January 2012
Let’s play a game called, “Which Soup Should I Make?”
Parsnip soup.
Broccoli soup
Garlic soup
Carrot soup
If I make the soup you voted for, I will send you the soup.
(Not really.)
an email I am about to send:
Did you open up a Word doc on my computer, a sort of embarrassingly poem-ish thing actually, about DYING, and change the title to, “Don’t You Eat All of My Leeks”? Or did I call it that myself, for some reason I am no longer in touch with?
Plz advise.
Coming & Crying: January 25 at Kelly Writers... →
comingandcrying:
January 25, 2012 6pm Kelly Writers House 3805 Locust Walk, Philadelphia, PA 19104 Join us (Melissa and Meaghan) at Kelly Writers House to talk Coming & Crying, writing, feminism, and ladybiz. There will be a reception and there will be books!
If you live in Philadelphia, come hang out with us at the Kelly Writer’s House, which as I understand it is a very utopian...
December 2011
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There is a bobby pin on the ground outside of the front door of our apartment building. It’s sitting on the concrete steps and what’s notable about this bobby pin is it has been there for at least a month. At least! I remember seeing it in its earliest days of being there and smiling to myself, thinking it probably came out of my hair when I was putting on a winter hat on the way...
“I read a profile of her once in which she talked about the black holes of outer...”
– Nell Boeschenstein on Emmylou Harris, in a piece for The Morning News that is about much more than Emmylou Harris (this is not to say that Emmylou Harris wouldn’t be a totally laudable focus for a reflective essay). (thx, Edith’s longreads!)
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So I’m on this flight from NYC to Charlotte today, it’s super-delayed on the tarmac and I’m sitting next to two people about my age who did not know each other but talked so loud that I shared that ugh i know ARE THEY EVEN HUMAN? look about them with two separate people. I would give some examples of their conversation but it would be too painful for me to revisit. Okay wait I...
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“I learned that money can be a lot of things. It can be something that is...”
– Louis C.K. sold over 100k copies of his special, making more than $500k.
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“When I’m at work on a story, I never compose paragraphically. I write...”
– oh, Gary Lutz. I love him, or his sentences, and his sad sad recurring themes, so much. But I also want to shake him. Stop putting your sentences in 26-point font, Gary. You deserve to be happy.
“People have to understand that their short-term decision to save a couple bucks...”
– Tom Perrota re: Amazon.
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Nuclear Football →
During their presidencies, both Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan preferred to keep the launch codes in their jacket pocket. On one occasion, Jimmy Carter left nuclear launch codes in his suit when it was sent in for dry cleaning.
November 2011
“That’s the whole secret, is if you hire great people and you don’t mess them up...”
– Woody Allen on directing actors, from Woody Allen: A Documentary, which yes, of course you should watch (via lonelysandwich)
Sunday night I found myself kind of half-crying into my leftover pumpkin pie about the meaninglessness of existence and the fact that I was too short to reach most of the...
“Changing the subject is one of the most difficult arts to master, the key to...”
– Cesar Aira, An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter.
I was at a reading recently where someone cited this. I quickly pulled out my phone when I heard it and typed it into the bottom of my “Thxgiving to do list”. If only I had meditated on that very difficult art a little more...
“My sister says that after we go bowling she wants to meet her sorority sister in the city and then maybe “go out.” And she wants to know if we want to go out with her. I told her we don’t really…do that.”
2 min later.
“Well if your sister doesn’t wanna go bowling with us that’s no big deal I mean she can meet her friend—”
...
“Sam Meek, 27, who was laid off in September when his Connecticut hedge fund...”
– HOME-COOKED MEALS AND BEERS ON THE SOFA?????????! Can you imagine?
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“The theory that the McRib’s elusiveness is a direct result of the vagaries of...”
– A Conspiracy of Hogs: The McRib as Arbitrage
This is the best conspiracy theory of the McRib I have yet to read.
update
Saw the no pain no gain guy on the bridge again. I know this because he passed me on his bike again, and turned around again and said, “Hey! I saw you yesterday!”
“Yeah!” I said, “Hi!”
Can you imagine this happening on the train? Maybe it’s easier to say things as you’re moving by.
He reached his (gloved) hand out, maybe to thumbs up, or maybe to...
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no pain no gain
I made it all the way up the first hill of the Williamsburg Bridge today without getting off my bike and walking it. It’s so hard, which hasn’t stopped being WEIRD to me because people do it every day without comment. People are always riding by me, old people, chubby people, people with one leg (!!). I want to gather everyone together and be like, You know this is an achievement,...
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October 2011
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“Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did...”
– Steve Jobs in a 1995 Wired interview, one of 200 profound, inspirational, insightful quotes in I, Steve: Steve Jobs in His Own Words (via curiositycounts)
Does not having any humanly dots to connect beyond the confines of your own privilege explain the idiocy of most of the people quoted in this...
“Sometimes I leave the house and I’m like, “I know I’m missing something.” And...”
– I’m So Sad I Could Eat a Horse: A Foodie’s Guide to Eating Your Emotions.
Why is the mug of tap water so on point, and so real?
“Making stuff is what got us smiles from our parents and top billing in...”
– I mean, probably.
“There was an exact moment when I decided to quit. I was sitting on a man’s lap...”
– Miranda July, “Shoplifting to Stay Free”
“All I could think about during Drive was how I regret being alive because I will eventually have to die.”
“What? You thought this during the mo vie?”
“Yes! Sitting in the theatre. That’s why I was so upset!”
“You had a crisis during Drive.”
“Yes! Why do you think I had a breakdown when I got home?”
“You had an...
I rode my bike into work for the first time today. I got it on Sunday and the past 3 days have slowly built up the courage to bite the bullet and ride over the Williamsburg Bridge. Halfway up the first hill I was near-death but proud of myself for basically keeping pace with the man in front of me. He seems like he’s ridden a bike before! And he’s going at a pretty modest pace, secure...
September 2011
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“I regard romantic comedies as a subgenre of sci-fi, in which the world operates...”
– Mindy Kaling lays out a brilliant case for how much You’ve Got Mail we’re gonna start watching in this house.
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