things that shaped the comics

Inspiration.

Songs, scripture, images and old wisdom that feed the little nothings. Tap a card to flip it.

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Mac Miller: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert

Mac Miller

NPR Music Tiny Desk, 2018.

Why it matters

Official upload by NPR Music.

Incubus: Morning View Sessions

Incubus

Live in New York City, released 2002.

Why it matters

Uploaded by Front Row Music (not the band’s official channel), so it may disappear.

Pearl Jam: MTV Unplugged

Pearl Jam

New York, March 16, 1992.

Why it matters

Fan upload; may be taken down. Replace with an official link if one appears.

Alice in Chains: MTV Unplugged

Alice in Chains

Brooklyn Academy of Music, April 10, 1996.

Why it matters

Fan upload of the full album; the band’s official channel has individual songs only.

Metallica: S&M

Metallica

With the San Francisco Symphony, Berkeley, April 1999.

Why it matters

Fan upload; may be taken down.

Stoic thought of the day

"But, O noble sir," etc. Plato, Gorgias, 512 D. XXVII. "And as for those parts," etc. A quotation from Euripides, Chryssipus, frag. 839 (Nauck). "With meats," etc. From Euripides, Supplices, 1110. XXXIII. "They both," i.e. life and wrestling. "Says he" (63): Plato, quoted by Epictetus, Arr. i. 28, 2 and 22.

Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 12.26

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A new passage every day from the Stoics. Marcus Aurelius wrote the Meditations as private notes to himself.

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