September 2009
Old Crow Medicine Show, “Wagon Wheel”
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MY NAME IS PAUL AND I AM 19 AND I LIVE IN SONORA...
paulstraw:
Did I do this right?
HA.
Well, considering you tagged this #swoon, I’d say you are well on your way. To what I am not sure.
August 2009
““Did you know that Alexander the Great left all his money to...”
– Lorrie Moore, A Gate at the Stairs
I love her for many reasons, but the one that maybe gives me the most delight is her amazing amazing corny jokes.
you're welcome, world.
josh: I mean, do you realize when you are thinking something crazy, can you tell it's just PMS?
me: Well, i mean, it made sense to me, I thought maybe he drank too many red bulls and his heart exploded and he died THAT COULD HAPPEN RED BULL IS DANGEROUS.
josh: Wow I thought I was doing pretty well on my path to understanding women but this is making me rethink everything.
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60ish LITERARY EUPHEMISMS FOR MASTURBATION →
(via frakintosh)
Happy Sunday, everybody.
Even though I am a lady and thusly have yet to ascertain what masturb8ing is exactly, these are my personal favorites:
1. Blurbing yourself
2. Burying the lede
16. Giving your narrative a Faustian theme
17. Having a strong opinion in your writing workshop about the power of symbolism
32. Paying extra for the hardcover
40. Proofreading the galleys
...
“I need to stop saying, “I’m saving it for the screenplay.”
– Things I Don’t Understand And Definitely Am Not Going To Talk About
“Great writers usually present us with mysteries, but the mystery Lorrie Moore...”
– Lethem reviews lorrie moore in the new york times book review and ohmygod i think i’m gonna come. there are not enough exclamation points in the worlddddddddd.
nightmarebrunette:
John Vanderslice — Too Much...
WatchPeter made this video four years ago before I even knew what the Internet was, when he was what? 12 years old? And wow. I love Peter.
“…This contest was set up by The Man…Kill me now. Tumblr smells like...”
– ::UN::: Sharks vs Cats
lolz
I like to write captions in Dad humor.
staff:
Whoa! I don’t know much about sports but I know that the Knicks on Tumblr is a total homerun!
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Marc: So is the Sharks vs. Cats Tumblarity based on the reblogs and Likes or is it based on the Tumblarity of the people who join them?
Me: Oh, I think it's based on Reblogs and Likes... I think they have their own Tumblarity--
Josh: Marc! IT'S BASED ON HOW AWESOME THE ANIMAL IS.
“What I already love about this conversation — because it’s happening, it’s...”
– Melissa, on our proposed SXSW panel, “Professionally Naked: What Women Gain From Exposing Ourselves Online”.
This is a topic I have, BELIEVE IT OR NOT, given much thought to: Transparency.
I think it’s the future guys. Buck/le up.
Also, Melissa’s piece on the panel contains what...
“Moore represents the voices of smart, sad, and slightly neurotic women on a...”
– aja gold (via cosmopsis)
ha. check, check AND check.
Also, this book is about an “apathetic Midwestern college student who takes a job as a nanny.”
ALSO, COME ON ASHLEY I NEED THAT BOOK.
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my thought process on the way to work this...
Who are these people sitting outside of a cafe at 9:30am?
Don’t these people have JOBS?! DON’T THEY HAVE TO WORK? (note: it has taken me about one month to go from being that person to cursing that person).
Like YOU? What does THIS GUY even DO? is he a PROFESSIONAL CROISSANT-EATER? Does he eat croissants professionally?
Oh. Hm! I see. Daniel Rossden, the lead singer of Grizzly...
“I was looking for a place that would challenge me academically, but I also...”
– So proud of my alma mater, GQ’s 15th Douchiest College.
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Peter, we need to talk.
Peter: What's that, um, period medicine?
me: Midol?
Peter: Yeah. I heard if you're a boy and you take that, you can get pregnant.
what made me cry at work today. →
via my sister, lauren
as you’ll see, tl;dr runs in our family. I am starting to think maybe it is a reaction to all of the things we never really learned how to say in person— how we are just now learning to give each other a sidehug when we find ourselves in the same city; how I can reblog this and tell you it made me cry and is making me cry now, but I can never tell her I love her...
“I’m in the business of effing the ineffable.”
– alan watts.
me: did you read lauren's blog today?
mom: I read that thing about the... twat cone? what was it?
me: twat waffle, mom. TWAT. WAFFLE.
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petervidani:
The Beatles - I’ve Just Seen A...
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“And so I started thinking about how maybe everything I ever hated about Holden...”
– Matt Langer on you-know-what.
A+++
“One of my favorite quotes is “To thine own self be true.” — I...”
– letter from my mom when i went away to college. hah :)
nevercapitalize:
alpha bravo charlie delta echo foxtrot golf hotel india juliet kilo lima mike november oscar papa quebec romeo sierra tango uniform victor whiskey xray yankee zulu
I come from a military family and when we were little all of the adults would use this alphabet to spell out things they didn’t want the kids to understand.
My favorite was the word for ice cream: “India...
dear 19 year olds,
do not buy jorts from express in 2005 and wait four years to pay the bill.
you will pay much more than you paid for those shorts, which, not unlike your credit history, will be long since obliterated.
xo,
M
ps: You guys are my favorite.
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halp.
Jacob gave me this theme awhile back and it used to be called Ribbons and I wouldn’t let him make it public but OKAY Jacob, I think I am ready.
He said that as part of my duty, or as my last privilege, rather, I get to name this theme.
After pretty seriously considering wanting to call it meaghano (meganho?), I realized I would feel a little bit like an asshole.
so I thought maybe...
“still that long
curling highway made me think
of my leaping heart and then of...”
– grace paley, from fidelity
Grace Paley is one of those women writers who i might say, “yeah, she’s my ho girl woman {god this is hard},” about if someone picked her up in the bookstore; whose A+ Cool Attitude sort of speaks to me and bewitches me and whose voice I would just...
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today i,
was getting a pedicure and no, I cannot really even fucking begin to tell you how uncomfortable the very word “pedicure” makes me- I don’t think I’ve ever sat in that chair willingly, outside of weddings and other social obligations and okay, okay i will stop disavowing. I am really just trying to figure out what the fuck kind of things people do when they have money to...
“twat waffle”
– (via laurenoh)
Ladies and gentlemen, my twenty-three-year-old sister.
“The fact that you can now sustain the fun of writing only by confronting the...”
– from “The Nature of the Fun” by david foster wallace, and it is better in context, so go read it.
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