January 2012
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“And then a check for twenty-five hundred dollars fell out of the envelope. The...”
– Steve Martin, The Pleasure of My Company
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“To be making something as yet unformed, unknown—to be living in a deferred...”
– Moyra Davey, “Polyvalence”
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“In Distinction (1979), a thorough study of “taste” in...”
– Erin Sickler, “Art and the 99%”, Art in America, Jan 2012
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“Ultimately, we know that the creation of a few art stars is based on the...”
– Erin Sickler, “Art and the 99%”, Art in America, Jan 2012
Thanks for explaining to me why I should not beat myself up over the fact that I’m working for racists and why everybody has been calling Time Warner to change their internet package from “standard” to...
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I watched CCTV’s lunar new year variety show with my dad. All the singing and dancing that wasn’t from the Mao era reminded me of this, so at least there was new material. Like that one segment that was literally and seriously called “The Gaga Show”. But some things will always remain the same. You bet they had 888888 good-looking elementary-school-aged geniuses singing...
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things i can do without (a series): #2 CLOTHING
R pointed out I might want to shop for some new clothes, because my super comfy light-blue-and-white striped men’s shirt that I’ve been wearing at least once a week since senior year of high school is “so old that it smells even if you’ve just washed it”. It doesn’t smell bad, it just smells like sleep and bleached coffee stains and shampooed-and-blow-dried...
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I feel like going to the park to hike the 2 mile trail and maybe talk to the horses for a little while (not in a deranged way) and watch the sunset and listen to some music, but I can’t stop feeling I’ll see a snake today. It would be nice if my dog would for once in her life not go crazy at the horses so I can bring her along so I won’t suddenly find myself enveloped in thick...
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“The first language humans had was gestures. There was nothing primitive about...”
– Nicole Krauss, The History of Love
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“And though Rosa describes how with time she married her dark crow, how her...”
– Nicole Krauss, The History of Love
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“She stared at her reflection in the glossed shop windows as if to make sure,...”
– Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
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SF Public Library by Wendy MacNaughton →
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things i remember from my high school bible...
Discussing the lyrics of Paul Wall’s song “Oh Girl” for my presentation because of the line “just like a wolf in sheep’s clothing”
My very pale friend Derek going bright pink in the face from trying not to laugh when I attempted to rap during that presentation
Someone talking about Desperate Housewives because of the opening sequence
Someone else talking...
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This is What Happens When You Give Thousands of... →
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“Dear Thom:
We had your letter this morning. I will answer it from my point of...”
– John Steinbeck’s 1958 response to his eldest son’s proclamation of falling in love.
I have found about 15 solid and timely reminders in here and a great fat affection for the closing line.
via the Rumpus and Letters of Note
(via beenthinking)
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“with whom I shared a hurried encounter—correction: to whom I got close, I...”
– Elie Wiesel, A Mad Desire to Dance
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“I wondered why he’d chosen to bring her to Tanglewood. Simply because he...”
– Philip Roth, The Human Stain
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“The human desire for a beginning, a middle, and an end—and an end...”
– Philip Roth, The Human Stain
Love Poem
It’s so nice to wake up in the morning all alone and not have to tell somebody you love them when you don’t love them any more.
― Richard Brautigan
(via ekatherine)
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“It is impossible to make my portrait because of my mobility. I am not...”
– Anais Nin, The Diary of Anais Nin, Volume IV 1944-1947
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click to make everything ok →
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and there's nothing worse/than/too late
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“The 1st author and his associates reported that the administration of moderate...”
– The interactive effect of personality, time of day, and caffeine: A test of the arousal model. Revelle, William; Humphreys, Michael S.; Simon, Lisa; Gilliland, Kirby Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, Vol 109(1), Mar 1980, 1-31.
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“If he were around this place as a professor, he could teach “Appropriate...”
– Philip Roth, The Human Stain
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“Sincere and empty, totally empty. The sincerity that goes in all directions. ...”
– Philip Roth, The Human Stain
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“A team at Cornell University, with support from Darpa, the Pentagon’s out-there...”
– Wired: Pentagon Scientists Use ‘Time Hole’ to Make Events Disappear (via curiositycounts)
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“Stunned by how little he’d gotten over her and she’d gotten over...”
– Philip Roth, The Human Stain
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i was just listening to a voice memo from earlier...
If you are thinking, ‘you endlessly hyperbolizing lunatic, what kind of a title is that,’ I ask: have you heard your own voice lately? recorded? and played back to yourself? It makes you stare straight ahead in despair, horrified and deeply apologetic at the thought that friends and strangers alike have been listening to this voice since 1988. And I really need to finish this...
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working on new blog
Idea came to mind while reading a GQ article. Spent much of the night thumbing ferociously at Notes. Spent a couple minutes of the night coming up with actually decent content. Spent rest of the night wishing for a pack of cigarettes. Spent morning punishing self for wishing for cigarettes and not getting enough sleep. Feel angsty and exhausted. Must shower to regain human form for work. ...
December 2011
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David Foster Wallace, "The Depressed Person" →
From DFW’s collection of short stories Brief Interviews with Hideous Men. Originally published in Harper’s magazine. Here’s an excerpt from near the end of the story:
The depressed person shared that the most frightening implication of this (i.e., of the fact that, even when she centered and looked deep within herself, she felt she could locate no real feelings for the...
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nemesis required. 6-month project with...
I’ve been trying to think of ways to spice up my life. I’m 35 years old, happily married with two kids and I have a good job in insurance. But something’s missing. I feel like I’m old before my time. I need to inject some excitement into my daily routine through my arm before it’s too late. I need a challenge, something to get the adrenaline pumping again. An...
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“A starched white long-sleeve shirt covers most of it. But a little blue-black...”
– Rivka Galchen, “Wild Berry Blue”
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