April 2010
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March 2010
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“Joe Heller and I have always been on the same wavelength editorially, and the...”
– Robert Gottlieb (AKA BOB) in the Paris Review Interviews.
I was reading this in bed last night while Kelsey was working on a deadline and I was like OH MY GOD and she kinda tried to ignore me and keep writing because I yell out a lot while she is on deadline but I sat up and peeked through the...
Chad for a bright wall in a dark room.: Greenberg... →
Thank you! I AGREE. And I’m willing to fight about it.
Thankfully, though, there’s a girl named Florence, his brother’s personal assistant. She gets Roger out of his own head, at least for a spell. And even though he fights his way back there with all the intensity of a helpless, flailing child - for he truly knows no other way - some small part of him seems to realize that she just might...
purplewhales:
I have got to say the founder of tumblr looks like he belongs on tumblr you know? Well of course he does, he IS the founder after all but… If I saw him in a crowd of people I’d be like, ‘I bet he uses tumblr…’. Do you guys get that vibe? Oh and one more thing, Mr. Karp has got it goin’ on in my opinion lol. Dear god I hope he doesn’t read this.
Hee!
villagevoice asked: WHEN WILL YOU ANSWER MY EMMMMAAAAAAILLLL?
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this was the best thing i've ever done
coffee guy: So are these together or separate?
me: Together. He's got it.
coffee guy: That'll be $6.30
Peter: *sobs*
me: BAHAHAHHA.
“I prefer to leave a single copy of The Notebook and a box of Girl Scout cookies...”
– sharingtime on dating.
“I think we follow on there maybe around 170 Tumblr blogs … Nick Summers, who’s...”
– A Conversation With Mark Coatney, the Man Behind Newsweek’s Tumblr [Fishbowl NY]
TWO WEEKS. You’ve been warned, Tumblr.
(via nicksummers)
hahahhahaha. Is it wrong to say this was my favorite part of that interview?
What if your autobiography was a compendium of all the things people have said about you in therapy?
carlo: you know in Filipino we have an entire word dedicated to guys being inept at being too shy to make the right move with a girl.
me: hah really! what is that?
me: i feel like my soul already knows that word.
bendelaney asked: VERY COOL. Is that some deep voodoo trickery that you guys are doing for these new serialized book blogs?... or is there some way for normal Tumblr blogs to show up in chronological order too? I was just last night reading an old book that talked about the old(ish) practice of releasing books in a serialized form in magazines, and thinking to myself that it would be cool to do a serialized book on...
“Hey guys,
About 30 minutes ago a made a post that I thought was pretty cool,...”
– He sends us these every day.
(This was during Gaga’s “hair-bow” phase—that... →
I’m always curious to know what curse words will fly out of my mouth unthinkingly in a moment of stress. I found the answer to this question this morning when a tiny asian lady, in her desperate struggle to make it on the Q train before the world ended or so it seemed, grabbed me by the waist and, hunched over and running like a- i dunno, some football player who runs— and shoved me...
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Also on the way out of the movie a plastic bag was flying around chasing me and it hit my face. A+ Moviegoing Experience
Movie reviews drunk in the cab ride home
I love Noah baumbach. He makes me feel crazy for at least 30 minutes after each of his movies. He can do no wrong in my eyes. Honestly! I forgive him everything and adore his dialogue; I worship at the feet of his dialogue. I love nothing more than being utterly horrified— that mix of horror and recognition. Who does that better? Honestly. Im not joking. It’s painful to watch; it is...
I once tried so hard to make a kid read he pulled a butcher knife on me.
The rest of that story is behind my own personal paywall.
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“At a time when men are still hugely overrepresented in Congress, on executive...”
– “the boys have fallen behind,” nyt
WOW. There’s a lot to unpack here, isn’t there?
The conclusion is that we need to make boys read more, because we need to make the best use of “human capital.” Human capital. No, I think you mean boy capital. And I think you...
weakmeatstrongeat asked: You have written before about how there is a difference between just about everybody's online self and their "real" self.
What aspects of your "real" personality do you feel don't show through in the online version of you? Which ones (if any) do you feel are more exaggerated?
What aspects of your "real" personality do you feel don't show through in the online version of you? Which ones (if any) do you feel are more exaggerated?
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drunk couple on the train platform: You have a green hat.
me: yes I do.
drunk couple ottp: Whoa! your eyes are very pretty.
me: thanks.
them: Where are you from?
me: ...
them: ...
me: Here.
them: Your eyes are so pretty. Those eyes can't be from here.
me: ...
drunk guy: You look like you're from Indiana.
me: Please leave.
tylercoates:
Joni Mitchell - “Cactus Tree”
...
nedhepburn:
also remember when Meaghan would just blog about boys and now she’s kind of like the Suze Orman of Web 2.0?
I used to blog about boys before all the boys had blogs.
SIGH.
courtlynnhawkins-deactivated201 asked: Ahhhhh I hate the quotes that you post all the time. They don't make sense half the time and it drives me nuts! I WANT MORE FUNNY OTHER STUFF OR SOMETHING WOMAN
“I liked children—I did!—or rather, I liked them OK. They were sometimes...”
– from “A Gate at the Stairs” by Lorrie Moore. (via hgbg)
Oh, hi, my first three years in New York.
“They can be any style and on any subject as long as they are good. We are...”
– I really, really like One Story’s submission guidelines. There’s this catholic, open tone with a subtext of BOOM.
“Because if smart women who know how smart they are intimidate men (and they do),...”
– Tiger Beatdown: 13 Ways of Looking at Liz Lemon (required reading) (via syntheticpubes)
(cue maniacal laughter)
kelsey: I haaaate the DC metro
me: Oh i know. Doesn't it make you feel smug?
kelsey: It's archaic! And slow!
kelsey: And concrete like a bunker!
me: (yes)
kelsey: I actually just scoffed at the ticket machine and said, "well in NEW YORK..."
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“I’ll tell you since you asked. I just arrived in this stupid suburb. I...”
– Pump Up the Volume
Melissa made me come over for a C&C field trip and watch this movie on her laptop while we made Plans. It was AMAZING.
“The “I” of journalism is a kind of ultra-reliable narrator and impossibly...”
– Janet Malcolm, NYRblog: Thoughts on Autobiography from an Abandoned Autobiography
““Would you rather be gay or be a girl?”
He chuckles a little....”
– james franco wrote a story about guys driving around in a car, high out of their minds and talking dirty and it is in esquire magazine. it has been workshopped within an inch of its life and seems provocative in all the wrong ways and reads like it’s coming from a man who is learning how to...
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Should it bother me that fuckyeahpersonification.tumblr.com should really be fuckyeahanthropomorphism.tumblr.com? (the mountain shouted into the sky, who just looked back, frowning, telling the mountain to stfu already and get back to your job).
“This is what’s amazing about Kickstarter. This is why I see it not as a...”
– Yancey, Why I Back
conky:
Someone has to do something about these unregulated derivatives that are destabilizing our cultural marketplace! Once we’ve mashitized all of the good songs, we’ll begin remixing subprime music!
Exactly!
maura:
“THE FOREST OF DIGITAL MEDIOCRITY IS TAKING YOUR TALENT AND REMIXING IT FOR ITS OWN BENEFIT.”
Hey meaghano, can you explain what you mean by this? (Preferably without using the word “remixing,” which has become a sort of toxic buzzword imo.) Because I kind of don’t get it. Do you mean that people have to work on the talent they innately possess in order to move forward creatively? That...
“On a related note: The 90s idea that people use the internet as a means to...”
– // carolinemartin: digital mediocrity
digital mediocrity
I keep trying to write stories that in actuality either start or end on the computer (because, let’s be honest! i can’t write a sex book without the internet!) and find myself looking for a better way to portray that interaction and I’m wondering when we will admit this part of our lives in art in a way where that isn’t what it’s about; where it’s not some...