June 2009
"I NEVER DO THIS!!!!"
girls: sleeping with boys on the first night they meet them.
boys: asking girls out via email.
OR MAYBE THIS IS JUST MY EXPERIENCE.
“All I ever did to that apartment was hang fifty yards of yellow theatrical silk...”
– Joan Didion, Goodbye To All That
“I feared that Sarah was one of those women who, instead of laughing, said,...”
– Lorrie Moore has a story in The New Yorker and it is called “Childcare.”
I like this a lot, but I really hate reading her in The New Yorker, I want to yell, Hey! get out of there! Put this in a book addressed specifically to me, please, not curling around insulting cartoons that capture...
“For me the idea of writing not for publication is a little like drinking alone....”
– Susan Orlean in Jon Meacham’s Author’s Roundtable in Newsweek.
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oh yeah, before I forget,
So on the train home from Ikea today I was sitting there minding my own beeswax reading ma book, listening to the dirty projectors or was it the indigo girls, and mourning the loss of the boy with whom, in the course of 3 stops on the queensbound G train, i had fallen swiftly and perfectly in love.
He looked at me and I looked back. He looked at the seat next to me. It was empty. I gripped my...
"Why Have No Proper Shoes Been Distributed to...
In 1921 Eliot left the manuscript of The Waste Land with Pound, and Pound went through it with his red pencil. He thought it was a masterpiece. And why should its author not go on writing such masterpieces? Well, he was working as a clerk in Lloyd’s Bank in London and didn’t have the time. Pound decided to free him. He organized a subscription plan called “Bel Esprit.”...
tmyk
me: what does wonkette mean anyway
halle: like, a political wonk, or know-it-all, but with an -ette because having a pussy means everything has to be diminutive
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this just happened.
I went to my deli to get 20 dollars out and buy a coffee to get change to do laundry.
As I approached the ATM, Deli Man said, “Sorry Mami, the atm is down.” I said, “Where should I go?” He told me the laundromat or the other deli.
I went to the laundromat. How funny, I thought, I could have just gotten money here.
The atm was down there, too.
Are you kidding...
“Since the release of early Moldy Peaches recordings she has been hearing people...”
– Kimya Dawson’s website bio. I like her.
This one's for my ladies.
Please fellow pagina’d sisteren, tell me for the love of all things holy that I am not the only one whose messenger back sometimes rubs against her hip in just the right way, so that when I’m wearing a dress my underwear get pulled down an inch every time I take a step, leaving me standing on street corners squeezing my thighs together so that my blue polka dot underwear doesn’t...
My new glasses just fell into my soup.
petervidani:
UGH. This is the worst. My brand new glasses just fell into a piping hot bowl of soup when I was leaning over to eat. This is awful. And now I’m eating my glasses. This is the worst. This prescription tastes incredibly bad. GREAT.
HA.
I was going back in my old Likes to make sure nothing too embarassing was there. And then I found this, The Moment I Realized Peter Was Cool.
...
“I found my roommate, Dave, on craigsist…I know, I know, sketch but I was in FL...”
– Laurenoh, Thanks for calling Bally Total Shitness err I mean Fitness
My sister’s spelling errors and flagrant use of “texting language” is mildly offensive. But also: hilarious and completely sincere.
http://www.tumblr.com/liked/by/meaghano →
It’s just good Internet, people.
Please disregard my blatant Internet crushes and pictures of naked women.
“Whenever the focus falls back on David—sometimes talking straight to the...”
– this is the most innaccurate sentence on the Internet right now. From the AV Club’s review of Whatever Works.
When Woody Allen talks to the camera in 1977, okay, wow, look at that! First of all, it was new then. Second of all, it was adorable, pre-incestual, pre-ScarJo Woody Allen. We would...
whatever works (which is to say NOT MUCH)
If you have any grasp of…language and/or reality and/or human interaction, you will find yourself watching this movie with the overwhelming emotion being flabberghasted. As in, how could a thinking man make characters do and say these things. STRING THEORY, we get it. But still.
Ya know that feeling in Health class you got when some of your classmates— boys, it was always the...
Psst: everyone dies alone.
My sister joined Tumblr and, 3 posts in, has already used the phrase “poop attack”.
which one of us is dating her crew coach and which...
Lindsay: We went to the Warhol museum and you're supposed to do it from top floor to bottom. So first he bought my ticket and then we took the elevator up to the sixth floor and stepped out into the gallery and proceeded to stand there for about 45 minutes talking
Me: Whoa. That sounds like a Woody Allen movie!
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“I could take the Harlem night
and wrap around you,
Take the neon lights and...”
– Langston Hughes, “Juke Box Love Song”
I sent this poem to a boy once. I love every word of it. I sent him a lot of poems, actually. In facebook messages! He didn’t really seem to care! Ha!
this actually happened.
Bank of America Employye #1: Hey, Rob, want me to take your picture to put on your debit card?
B of A Employee #2: Hah! I don't have a Bank of America account!
50 most looked-up words on NYTimes.com →
I spent last night looking all of these up in the dictionary just to make sure my bases were covered. You may laugh, but who’s the one walking around without shibboleths integrated into their working vocabulary?
via wordjournal, bmichael:
sui generis
solipsistic
louche
laconic
saturnine
antediluvian
epistemological
shibboleths
penury
sumptuary
schadenfreude
peripatetic
...
copycats:
Buckets of Rain - Neko Case originally...
Long Wind
nightmarebrunette:
Here are some people who are pretty popular on tumblr, from what I can tell, and who have earned it. Maybe it is irritating that you keep coming across their text or their pictures over and over again. Maybe they’re just on to something:
Meaghano: She’s funny, she’s thoughtful, and we’re in the midst of what I like to think of as a secret affair. I send her the particularly...
the truth hurts...our eyes.
Meaghan: methinks the gentleman doth have a soulpatch
Halle: he actually traded his soul for that patch, that's why they call it that
“I love the weekends, they are that time when the employed and the unemployed are...”
– Choire Sicha
“Last year, we decided to move during June gloom. The year before, in 2007, we...”
– Tess Lynch, Blame It On The Rain
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“The soul has that measureless pride which consists in never acknowledging any...”
– Walt Whitman, “Am I Right, Ladies?”