Theidlerhour - Bricolage Brain

Goals:

1. Do science. 2. Advance the human race. 3. Make other people happy.

Once you start thinking of ‘poet’ as identity, once you start thinking that being a poet is just like being anything else that you are, as being something else that you were born, then you can go about doing the things that poets do, and you can go about that more comfortably. Or at least I think so. Or at least it gives you a rationale for why you’re doing what poets do. Like, ‘Why are you still in the dark, trying to read, at two o’clock in the morning?’ ‘Oh, because I’m a poet.’ ‘Why are you pulling your car over to write a line down and you’re already late to where you’re going?’ ‘Because I’m a poet.’

Jericho Brown, interviewed by Elisa Gonzalez for Washington Square Review (via bostonpoetryslam)

Epimetheus Above the Rings of Saturn

via reddit

you know those girls that always seem to have unlimited sports related shirts and old camp shirts and work out shorts and their hair is always soft and they’re friends with everyone

If you keep dividing the line segment infinitely you get something really interesting. It is called Cantor Dust. You get an infinite number of points with a total length of zero’ Fathom the Universe

R.Buckminster Fuller. Utopia or Oblivion: The Prospects for Humanity. Pelican. 1973.

Art museum priorities are in order.

A very useful demonstration of the importance of sentence length.