th
January 2012
2 posts
MarkPritchard: @red_lemonade is having a DNS... →
Jan 4th
MarkPritchard: Ending the year in the desert: I'm... →
Jan 1st
December 2011
8 posts
MarkPritchard: Ron Paul unclear on concept that... →
Dec 30th
Robin as the "Girl Wonder" →
I’ll bet Robin wished he had a pair like that. 
Dec 29th
MarkPritchard: All the cool kids will be at this... →
Dec 13th
MarkPritchard: My brother, a StL Cards fan, said a... →
Dec 12th
MarkPritchard: Still time to buy my novels HOW... →
Dec 10th
MarkPritchard: SEO hackers outraged at Google, as... →
Dec 4th
MarkPritchard: @dylanhorrocks You're supposed to... →
Dec 2nd
MarkPritchard: RT @jonrog1: @BeckyKirsch Wal-Mart... →
Dec 1st
November 2011
1 post
Nov 30th
391 notes
October 2011
34 posts
MarkPritchard: Actually something concrete, not... →
Oct 26th
MarkPritchard: @amck - hilarious: RT... →
Oct 25th
MarkPritchard: Happy birthday, awesome @amck !! →
Oct 25th
MarkPritchard: WTF Google!?! I use Reader EVERY... →
Oct 24th
MarkPritchard: Nice precise use of the word... →
Oct 23rd
MarkPritchard: Great in-depth article about one of... →
Oct 22nd
MarkPritchard: Pandering to Bay Area crowd,... →
Oct 21st
MarkPritchard: 4.2 is estimated #earthquake just... →
Oct 21st
MarkPritchard: @wendybraitman That prob. came out... →
Oct 20th
MarkPritchard: Incident on SWA flight: Americans... →
Oct 20th
MarkPritchard: A recruiter sent me a job listing... →
Oct 19th
MarkPritchard: ‘Pleas helpp.’ Exchange student... →
Oct 18th
MarkPritchard: Best reason I've ever seen to visit... →
Oct 17th
MarkPritchard: AP story on ZYZYVA's founder Howard... →
Oct 16th
MarkPritchard: You MUST READ THAT- ROTFL... →
Oct 13th
MarkPritchard: @dylanhorrocks - You used... →
Oct 13th
Today's fake: Indians imitate San Francisco... →
In San Francisco, an institution known as the Academy of Art University is highly visible around town. Its advertisements are plastered on Muni buses, its own shuttle buses ferry students around the central city, and its logo appears on numerous buildings devoted to classes, workshops, dorms, or other, more vague purposes. A tourist or newcomer might be excused for thinking the Academy of Art...
Oct 12th
MarkPritchard: Was on our SFO-LAX flight! Grabbed... →
Oct 10th
MarkPritchard: Clear Lake, TX #wx: water sluicing... →
Oct 10th
MarkPritchard: Checked in to 14-story Hilton on... →
Oct 9th
MarkPritchard: Sony gets rights to film... →
Oct 9th
MarkPritchard: RT @wired: Exclusive: Computer... →
Oct 8th
NYT: Police Clashes Spur Coverage of Wall Street... →
Research by the NY Times political news column FiveThirtyEight finds that media coverage of the Occupy Wall Street protests has increased since demonstrators clashed with the police, and is beginning to rival coverage given to Tea Party protests in 2009.
Oct 7th
“keithwj: tUnE-yArDs! (Taken with Instagram at NPR Headquarters)”
– NPR  
Oct 7th
171 notes
Happy birthday, Friends of the Urban Forest!
Friends of the Urban Forest photographed the first streets trees they planted 30 years ago. Flickr set at: http://www.flickr.com/photos/friendsoftheurbanforest/sets/72157627700670483/
Oct 7th
Hula hooping lasso trick →
Oct 7th
"Gold" by Delay trees →
Oct 7th
Oct 7th
Celebrating John Lennon’s 71st Birthday With Seven... →
The seven songs are: You’ve Got to Hide Your Love Away Well, Well, Well (not to be confused with “Long-Haired Lady” on McCartney’s solo album “Ram,” which begins with the words “Well, well, well, well, well!”) One Day (At a Time) Meat City Just Because Stepping Out (No doubt completely unrelated to the Phoebe Snow cut) I Don’t Want to...
Oct 7th
Oct 7th
The Raven: John Cusack's Brilliantly Strange... →
Roberto Bolaño, a huge Poe fan and also a fan of detectives and noir, would love it, I hope. #visceralrealists
Oct 7th
Blessedly Imperfect Studio Work: 'Eclipse Series... →
Oct 7th
Big Names Should Work On Small Games (Moving... →
I only tag this because I dig the picture.
Oct 7th