January 2010
(duh, I'm obsessed)
from my journal, 12.30.99
Well I figured I should take advantage of writing the ‘99 the few more times I can. I mean I guess I could if I really wanted to, huh? But it ain’t the same, man! Anyways, though ~~~~~ Well I just got off the computer (duh I’m obsessed) & me and Sarah kind of had a talk. It was weird. She totally doesn’t trust that me and David aren’t...
December 2009
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brain-food asked: If anything is possible, is it possible for anything to be impossible?
hillbones asked: Do you ever notice a barely-smoked cigarette on the ground, and feel like snatching it up for later even though you don't smoke? I'm looking out my window and see one on the street that is practically brand new. Should I go out and get it before a car runs it over? It has survived the last 45 minutes or so.
davidquigg asked: Three things:
1) Favorite Didion sentence?
2) Favorite first sentence of a book?
3) Favorite Dr. Seuss book?
Bonus question: Based on what you know of her, what would be Didion's favorite first sentence from a Dr. Seuss book?
1) Favorite Didion sentence?
2) Favorite first sentence of a book?
3) Favorite Dr. Seuss book?
Bonus question: Based on what you know of her, what would be Didion's favorite first sentence from a Dr. Seuss book?
mariaguzman asked: What books do you recommend? We seem to like the same style of writing. I recently got Nobody Belongs Here More Than You, Gilead, Home, Eat, Pray, Love. I know you dig Loorie Moore, anyone else worth considering. xo
allisonweiss asked: HOW DOES IT FEEL TO BE THE COOLEST GIRL IN THE TUMBLR OFFICE (BESIDES DAVID)?
“That conversation with the taxi driver suddenly made clear to me the essence of...”
– Kundera, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
I am growing up.
Ha. I loved all of this, mild misogyny aside. I want oh_me and caragh to get married. Caragh, you game? I think he just turned 17.
ohmeohyou:
I’m going to talk about this here because my therapist is out of the town and I’m feeling the need to get this out. So listen up.
This is the story of me growing up.
Tonight I went to the movie with a girl. And for those of you wondering, this is not...
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A man in Times Square just asked me if I lost my family.
No sir I am an adult THANKS!
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ohmeohyou asked: If I started our last Facebook convo, do I wait for her to text me or do I text her, and if so, at what time?
closer1971 asked: Do women ever get that "cold shiver burst" whenever having a wee like men sometimes do?
245am asked: MEAGHAN O'CONNELL. I'm kind of drunk. But I love you AND I love Lorrie Moore. AT THE SAME TIME. In fact, I quoted a line from one of her short stories in my last tumblr entry. COINCIDENCE? But seriously, will you marry me?
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http://meaghano.com/ask →
oh yes we did.
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New tumblr terms of service announced
kthanxbai:
alvareo:
meysell:
iguessthatscool:
sharingtime:
On January 1, 2010 tumblr is going to announce that all soft-lit pictures of men and women in beds with their arms around each other will be BANNED in the new year.
Tumblr estimates that 89% of all pictures posted to their site are such pictures and hope that it will encourage their users to post pictures of, I don’t know, girls...
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“Somewhere Out There,” from An...
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“It’s got something to do with love. With having the discipline to talk out...”
– Dfw on Good Writing via zadie smith. Discipline indeed.
Then I died laughing.
TSA Employee: Do you have any areas that are sensitive to the touch?
Me: Well--
“Remember when you were babysitting me and we didn’t have any hot water and...”
– My cousin Mary Rose
A How To Christmas List for the Sarcastic Child.
— Consistenly lament that the present received isn’t what the box she wrapped it in advertises. This is a classic but, like a trip to the gynecologist, fun for everyone involved nonetheless. If you are a particularly deft practitioner of Christmas guilt-mongering, this should Lead to Mom offering you stemless glassware from 1983. Accept without hesitation. This is Christmas...
Ways to make mom scream:
Mom: give me a pillow!!!
Me: my phone needs one too ya know!!
Mom: (scream)
/lol
Me: mom the first movie I saw was Splash?! That's terrible.
Mom: Mea, you were two weeks old it's not like you'd remember it.
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The thing is—“THE THING IS!”—you can’t make a movie about firing people be about the people firing people. That’s a gimmick, not a storyline. WE WANT TO KNOW ABOUT THE SADDEST PPL. WE WANT THE CRAZY. NO ELLIOT SMITH FOR GEORGE CLOONEY! GIVE US THE INDIGENT! Also that girl’s hairline ain’t right. Sorryyyyyyy!!!
“Well, I feel a lot better about being alone.”
– Mom, after seeing UP IN THE air, which was mediocre “at best.”
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Imagine you are blow-drying your hair in front of a full-length mirror in your underwear, staring into your own eyes while you balance brush and hair dryer, curling under, flipping out, bending over to get the bottom side. You’re almost finished and ready to go put on clothes so you flip up and put down the brush and just as you turn around to make eye contact with yourself, the mirror FALLS...
Old man in coffeeshop: My life motto is the same as my blood type--
Me: HAHAHAHHA.
Old man: hey I like this one, she laughs at my jokes before I finish them.
squid and the whale is THE BEST.
Sophie: Yeah. I mean, it's gross when he turns into the bug, but I love how matter of fact everything is.
Walt: Yeah, it's very Kafkaesque.
Sophie: Cause it's written by Franz Kafka.
Walt: Right. I mean, clearly.
Sophie: So it would have to be--
Walt: Of course.
Halle: how did rumi get so smart? its like insane
Halle: every poem is like, a window into the infinite
me: ha yeah because he is fucking Rumi
me: he wanted to fuck god
Halle: I bet God would reply to your text afterward.
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rackspace is down!
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seems redundant.
me: that would be GENIUS.
david: JEWnius.
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“Who knows what I was up to? Maybe I was up to nothing. Maybe I am just being...”
– Philip Roth, Portnoy’s Complaint.
the raggiest of bags reminded me today just how filthy this hilarious little book is.
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I’d say identifying where people lie on the autism spectrum is my primary defense mechanism.