Intelligent thoughts.

So the site's address is moreintelligentlife.com. Of course I had to subscribe to it.

This week's most notable entries:

Bad taste is a good thing—Asserts that "the secret to being well-dressed, this year or any, is to be individual and courageous." I felt like it was a sartorial philosophy I could get behind.

Incidentally, the article compelled me to look up "sartorial," which I had seen all over the place but never defined. I don't usually single words out for their individual merits, but if I had a list of pleasurable words, "sartorial" would be on it, right after "ardent." I have to say "ardent" is legitimately my favorite word, for its clear, hard sound and superb meaning (anything worth doing is worth doing ardently), but mostly for the immortal, "You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you."

Joseph Mitchell's true facts—Subtitled "notes on a reporter-stylist," this profile explores the career of a journalist who showed how artful good journalism can be. Waist-deep in scholastic journalistic pursuits as I am, I appreciated Mitchell's "straining, like a fiction writer, for a deeper kind of fidelity."

On a somewhat related note, I came across a bolstering quotation in the margin of my intro to journalism textbook today: "The infinite volume of unfocused information flooding up from the bottomless computer spring has heightened the value of the guiding editor who is experienced enough in language and judgment to help us paddle onto the shores of meaning." Here's to aiming high.