October 2008
joni mitchell, “california”
i’d...
“You don’t do costumes, especially not when the line out of the costume store is...”
– Stop Even Caring: How to ruin Halloween (via nickdouglas) teehee.
it's the great pumpkin charlie brown!
If I were to do a filmic montage of my romantic life (or lack thereof— as a chronic self-deprecator i feel morally compelled to say OR LACK THEREOF every time i reference anything about love or sex or dating) I would like to just have some quick edits of me trailing behind various men yelling at me to walk faster or me squeaking HEY WAIT UP, a few steps behind.
one of my tallest and most...
i'm late for a jeans-folding seminar. let's...
Reality Bites is my favorite kind of movie, really the ONLY kind of movie, which is one that is essentially about two people who can’t admit they love each other, and in the last scene, they do.
GOD. That is the best kind of story. This good old fashioned will they / won’t they shit is like my Holy Grail story. If only admitting you were in love was really the central tension of...
The only dream worth having…is to dream that you will live while you’re alive and die only when you’re dead. To love. To be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To never get used to the unspeakable violence and the vulgar disparity of life around you. To seek joy in the saddest places. To pursue beauty to its lair. To never simplify what is complicated or complicate what is simple....
Literary Award
dearoldlove:
I know I’ve won, because I’m the one you call to talk about books.
haha, i’d be lying if i said I’d never thought that.
why the fuck didnt i know abt this!
“What K opponents will never say in public, is that it’s not prostitutes that are...”
– Keeping San Francisco Safe From Prostitutes? (via melissa)
i urge everybody to read this.
The man sitting next to me on BOLT BUS wants to thank everyone i follow who is posting naked pictures to tumblr right now.
In the old hood buying stamps: no cigarettes?! bodega guy is in disbelief. haha i feel victorious!
tesslynch:
It is a horror movie conglomerate. It is a hundred hours long and leaves nothing out. There are also some really intense Top Gun-style moments of homoeroticism. Happy Halloween, almost, again.
TRUE STORY: i saw IT at my first sleepover when I was 7 and I ended up in the hospital in a CAT scan machine because I went running from the flushing toilet and tripped and hit my head on...
Mickey Avalon, “Jane Fonda”
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“While I am denied your presence, give me at least through your words—of...”
– old heloise to abelard, the original gangstas of forbidden love.
the poor man's television.
there should be a word for sitting in front of your computer watching the red squares pop up on tumblr and refreshing your browser.
a few preliminary ideas:
Sad
Web -2.0
Really Sad
drned: Prince “Raspberry Beret”
FACT: I FUCKING...
1 tag
Beck, “Mixed Bizness”
If I were...
O American youth, let us think about freedom
magicmolly:
From Elaine Dundy’s “The Dud Avocado”:
“I want my freedom!” I said, tears stinging my eyes at the word.
“Your freedom? Ah yes, of course. What are you planning to do with it?”
I hesitated. I had to think for a moment. I hadn’t really put it into words before.
“I want to stay out as late as I like and eat whatever I like any time I want to,” I said finally.
“Is that all?”
I...
Sometimes, when I have writer’s block, I blame whatever application I’m using. Maybe if i write in a Stickie Note? It will feel less serious? Maybe in an email draft? A google doc? Scribbled secret notebooks, and wild typewritten pages, for yr own joy ? And then I remember the place where the words flow like manna from heaven. Or vomit from typing fingers. Tumbl that shit,...
“Hey Mea, it’s Dad, I’m on my way to work, but I just wanted to call...”
– Very uncharacteristically eloquent voicemail from my Dad…who has reminded me to vote no less than 12 times. Often with phone calls at 8 am. Thanks Dad!
my own private financial crisis.
I told my mom I was going to threaten Bank of America with taking all of my money away from them and marching down the block to Banco Popular or something, cash in hand. She just laughed.
WHAT! I said.
She tried to keep herself from laughing, “Yeah, I’m sure they’ll really miss your four hundred dollars.”
I pointed out that millionaires RARELY get seven overdraft fines...
men unabashedly embracing their love of cats →
Mr. Scalzi thinks that dogs are for the weaker of spirit, since the dog is, in effect, “your wingman.”
“If you’re feeling insecure about your space in the world, you get a dog because he will always back you up,” he said. “He’s the insecure man’s best friend.”
A man with a cat, on the other hand, “is secure with himself,” he said. “He’s sharing his space with a predator.”
Many women agree...
At what age are you supposed to stop calling up your mom in the middle of the day whenever something goes wrong, and when does it become improper to burst into tears as soon as she picks up the phone?
Please don’t say 24.
Cunts Are Still Running The World →
(via youngmanhattanite)
I knew I was going to reblog this before I even clicked through.
have i just alienated my base?
Halle: haha, that fake john connor tumblr just followed me
me: who's john connor
Halle: man, if the government saw that, they would know you were a t3rr0ri5t
Magnetic Fields, “The Death of Ferdinand de...
“No one has ever once asked me to motorboat. And I’m kind of insulted by...”
– My Roommate
My mom's latest reflections on my blog, via text...
what does <3 mean? Cute pics, cept the rooster beak looks like a shriveled scrotum on your lip.
ah, unconditional love.
5'10" either way
liz: Yeah, but I only date guys who are at least 2 inches taller than me.
me: Yeah, same here.
me: Except, a foot.
excuse me while i listen to this 10 million times. →
d. sedaris on undecided voters →
I look at these people and can’t quite believe that they exist. Are they professional actors? I wonder. Or are they simply laymen who want a lot of attention?
To put them in perspective, I think of being on an airplane. The flight attendant comes down the aisle with her food cart and, eventually, parks it beside my seat. “Can I interest you in the chicken?” she asks. “Or would you prefer the...
crazyonyou:
tylercoates: So my question is: what other Neil Young standouts am I missing out on?
Mkay, let’s see. Besides the usual ones, there are:
A Man Needs A Maid, Cripple Creek Ferry, Winterlong, Burned, Down the Wire, and of course, Tonight’s The Night, which has to be the if not the best, one of the top 3, Neil songs.
And frankly, the entire Mirrorball album that he made...