Gritty grainy Berlin dog on train shot, sent in by @jhedelstein - January 2013
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I'm Jean Hannah Edelstein, a writer, editor and author. This used to be my personal blog, but now I just use it for amusing and interesting internet ephemera. Head to www.jeanhannahedelstein.com for the full-strength version of what I'm thinking and writing.
I'm Jean Hannah Edelstein, a writer, editor and author. This used to be my personal blog, but now I just use it for amusing and interesting internet ephemera. Head to www.jeanhannahedelstein.com for the full-strength version of what I'm thinking and writing.
President Obama inauguration
Hear President Obama take the oath of office and deliver his second inaugural address here.
And for further listening, check out James Taylor performing ‘America the Beautiful’ at the inauguration ceremony here.
Excellent short story by André Aciman on The Granta Podcast, and not just because there’s a character who’s an impeccable punctuator. And it’s on the world’s leading social sound platform.
(via granta)
“What would it be like, I wonder, to move to a new city knowing no one, to traipse in solitude along the snaking path through the field of sofas and thicket of bedrooms and endless vistas of kitchen countertop?”
“do I write intelligable I am genneraly understood tho I do not use that awkward squad of pointings called commas colons semicolons etc and for the very reason that altho they are drilled hourly daily and weekly by every boarding school Miss who pretends to gossip in correspondence… Those who have made grammar up into a system and cut it into classes and orders as the student does the animal or vegetable creation may be a fine recreation for schools but it becomes of no use towards making any one so far acquainted with it as to find it useful—it will only serve to puzzle and mislead to awe and intimidate instead of aiding and encouraging him therefore it pays nothing for the study”
— John Clare on the hindrances of punctuation, as quoted in Jeffrey Robinson’s Romantic Presences (via invisiblestories)
(via thebookreporter)
“…I was riding my charming bike down a charming hill when I felt a massive CLUNK on my head. And I thought, ‘ARGH someone threw something at me!’ because when I lived in London this happened quite often: at least twice a year I’d ride my bike past someone and they’d hurl something at me, an egg or a water balloon or some trash out of a car window. There are quite a lot of people in London who are assholes. But there was something kind of sharp about the thing that the person threw at me…”
SoundCloud: Calling all voice actors!
Scriptwriter and former SoundClouder of the Day Cristina Marras has written a script for radio but needs two voices to act it out. If you’re an actor in need of good material for a showreel, an older actor looking to try something new, or just a person with a great voice, this is for you.
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“I write funny things down, or I tell people funny stories, and they say: Jean, why do these things always happen to you? I shrug and smile as if it’s just a lucky coincidence: that I should be a writer, that I should have these comic experiences. This year I realised that it’s not that an unusual number of funny and strange things happen to me, but that my way of coping is to turn everything funny, to the extent that I will be in the midst of something kind of bad happening and find myself thinking, Well, at least this is going to be a hilarious anecdote. For me, it is an effective survival technique.”
“It was good to be greeted, to be embraced. I’ve missed you, Alastair once said, and my heart jumped at the pleasure of existing in someone else’s life.”
Places Where Single Women Are Encouraged to Seek "The One," and to Which I've Gone, Dutifully, to Befriend No One But Likeminded Women
(Source: thegist)
“There’s something very nice in feeling like you can be understood by people from lots of different places, because you can speak to them, not at them.”
— I wrote a post in response to Tim Parks’ Learning to Speak American.
