All things truly wicked.

For some reason after DFW and Vonnegut, I wanted to start this post with a quote by Ernest Hemingway because, if for nothing else, I just wanted to. But I couldn’t decide between two that I’ve always adored, so maybe you’ll tell me which you like you better…

The first: “All things truly wicked start from an innocence.”

And the second: “Never confuse movement with action.”

I’ve always adored that one, as did Marlene Dietrich, who said of it, “In those five words he gave me a whole philosophy.”

In response to people like Juan Williams, here’s a fun new tumblr for you: Muslims Wearing Things.

I found the site via Boing Boing, and while I was there I read an interesting post about how you shouldn’t kill your grandfather while time traveling.

And before we call it a day, here’s three interesting pictures I found online today:

from here.

and

from here.

and

from here.

“I’ve spent all morning getting the runaround from tech support…”

Here’s a glimpse at Daniel Clowes’ new graphic novel, Wilson:

…which I saw at Boing Boing, which also linked to an interview with Clowes in Mother Jones. Should be interesting! You probably know Clowes from Ghost World (perhaps the adaptation starring Thora Birch and Scarlett Johansson and Steve Buscemi more so than the source material) or the not so great Art School Confidential feature film (both directed by Terry Zwigoff), but his other graphic novels are all pretty interesting. Like A Velvet Glove Cast In Iron is pure mind blowing weird, but interesting, and I’d give my highest possible recommendation to David Boring, which is both strange and compellingly readable. And… frighteningly delicious. It’d easily be in my top ten (non superhero) comics of all time, and I’m glad that Time magazine agrees with me.

Where there’s smoke…

from Boing Boing:

Alexey Titarenko’s “City of Shadows” is a series of haunting, gorgeous long-exposure shots of street-scenes in St Petersburg, Russia. The long exposure-times turn the people in the shots into ghosts and suggestions of motion.

And this is Titarenko’s site.