January 2009
“You can’t rip the skin off the snake. The snake must moult the skin.”
– Ram Dass, Be Here Now.
“You just go on your nerve. If someone’s chasing you down the street with a knife...”
– good ol’ frank o’hara, in his manifesto on Personism, that I found on Jen Bekman’s lovely little blog of the same name.
Billy Bragg — Jeane (Smiths cover) (via tesslynch)
crazyonyou:
I also just invented Shamwaahs: tiny Shamwows you wear on your cheeks to absorb your tears on Valentine’s Day. Can also be attached to the bottom of your thick plastic glasses, you nerd.
There is a reason why I am friends with Halle. This is not the reason, but a reason.
Bon mot?
ninefruits:
Earlier this morning I was telling Meaghan O how fond I am of her use of the term “cunt”. She uses it with a carefree abandon that makes me rather jealous.
HA. This could be the nicest thing anyone’s ever said about me.
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“I longed for a feeling again, a particular one: the one of approaching a room...”
– Lorrie Moore
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crazyonyou:
i love how New Yorkers pronounce Florida as Flauhr-duh, instead of the Midwestern Floor-duh.
Me too! Southerners say it Floor-iduh as well. It seems odd that people from a much better place lend such a…grandiosity (Flaaaahrida) to such a… crappy ass state. THERE I SAID IT!
Flaaaahrida, it’s like when they say it they are waving their fake nails in the air and...
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I woke up today in sort of a sad mood, but it was before I had had any real thoughts about anything, so I laid in bed trying to pinpoint what it was.
Then I remembered my dream. And I know you aren’t supposed to talk about your dreams because no one cares, but GUYS.
I was performing in a play— god knows why— I remember I was playing Red Riding Hood—when my friend KELSEY...
“You should force him to love you. Dudes love that.”
– Sharingtime with some romantic advice that I can finally really commit to.
When I went into the deli for the 2nd time today, the deli guy just sat in his folding chair behind the counter, cocked his head up at me and said, “Want more?”
“Yep!” I said and laughed, and he poured me a coffee. We have reached quite an understanding, he and I.
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things i don't do very well, part 2 in an...
My mom is a Physical Therapist.
My dad is a Federal Air Marshall.
I think my lack of a career must drive them crazy. Especially when they think of all the money they spent on tuition. Whoops!
The other night my dad called me with a few job suggestions:
The State Department (I don’t even know what that means!)
The UN (in general, I guess)
The Peace Corps (aren’t your parents...
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things i can't do very well.
haunted:
But what I mean to say is, sticky notes and writer’s block and New York and red pen, they all add up to something; and if you’re not making words now, they must be collecting, collecting somewhere until you have a complete passage to write out.
Thank you. I like to believe that! I remember one morning, while shuffling around the coffee pot in our pajamas, Bobby’s dad asked me...
American Analog Set, “Know By Heart”...
ha! you'd think so, wouldn't you?
I love New York because I got an email last night asking me if a certain two people were dating ironically.
me: god the Latest Experiments show that women not only get turned on by straight sex, lesbo sex, anybody sex...they also get turned on by MONKEYS FUCKING
him: lol what experiments?
me: i just mean my own personal observations...
me: just kidddddding there's an article about it in the NYT.
things i can't do very well.
“I’ve tried to overcome not having orderly spaces by substituting compulsion for discipline, so that when something is urgently there, urgently seen or understood, or the metaphor was powerful enough, then I would move everything aside and write for sustained periods of time.”
—Daily Routines: Toni Morrison, via haunted
I keep writing the word DISCIPLINE is big letters, everywhere. I wrote one...
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Once, at the beginning of our second date (there was so much hope!), a guy told me he never wanted to see me again (okay, in so many words; in effect). We had met in Williamsburg, on Grand St., and, on our first date, discussed all the places we liked to hang out in the neighborhood. He told me he was “freaked out,” hah, which is either a big lie or someone people rarely admit to;...
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Joni Mitchell, “Little Green”
Joni...
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jennabee:
C.O. ft. Gill Welch - Lua
Holy...
“Do not dismiss a book until you have written one, and do not dismiss a movie...”
– dave eggers.
“Well, remember this, pussy latte: we’re not involved in a ‘relationship’, you...”
– Tom Robbins
(via align, unicornology, fletter)
Because, at the end of the day, aren’t we all just looking for our pussy latte?
this is how i defend myself when i feel attacked.
me: i’m like whoa, sorry i have a cool bike and friends.
“I bought you a vowell. Err, that’s a good typo, so I’ll leave it. I...”
– omg best email ever.
You know what I love?
I love that in the OSX email app thingy italics is called oblique. Soo much sexier. Oblique is such, such, SUUUUCH a good word.
Allen Ginsberg reading “America” [via...
