March 2008
me: is your chess teacher jewish? oh i hope he is!
bobby: i dunno. you can't get everything you want, you know.
me: sure i can. The Secret says there is room enough in the universe for everyone to have what they want.
bobby: The Secret is for spoiled bitches.
like today
whenever “first day of my life” comes on, i think the universe is conspiring against me via my ipod. also, it’s raining. driving all night just to meet you in the morning used to be my idea of pretty much the most romantic scenario possible. then i did it. there was a thrifty van. and a cd entitled “slow burn.” of course the best part was the drive, singing “at...
If Stephen Hawking Were an Angel, Would You...
“She wasn’t doing a thing that I could see, except standing there leaning on the...”
– J.D. Salinger, A Girl I Knew (via scout)
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in which Bobby thinks I'm a philistine
Bobby: What's your favorite song ever? Besides "Umbrella" and "This is Why I'm Hot."
“I looked out the window for other passengers in love with their drivers, but we...”
– from “Something That Needs Nothing,” Miranda July
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How to Become a Writer Or, Have You Earned This... →
lorrie moore is just the cat’s pajamas. i read this over and over and over and over.
easter morning around the firepit
ashes are everywhere...
will: i feel like a pompeii victim
me: ohh!
will: what? too soon?
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“He seemed for a moment to be able to look right into her, know her in a way that...”
– Lorrie Moore, “Community Life”
and Lyotard rolls in his grave
just got a this text from my sister: Booked a flight. Be there thurs 10am leave sat at 7pm. Jfk In my mind, I read I booked a flight. I’ll be there Thursday at ten a.m. and leaving saturday at 7 p.m. Just fucking kidding.
“He achieved great things, but all was overshadowed by his frequent self-photos.”
– jakob lodwick on jakob lodwick.
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snacks halle suggested i bring for bobby's chess...
bouillon cubes
3 boxes of Lucky Charms
a half-eaten jar of peanut butter
“It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or...”
– Oscar Wilde (via bondo)
“Here are enshrined the longings of great hearts…”
– the inscription on Brooklyn Public Library gave me one of those romantic new york moments yesterday on my walk to see miriam. longings of great hearts, what, what!
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Ha.
free clinic guy: uh, sorry, the free test stuff is over. but you can pay to get tested.
my friend: oh, no , thats alright, i'm probably okay anyway.
“Casual sex is the new unrequited love.”
– Miriam, at her finest.
just another revelatory friday morning [whereupon...
Bobby: Meggie is soft!
His Mom: Yes, Meggie is very soft-- like a big stuffed animal!
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sometimes i look through old journals to see what...
I love Bryan Moran Joffe more than anything. I wish I was beautiful. I would give anything just to hug him. I would pay to make out with him. But I would never pay him, just like, God or somebody.
“She was built with curves like the hull of a racing yacht”
– Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises
isn't it funny that sex isn't just some phase that...
that, with any luck, we get to do it for the rest of our lives?
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who says kids don't pay attention to the news?
me: but, you don't really know why eliot spitzer resigned, do you?
bobby: yea, sure i do. because he paid money to have sex.
me: oh...
...
me: do you think your chess teacher really wants me or just really wants me to help out during your chess practice? i hope he really wants me
bobby: well, you could always just pay him a little money...
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what's sad:
when you watch top chef and look at “Scared Stephanie” thinking she is the prototypical best friend type— diffident, overly nice, awkward— then you have coffee with your boss in the morning and she tells you how much she reminds her of you.
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“Sometimes, when I’m playing on the computer, I Rubik’s cube during...”
– Bobby’s nerd alert confession on the way to school this morning [Note the use of Rubik’s cube as a verb].
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Hyperballad (live)
via...
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“We sit in the kitchen exchanging these diabolical outgrowths from overfertile...”
– Henry and June, Anais Nin.
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“Do not worry. You have always written before and you will write again. All you...”
– Hemingway on writer’s block.
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why i probably have (a?) social anxiety disorder...
Practically every time I use a public restroom I imagine how awkward it would be if the door suddenly flew open. this may or may not be related to my catholic upbringing— which may sound like a stretch, but most things are…
And it’s not just like, “Oh, that would be awkward if the old dude behind me in line walked in and saw my vagina” but I actually run through...
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“Well, Hispanics love you. What more do you need to know?”
– Bobby
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things i am 10 years late on but still want to...
Beck
blogging
J Peterman Catalog
Yoga
sexual intercourse
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note to self:
do not leave vibrator under pillow on days when pregnant ukrainian housekeeper comes to make your bed.
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“The weak think they are escaping; the strong think they are pursuing.”
– Robert Frost on literature as escape
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“I do seem to remember saying: “You only talk to me in order to fuck me,...”
– elizabeth goddamn mcbride.
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“You said I was beautiful. I would imagine that you even know enough to tell a...”
– “Inclusions,” Elizabeth McBride
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Actual Men My Friends Have Considered Dating...
a thumbsucker
a cult member
a female to male transsexual