December 2009
confession
when I have something i need to write, I always take a bath, no matter the hour, then get completely ready as if to go out on a date with my brain. Put on some melodramatic music that makes me feel like I just killed a man or filed for divorce. Shake from the latte. Do anything else I possibly can. Write anything else I possibly can. Make sure my makeup looks good in the mirror. Make sure my...
November 2009
Your Annual Guide To Holiday Romance →
(via johncarney)
My Annual Guide to Holiday Romance:
1. Avoid married men who make out with girls in downtown drinking establishments they found in their Nearby Favorites list :D
Philip Glass, “Opening”
“all this drama makes me even more excited to read it. not sure if I can wait to...”
– boomkitty re: more on Eating Animals.
SEE! JUST SOLD A BOOK.
more on Eating Animals.
kangaroodent:
http://thesecondpass.com/?p=3589
is a good assessment of why there’s not much to like about this particular treatise. For someone who purports to be showing us that the eating of animals is morally wrong (and obviously so), he shows a troubling tendency to engage in unclear argument. Anyone who writes “’Speechlessness / Influence / Speechlessness / Influence’ densely repeated for...
It has been brought to my attention that I have...
VDUBS, YOU ARE IN.
The rest: you are under consideration.
this is my running list of women writers who...
joan didion
marilynne robinson
alice munro
mary gaitskill
grace paley
anais nin
Who else?
(I don’t think Lorrie Moore is a badass, but that is certainly up for debate. I’m not even sure what I mean, but I just don’t think BADASS when I think of her.).
Runners up include: Carson McCullers, Dorothy Parker
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“The Germans must have a term for it. Doppelgedanken, perhaps: the sensation,...”
– The New York Times reviews the new Alice Munro. (via thebronzemedal)
That is basically the nicest thing you could ever say. DAYUMN. Alice Munro defines badass. unnnngh. That’s a damn fine review, too. “She’s our Munro”! Damn right she is. Fuck Chekhov.
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William S. Burroughs: Thanksgiving Prayer (via...
“The only really good piece of advice I have for my students is, ‘Write something...”
– lorrie moore
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crazy old ppl at the diner with thick bklyn...
old man: You hafta go to the men's room? or the women's room i should say since i've seen you come outta there once or twice.
other old man: Yeah I use the men's room or the women's room, either/or, but if I come out of the women's room I come out with a limp wrist.
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what hath jonathan safran foer wrought?
mom: and those poor cows they hardly have a life. they don't get to do anything, they don't get to... have sex!
me: WHAT? Cows don't like, have sex for pleasure.
mom: Tell that to a cow!
few things
Mom says she likes ‘that sound on your phone.’ “What sounds?” “Your alarm. The churchbells. It’s nice.” I told her I like to keep my negative connotations negatively connotated.
I saw a woman on the train platform at Union Sqare eating a banana like an ear of corn. What the fuck?
Do you ever just want to swing a baseball bat? At people? Sort of just...
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“I searched for “blog” today on the Internet and Tumblr didn’t...”
– Mom
Genius™: Just sign up over there with the guy in the red T-shirt.
*waves hand over a sea of guys in red t-shirts*
Me: Oh yeah! Of course! The pale, skinny guy in the red t-shirt!
Genius™: Yep! Thanks!
Mom: He didn't get your joke.
Me: I know. I fucking hate this place.
Mom: Don't say "F".
me: FUUUUUUUUCK THIS PLAAAAAAAAAACE.
Sea of Men in Red T-shirts: *blink*
“Why do we Tumbl? In the end, we use Tumblr not because it’s a great way to...”
– Newsweek: Why We Tumbl
“And it takes a confident, exceptional man, to be on board when you write about...”
– diana vilibert: A Love Story
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“We get it: It’s not just your story, but through its striving to explore...”
– New ‘Noveller’ Allows People To Post Novels They Write During Course of Their Day. (thx sam :)
copycats:
Bring It On Home to Me - Colin Meloy...
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hi it is me, your single new york friend from a...
me: SO IS HE CUTE?
friend with new baby: he is attached to my boob all the time.
me: MEN, AM I RIGHT?
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“She says Write whereas I say Live. The trouble is I do not know how to live...”
– Edna O’Brien
“I can describe him in moonlight, relieved not to have to imagine the moonlight,...”
– Harold Brodkey.
BOOM. Remember, he wrote that story “Innocence” with the ‘seeing her was like seeing Marxism die’ bit? I like him his writing! See!
“A book, a poem, a play— they start as fantasms but they end up as things,...”
– Arthur Miller in Who’s Writing This?
nickdouglas:
“Is there a bifurcation of self?- is there, can there be, a self that exists outside of the writing? Can you really put yourself, your truth, into something and then say it isn’t you? And why do we ask that of them?”
— Meaghan O’Connell
Yes. Because the present me is horribly different from the past me (which is why I’m glad I torched my old blogs and retain the barest...
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Further reflections:
melissa: i imagine what they will think of me when i they see me, three days into a writing binge, with unwashed hair, a torn slip, eyeliner still clinging to my cheeks, and asking them to go get me coffee -- WHAT DO THEY SAY?
meaghan: MILK NO SUGAR!
melissa: heavy cream if they've got it, exactly! MARRY ME MEAGHANO
meaghan: we would run an amazing household
Saturday thoughts.
Maybe a good way to know if you love a man is to try to imagine living on a farm and having babies with him Do you die of laughter? Rethink.
