me every time ishmael turns an erudite passage about charting whale's migratory patterns into a treatise on the death drive of obsession, or how weaving a sword-mat resembles the workings of free will and chance against fate.
We don’t allow mining in Yellowstone.
We don’t allow mining in Glacier.
We don’t allow mining in Yosemite.
We don’t allow mining in Zion.
We don't allow mining in Acadia.
We don't allow mining in Grand Teton.
We shouldn’t allow mining in the Boundary Waters.
I was one of those people who liked Vampire Weekend from the beginning because I enjoyed that kind of pop sound (even though it was very “of its time”) but when Modern Vampires of the City dropped I felt vindicated because that is a truly great record that still holds up
At some point, people will look back and reflect on the absurdity of society voluntarily building a massive surveillance camera network for the cops just because Amazon had a bad business model that couldn't protect package delivery from the rare occasion of porch theft.
Every one of us has had a car momentarily drive near us without us shooting the driver three times in the head. It is a level of bravery children possess wandering a parking lot. Even chickens cross the street.