John Szarkowski, former MoMA curator. An excerpt from a letter he wrote to MoMA accepting their job offer, which he'd considered at length while at home on Lake Superior: "No matter how hard I looked, the Lake gave no indication of concern at the possibility of my departing from its shores, and I finally decided that if it can get along without me, I can get along without it."
Remind me that I need to buy that Hood record one of these days.
Dude: A State of Mind . And duuuuuude: First Ascent . Depressing but good: Darwin's Nightmare . Just plain good: Touch the Sound .
Only if there is a DVD player attached.
This has literally kept me up at night (and I've finished reading it!): Savage Summit: The Life and Death of the First Women of K2 . AMAZING: Mission Al Jazeera: Build a Bridge, Seek the Truth, Change the World .
Robert f-ing Fisher. No shit.