William playing pool at Atlassian’s San Francisco office
Posts in the misc category
But the skill I picked up in school that turned out to be the most valuable was learning how to take a punch. We had these insane critiques where we’d trash each other viciously. […] It was an art form in itself. We were basically trying to see if we could get each other to drop out of school.
— Mike Monteiro talks about design & business in an interview
Lunch with Jill & William at Twitter headquarters in San Francisco
Working at Atlassian’s office in San Francisco, CA
Can you pretend I
didn’t say any of the
things I’ve said so far?
—Found haiku in Louie (Season 1 Episode 10)
Who in hell ever respected Shelley, Whitman, Poe, O. Henry, Verlaine, Swinburne, Villon, Shakespeare ect when they were alive. Shelley + Swinburne were fired from college; Verlaine + O Henry were in jail. The rest were drunkards or wasters and told generally by the merchants and petty politicians and jitney messiahs of their day that real people wouldn’t stand it. And the merchants and messiahs, the shrewd + the dull, are dust — and the others live on.
— F. Scott Fitzgerald responds to hate mail
Previously: “It’s only ugly because it’s new and you don’t like it”
Sarah Kay and Phil Kaye at The Public Theater in New York
Performing a duet poem at Sarah Kay’s No Matter the Wreckage book release.
Skype reserves all rights
not expressly granted to
you under these Terms.
—Found haiku in Skype Terms of Use (source)
Trinket, the blanket hog
For the last six months,
my boyfriend and I have been
on a taco hunt.
—Found haiku in Yelp review of Taqueria Los Pericos in Campbell, California (source)
The New York Philharmonic, Bryn Terfel & Emma Thompson in Sweeney Todd
Stephen Sondheim joins the cast & orchestra on stage
I was a teen when I watched the 1982 production of Sweeney Todd starring George Hearn and Angela Lansbury on a scratchy VHS. It instantly became one of my favorite musicals.
Years later, I got the concert DVD starring George Hearn and Patti LuPone. Great performances captured with better sound & video quality than before.
The story is packed with visuals. A film version was inevitable. When the movie dropped — directed by Tim Burton, no less — I was beyond excited. I watched it in theater multiple times.
Finally, more than a decade after watching that VHS tape in Drama class, I saw Sweeney Todd live! Opening night. Played by the New York Philharmonic, starring Bryn Terfel and Emma Thompson. An amazing amount of talent took the stage.
It’s fun seeing how different each version is while staying true to the original story and lyrics. They all shine in their own way. I’m looking forward to the next one.
We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it’s forever.
—Carl Sagan in Cosmos
You gotta pay the
troll toll, if you want to get
into that boy’s hole.
—Found haiku in It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia (Season 4, Episode 13)
If you don’t understand the business of your art then it is just a hobby.
—Julia Eastwood
Two taps every time
you get up from a table
or leave a lectern.
—Found haiku in House of Cards (Season 1, Episode 12)
