September 2009
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“i have a blog on my website, though it is dull and not frequently updated....”
– Jonathan Ames’ response to my random email demanding he join Tumblr.
STAY TUNED.
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“HarperCollins Publishers announced Monday that 24-year-old Islip, NY resident...”
– Man’s Facebook Status Given Book Deal | The Onion - America’s Finest News Source (via kmaverick)
how we fight at tumblr.
me: You could make the chat post cooler. I always see a lot of opportunities with chat posts.
peter: it's about the CONTENT, don't you know that?
me: I know that (under breath) I know that but I'm not so sure YOU do.
peter: what did you just fucking say to me?
me: NOTHING!
“How did this happen? Well, I followed a pretty typical trajectory after college,...”
– Lynsey G., “THE CONFLICTED EXISTENCE OF A FEMALE PORN WRITER.”
a new column in (believe it!) McSweeney’s.
!!!
“I described my ideal man to my therapist the other day and she said, “It sounds...”
– been thinking…: Sitting in a Mission Bay Cafe
cosmopsis:
Patsy Cline - Blue Moon of Kentucky
...
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“Everything ok? You haven’t blogged since Fri????”
– text from my Mom.
Peter: How do you let your headphones get so TANGLED like that?
Me: Low self-esteem.
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“Because there’s no prize money, no award even, little in the way of kudos or...”
– Benjamin Blaine from shootingpeople.org on the Tumblr Film Festival.
WHEEE.
PS WHAT ARE TECH SPECS?
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““It was very bad. One midnight I went out and dropped four hundred...”
– Marilynne Robinson, Home
tumblr.com/films, people.
bonerparty:
i plan to enter my seven-hour docudrama about meaghan-o’s butt.
So, sort of like Roots, but instead of a dramatization of author Alex Haley’s family line from ancestor Kunta Kinte’s enslavement to his descendents’ liberation, it’s, uh, it’s my ass.
Ok. That’s fair. I’d pay to see that.
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“Girl, I’m gonna Meaghano you until [tl;dr]”
– Blogger Pick-up Lines (via 6h057)
Ha. Well, there you have it.
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It was one of those dinners where you don’t know the adults who are taking you out too well, but you know to drink enough because at some point they will call you out for spending too much time on your phone and ARE YOU BORED and NO OF COURSE NOT and HAVE ANOTHER BEER becomes MY GOD ARE YOU TRYING TO KILL ME YOU OLD PEOPLE?
So by the end she is all, MEAGHAN I didn’t get to TALK to you...
Ps
The gender studies major in me feels compelled to disavow the boys vs men dichotomy espoused in that article.
I had to stop and sit on the steps in union square and jump on my phone to tell you this.
Kthx.
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“In academia, where I spend my working days, most male professors and students...”
– a modern love column on beta males WOULD reference #swooning.
to be fair, i agree with her.
WHICH WILL BE MY DOWNFALL, AGAIN AND AGAIN.
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peter: i watched your favorite movie last night.
me: Annie Hall?
peter: No. Juno.
me: fuck you.
Would you guys believe me if I told you a bird just shat down my cleavage?
And yes the deli man thought it was hilarious and pretended to charge me 10 dollars for the napkin.
newsweek:
Newsweek approves of this book. Although it secretly suspects Gilead might be better. And it has a special place inside its heart for Housekeeping.
Don’t make me fight you, Newsweek.
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“His crime was his punishment, which had to mean he wasn’t such a villain...”
– Marilynne Robinson, Home.
This line took me a minute, but then!
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well, damn.
me: ohmygod did you DYE your EYEBROWS?
sis: yeah, i have to! if i don't, my eyebrows are naturally sort of...gray... Like yours!
me: yeah, that's-- that's how i knew.
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Earth Wind & Fire, “September”
...
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“you and I are not snobs. We can never be born enough. We are human beings;for...”
– ee cummings, introduction.
this is me and erica’s song!
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educating the mind and heart.
I went back to my alma mater yesterday for the first time in two years. I say that like Notre Dame is a parent or close friend who I have neglected for far too long, ‘Two years!’ as if i should feel guilty. And that is how it feels, for better or worse (for better or worse! oh god, this language, I know).
It does feel like a family, and I know they strive for that, they peddle it (and...
“Not that I am painting a picture of some kind of dystopia where nobody will ever...”
– a little threadjack on Bitch, please. (Emily Magazine) (via melissa)
OKAY I’LL BITE.
A lot of this commentary, I think it is fair to say, is rooted in the idea that there is not room enough in the world— or in the ‘discourse’ or ‘culture’ or the zeitgeist or the...
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Buckcherry, “Crazy Bitch”
Because...
“My goal? To generate an income through the use of Google Adsense. If such a...”
– Tumblr Projects application.
Great!
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