February 2010
coming & crying
nudawn:
i’ve had a really strong opinion of this book since i first heard about it. i think its amazing and ballsy for meaghan to do this and i’m sure its going to be great so i didnt think it was necessary to say anything that might appear i felt otherwise.
however being someone who has cried from the intensity of an orgasm before, and who speaks about the need to be open and vulnerable in...
Hah.
mom: So I have to ask, what the heck happened with JD Salinger?
me: He's dead, Mom.
mom: Oh, see, you kept talking about him but you never actually said that.
me: I, I figured most people knew.
mom: Well, most people probably did.
hahahahahhahaha
mom: So I have to ask, what the heck happened with JD Salinger?
me: He's dead, Mom.
mom: Oh, see, you kept talking about him but you never actually said that.
me: I, I figured most people knew.
mom: Well, most people probably did.
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coming & crying with LOU!
I really love Part 4 in our Kickstarter Series of Interviews With the Invariably Awesome People Contributing Writing or Photography to Coming and Crying. I gchatted the night away with Lou Noble, fellow Tumblr & swoonworthy photog, about internetting, Making Stuff, and, erm, nudity:
meaghan: What about n00dz? I know you have a sort of complicated view of that. You don’t want to take...
January 2010
My entry into Kelsey’s contest at flavorwire is a story I have been saving for years now:
For my first Valentine’s Day in New York I went with my best friend– that friend, you know, the one you are glued to hourly the first few years– to a Altoids-sponsored reading feat. various writers and comedians talking about bed-wetting and lots of… other things that felt the same as bedwetting....
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“What musicians are on Tumblr?”
– text I just got from David.
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I am about to crash harder than I've crashed since...
meganwest:
After months and months of planning and worrying and working and - I can’t think of the right verbs. Months of everything. After months of my life spent getting the Academy to talk about social media in not just a relevant way but a way that pushes at the music industry I am going to sleep the sleep of the accomplished.
We don’t often get to have a voice, those of us who work behind...
meaghano talks to katie west about the book...
meaghan: That's why it's funny when people make this big thing about talking about sex, about it being so taboo, and i just want to say, THAT IS WHY WE ARE HERE. THIS IS THE DRIVING FORCE OF LIFE. The question isn't how can we talk about it so openly, it's how can other people not?!
katiewest: it's the original SIN, Meaghan. we're going to HELL. and we're LADIES.
internetting.
Well you guys are wanting me to post about something other than how much boys on tumblr love me— which is a funny phenomenon by the way, when you think about it. I have always written to you about the things that happen to me, the ridiculous, hilarious, sad things that make no sense, and of all of them, what is funnier than people who don’t know me declaring their love for me on the...
ryansimmons asked: Holy moly, it's a three-parter! 1) Are you single? 2) Is it creepy if someone quasi-asks you out knowing nothing about you really but what you write on your blog? 3) Would you dare to actually maybe get coffee with that person (namely me)
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“And for decades I’ve wondered what exactly happened to Salinger to drive him...”
– dave eggers on j.d. salinger in the new yorker*
oh i’ll BET you do.
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“Writing for the Internet is one thing that has had a huge impact on the...”
– jami attenberg in the chicago tribune, on her new novel, the melting season.
“wow grammy invites are not hard to get nowadays”
– lol.com
fek:
AND WHAT ORDER IS THIS IN?
Oh yeah, by the way: I’m doing this.
IN ORDER OF DICK SIZE.
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matthewgallaway:
Yall, rlly happy to participate but feel kinda sad that my name was changed to ‘more.’
—Zephyr more
‘Join the Tumblr community for an open bar reception and live performance to celebrate writing, reading, and the art of the second draft. Writers from the popular blogging platform will share their work, make you laugh, and save the Internet from their waning attention spans....
Florence & The Machine, Addicted to Love
hee....
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"I think it's that sometimes i willingly go into...
nowihaveablog:
I highly recommend that you read this interview between Meaghan O’Connell and Katie West.
Three reasons:
1. This book looks amazing. I’m definitely going to buy it. I plan to spend $30, you should spend more.
2. Meaghan capitalized the word “know” to add depth beyond the standard definition. I love it when people do that. I’ve been doing it since I was a wee lad.
3. The...
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interview w. a coming & crying contrib: katie... →
meaghan: Ha. Do you ever feel like, “Okay. Here goes. I am choosing my art over this relationship.” Sometimes when i write about someone part of me feels like i am putting the nail in the coffin. Like ol’ Joan Didion said, ‘Writers are always selling somebody out.’ How do you work through that in your head? katiewest: Ah, yes, i often feel like i’m selling the people i write about out. i’ll try to...
“…you’re going to start getting closer and closer - that is, if you want to, and...”
– J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye (via sometimesagreatnotion)
Selling Intimacy
kickstarter:
“What you can sell — what you better be able to sell — is intimacy. It’s interactions in public. Souvenirs. Limited things of value. Experiences. Memories. People will pay for those things, IF: your art is actually great and if you make it possible for them to buy them.”
— Seth Godin in an interview with Derek Sivers
I spent the past week at Midem, a music conference in Cannes,...
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“You go to a dance where a new pop song is playing, and for the rest of your life...”
– Louis Menand on The Catcher in the Rye for The New Yorker.
There will be much more to come online and in next... →
woot.
“You take a look around your college campus, and the world, and politics, and one...”
– jd salinger (via FEK)
foster tagged this ‘why i write’ and yes, yes, yes; me too, me too.
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I'm beginning to wonder
charmingortedious:
if Meaghano ever ponders, “MAYBE EVERYTHING I POST IS A LITTLE BIT SELF OBSESSED?”
She’s a good writer and I was having fun following her until I realized I just couldn’t take the “omg meaghano you’re like SO KEWL and perfectly capture everything I wanted to be when I was in 6th grade” posts she reblogged adding shit like, “no, YOU’RE the kewl one, whoever.”
We all like to...
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“I’d had a couple of interviews earlier that day and hadn’t had the...”
– hahahhaa I really shouldn’t make fun of boys on my twitter feed when I’ve just given them my business card.
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My Favorite Suggested Titles for the Tumblr...
Crying and Blogging
AS I CUDDLED THE PORCUPINE, HE SAID I HAD NONE TO BLAME BUT ME
Tumblrs Like That Are the Only Tumblrs Here.
Mumblr (ed: truthy!)
For People Who Dabble In Self Loathing
Subway Conversations with Cute Hipsters Reading Baudelaire.
The Tumblr Reading Series Presented By Toyota Scion and Miracle Whip
datn asked: Could you change "Melissa and I's" to "Melissa's and my"? I would be very grateful. Thanks :)
bijan:
Maybe a service like Kickstarter could add a way for mentors to donate “time” as well as money (both are extremely valuable).
I love this idea. I need this idea. I want to write a pretty long post about why this idea is important.
Melissa and I’s MELISSA’S AND MY (really? that sounds weird. but i guess it’s correct)— AHEM, OUR Kickstarter project, if you have...
if david karp asked you out, where would you go...
(via fuckyeahdavidkarp)
hahahahhahahahhahahaaaaaaaaaaaa
“Your title does not bother me at all! If you had spelled it with a...”
– Jen on Coming and Crying.
haha, never! never!
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“David loved being a writer, not so that he could dazzle us with the glorious...”
– david foster wallace’s sister, here.
I urge you to download the pdf and read the whole thing. i did at 3 in the morning in bed on my iphone after spending four hours doing battle with one paragraph that i am still unhappy with and it made me feel much better about life, human beings, et al.
a dramedy via gchat.
him: MEAGHAN.
me: What?
him: Nothing I just miss you.
me: You do not.
him: Okay fine I don't. I'm just feeling super feelingsy today.
meaghanolikesboys:
Some people have habit’s they never grow out of. Meaghan is one of those people.
Well, someone had to say it.
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from my 6th grade journal
As of today I cannot go anywhere, including Youth Group, Choir, and Gymnastics. My mom is pissing me off! I almost said crap in front of her (I was talking about the school lunch). Now I have to stay in my room today and tomorrow (bitch). Tomorrow’s SATURDAY! UH!
At Youth Group on Wednesday, Rebecca invited this guy from her homeroom to come with us. He came 2 her house (while I wuz...
52books:
#3: The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
Preface:
This book made me cry. A lot. In the following places: the work commute, the lunch break, the B63 bus, McDonald’s (leave me alone), and my apartment. If you’re looking for a solid session of weeping, this is the story for you.
Thoughts:
Over the last few months, I had heard over and over again that if you are looking to read...
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“As a follow up to the panel program, on GRAMMY Sunday, leaders of a number of...”
– tumblr’s goin to the grammy’s— kinda cool, right?