“The justification for rap rock seems to be that if you take really bad rock and put really bad rap over it, the result is somehow good, provided the raps are barked by an overweight white guy with cropped hair and forearm tattoos.” IfsSeemsGuyWhiteResultsRocksHairRapOver ItJustificationTattooOverweightWhite Guys Author:John Jeremiah Sullivan
“I think empathy is a guy who punches you in the face at a bus station, and you're somehow able to look at that him and know enough about what situation he was in to know that he had to do that and not to hit back. That's empathy, and nothing ever happens in writing that has that kind of moral heroism about it.” ThinkingKnowsWritingLooksKindEnoughHappensAbleFacesGuySituationMoralEmpathyStationsBusHeroism Author:John Jeremiah Sullivan