January 2010
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On roommates:
You don’t really know them until you have satiated your obsessive compulsive need to alphabetize your collective libraries and thus had the opportunity to judge them, book by book. In my instance, not all that came to light was good, but it is all to be treasured nonetheless, as the likelihood of Chris otherwise filling me in on his love for self-help Zen books, endless Virgil translations,...
Plato: Jim, d'you think the end of the world will come at nighttime?
Jim: Nuh-uh. At dawn.
Ceci ce n'est pas le surréalisme
Climate experts predict that at current rates of global warming, the city will face a tidal rise of 2 feet or more by 2080. The potential effect on Gotham and its surroundings could be so severe that someone ought to be thinking about it right now. So MoMA has commissioned four teams of young architects to anticipate the waters’ rise and come up with new ways to break up the devastating storm...
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