April 2010
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bored to death
I walked home last night through the East Village with one of my writing classmates.
“You look tired,” she said.
“Oh, do I?” I said, and I tried to excuse it due to work. And I also tried to excuse it due to not eating well (on account of the root canal, you know?). And I tried to excuse it and excuse it until there wasn’t anything left to say other than, “Oh.” And I have been tired lately. It’s...
Young
A thousand doors ago when I was a lonely kid in a big house with four garages and it was summer as long as I could remember, I lay on the lawn at night, clover wrinkling over me, the wise stars bedding over me, my mother’s window a funnel of yellow heat running out, my father’s window, half shut, an eye where sleepers pass, and the boards of the house were smooth and white as wax...
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announcement!
I’ve decided to take advantage of my given name’s inherent awesomeness. What we loathe as children we come to embrace as adults, apparently.
michelle-said.tumblr.com
“OK! Cut to the gates of heaven. Cut back to me. Cut to a winged monkey playing a...”
– life serial’s take on the magical properties of FrütStix has given my life new meaning.
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“Well, chums, here I am again with my bagful of dirt about your disorderly...”
– Strunk & White do not want you to affect a breezy manner in your writing.
I think I need to read The Elements of Style again.
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On the other hand, it's pretty cool having the...
A wild dog could chew my face off and I wouldn’t feel a thing. Or an alligator. Or a bunny rabbit. Any animal with teeth, really.
I can’t feel my nose.
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Rilo Kiley - With Arms Outstretched
Rilo Kiley...
curvesball asked: GIRL HOW YOU GET SO FINE.
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projectgutenberg:
Rapid motion through space elates one; so does notoriety; so does the possession of money. These were three good reasons for Jimmy’s excitement.
- James Joyce, ‘After the Race’ from Dubliners (1914) [full text]
letters to a young civil engineer
Last night my little brother called me. I am not really much of a phone person so whenever my phone actually rings, I kind of sit back in shock for a few minutes before I answer. (“What is this device I use to text and email and play solitaire doing? There is so much noise and buzzing and ringing! What is going on?!”) And if you’re calling from a number I don’t recognize? Fuhgeddaboutit. You’re...
The Arcade Fire - Wake Up
For Jimmy.
“Cooper’s art has some defects. In one place in ‘Deerslayer,’...”
– James Fenimore Cooper, according to Mark Twain (1895)
I am in favor of raising the dead and/or cloning if it involves Mark Twain being alive again solely for the purposes of having mint juleps and talking shit about The Last of the Mohicans. (link)
This morning I woke up in a panic that I had somehow given myself a haircut like Kate Gosselin. I mean, obviously not the haircut she has now, but the old one. You know, the one where she had the spikes in the back and the sheet of gelled-stiff hair in the front, otherwise known as a reverse mullet. Oh god, I thought this morning, my eyes opening wide with urgency, as if on springs. I’ve ruined...
my newest time suck →
Where else can I make the judgment in the match-up of Tom Hanks vs. bifocal lenses?
(Winner: Tom Hanks.)
“I don’t know why people are so keen to put the details of their private life in...”
– Banksy, in this interview conducted by David Fear/Time Out New York.
This made me pause and think. I was discussing superpowers with someone the other day, whether I would rather fly or be invisible. When it comes to superpowers, I always tend to err on the side of caution. For example, if you are...
sometimesagreatnotion:
My Life - Billy Joel
I...
“He shall be washed as white as snow,
By all the martyr’d virgins kiss,
While...”
– The Hippopotamus (via tseliot)
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“A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them...”
– Pietro Aretino
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haiku to an antihistamine
loratadine, love
costly brand name: Claritin
allergy relief
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I have watched every single installment of this. →
I honestly can’t tell if that is cool or uncool. Either way, I’ve DONE IT.
The Go! Team - Huddle Formation
This song will...
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what i talk about when i talk about TV: reality
American Idol - I was out of the country for awhile so I missed two seasons. Then I come back and it feels like I’ve stepped into a Ray Bradbury/Sound of Thunder alternate universe. Who killed the butterfly? Why is Ellen Degeneres on the show? I don’t get it. Who is this Kara chick? What happened to Paula? It’s very much like I went from one world into another...
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“We must make the choices that enable us to fulfill the deepest capacities of our...”
– Thomas Merton
i am good at some things
Dear Y’all,
Yesterday I went to dinner as a goodbye to my boss who is leaving and then I went to my weekly writing workshop where people took a look at the story I had written and said that it wasn’t as bad as I thought it was. I mean, they didn’t say that in so many words, but they did say, “You are awesome at dialogue!” That right there proves that I am awesome at dialogue. That right there is...
