JR
JR
NationalityFrench
ProfessionArtist
Date of Birth22 February 1983
CountryFrance
thinking president television
Obama's got a great sense of humor, but mainly he has a great thinking presence, which is uncommon. It's hard to imagine being able to do, think over answers and deliver them on television. If I were president I would constantly be spluttering.
sound would-be ifs
Twitter. It's not a good sound, is it? If it were worth doing, there would be a better word for it.
writing thinking smooth
I think what's really hard is making sense and making what you write clear and smooth-flowing.
dog nature cat
I do not know what the cat can have eaten. Usually I know exactly what the cat has eaten. Not only have I fed it to the cat, at the cat's insistence, but the cat has thrown it up on the rug, and someone has tracked it all over onto the other rug. I do not know why cats are such habitual vomiters. They do not seem to enjoy it, judging by the sounds they make while they are doing it. It's their nature. A dog is going to bark. A cat is going to vomit.
matter usage ought
Usage ain't always a matter of ought.
thinking scary lines
Think about scary movies: There's a fine line between horror and humor.
roots swamps american-english
That's American English for you: more roots than a mangrove swamp.
husband writing thinking
I think a writer is not an ideal husband... Writers tend to get off into their own heads and not notice the people that they're living with, or they get irritable with the people that they're living with when the people insist on being noticed.
cat hey problem
If a cat spoke, it would say things like, 'Hey, I don't see the problem here.'
real language far-away
When money gets too far away from actual, physical, real equity and property it gets too abstract and too distantly derived and then suddenly it's not worth anything anymore. And the same is true of language.
weed wife trouble
When I weed, I like to get off into my own head. For one thing, my wife plants and I have trouble telling which plants are weeds and which are my favorite plants. So I tend to hop around and grab the weeds that I know are weeds. So I don't weed all that linearly. I tend to weed haphazardly.
long letters abcs
To me, letters have always been a robust medium of sublimation. I don't remember what I was like before I learned my ABC's, but for as long as I can remember I have made them with my fingers and felt them in my bones.
weed garden thinking
I heard on public radio recently, there's a thing called Weed Dating. Singles get together in a garden and weed and then they take turns, they keep matching up with other people. Two people will weed down one row and switch over with two other people. It's in Vermont. I don't think I'd be very good at Weed Dating.
father organization president
Being president of too many well-meaning organizations put my father into an early grave. The lesson in this was not lost on me.