August 2010
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“i’ve always said that the dividing line between internet natives and their elder...”
– fred-wilson
TEAM INTERNET.
Also at first I thought this said, “Whether or not you had sex on the Internet first,” and I kind of freaked out.
O, and then I found those George Saunders haikus....
mustanghalle:
Well-played, Myspace! I will see you again in 3 years (haha, jk, 2012)
George, I turn to you When the world has taken a Crap in my oatmeal But, seriously I don’t want to point fingers Who took this crap, George? George and the Sasquatch: Both bearded, both elusive Coincidence? Hmm
AMERICA.
“What about the bringers?
One of my co-workers brings his lunch. He waits until...”
– Meaghan, in an interview, refering to my fisco-culinary habits. I think I’ll start describing myself as an “admired bringer.” (via matthew)
I really do admire you for this. HAH.
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“Success is nice because then you don’t have to worry so much about having...”
– George Saunders in a wonderful, wonderful interview.
fun fact: a few years ago Halle won the George Saunders haiku contest, and then met him at a party and told him. He loved it.
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“We talked about Vooks and iBook extras like photographs and outtakes. My feeling...”
– stephen elliott, laying out some truth in the daily rumpus.
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2/28/08, "it's this blog program"
me: jen snow texted me last night to tell me i should get a tumblr.
me: so i am!
Halle: whats that?
Halle: Im so out of the loop today
me: its this blog program. ha!
Halle: ooooo.
Halle: o meg
me: o meg?
me: i know you hate blogs.
me: its fun though.
me: it has ways to put in little dialogues
me: and its really easy to use
me: this is all i have so far: http://meaghano.tumblr.com/
Halle: I guess I just dont see the motivation
me: to me at least, its like shit you would normally put on facebook
me: like the way i am moved to update my fbook acct daily
me: but its a better outlet
me: just to put quotes and links and shit
Halle: but its like, the people who will read it are the people who u would just tell these things into in real life
me: yeah well
me: who cares
me: its fun
Halle: i guess so
Halle: well, I know Ill read it
me: ha. plus like all the shit i would normally IM everyone or fwd or something (not that i do that a lot, but in theory), it will all be saved in one space
me: so its nice, just for me, to go back to.
Halle: ok, as long as you arent like, I have a funny link, go to my tumblr to see it
me: oh no haha
me: i will assume no one ever sees it
Halle: yeah right, you want to be the next Julia Allison
me: haha puleez
Halle: you puleez
me: hahaha i will laugh all teh way to a timeout ny cover
“Can I drive a bookmobile all over the country and/or world and like, go hang out...”
– Publishing with an actual human heart.
Also: Why I want people like Meaghan / Melissa / Kickstarter to overthrow Amazon with a non violent, devastating quote-and-wine-and-late text-and-coffee fueled coup.
In other words, we were talking about this book last night and how my heart crushes down...
lovestampede:
So I made all these new friends as of late and to be fair, a few are older than me, but a few are exactly my age. And here’s the thing: they all own furniture. They have real rugs and pieces of actual wooden furniture that aren’t from Ikea, that they didn’t build themselves! They have BRUNCH PARTIES where they invite groups of people who all get along with each other and they’ve...
“The critics, from the New York Times Book Review to Esquire, hail Freedom as a...”
– yay lorin stein.
jacobfdsa asked: i'm a 21 year-old virgin. should virgins read coming & crying? will i find any of it relatable? are there stories in it about "people like me"? will i understand it? will it terrify me/make me want to stay a virgin forever? will my only basic knowledge of sexual terminology/slang suffice or will i have to look lots of dirty things up on urbandictionary.com?
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newyorker:
New Fiction Podcast
Chris Adrian...
“I find it weird to meet writers who aren’t also big readers. Met one the other...”
– Rosecrans Baldwin
this countdown til publication day diary-thing on The Millions today (h/t housingworks!) is hilarious and wonderful. It makes me want to buy a book I’ve never heard of by someone i have never even heard of (UNTIL NOW)(apparently this is an indicator of my own aloofness,...
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8.15 pm. My birthday dinner.
ingoodtaste:
Meaghan: How’s the birthday going? Have you cried yet? Me: Shockingly, no. The birthday has been great. Meaghan: Well. The crying usually happens at night.
HAH, well! Statistics show!
lady parts
heylabodega:
meaghano:
winesburgohio:
hi ladies — the inaugural Lady Parts (001) is happening on August 10, 2010 beginning at 8:30PM. at this time, i’ll be opening up the Kickstarter offices after hours to all women who are in pursuit of independent + creative endeavors and would enjoy a communal, productive working environment to hang out in. come! bring your laptop, your books, your...
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“I had to take a typing test when I started in book publishing. I believe I typed...”
– debbiestier: Finding Your Passion
Things I Don't Understand And Definitely Am Not...
thingsidontunderstandand:
“Midway through I had dinner with (Meaghan) and (I) said maybe (she) should take a break from White Noise. (I said) that DeLillo was surely a sweet, wise old man now but maybe when he wrote this book he was the boy we need to stay away from now.”
In The Guardian, yesterday:
“But I’m not trying to manipulate reality. This is just what I see and hear.”
“What’s...
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White Boys
Tonight a friend of a friend told us that her boyfriend was a consultant.
“A consultant for what?” I asked.
“I have no idea,” she said, “I don’t know what that means.”
I finally finished White Noise last night. As soon as I did I fell asleep on my ___seat, which is a thing I don’t usually do so I like to think this is significant; that maybe I...
Special Announcement: A Runnin' Scared Staffing... →
fek:
Big news, everyone:
It’s Friday, and we here at Runnin’ Scared have an exciting, bittersweet staffing announcement to make to cap this week off with. One of our own is moving on.
YAY, we stole Annie from Foster.
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things my business banker asked me today when he...
how banking with Chase was
what color check binder I ended up going with and how I felt about it
if I was going to “get wild” this weekend
also:
Tonight I was reading some Lydia Davis / googling the shit out of Lydia Davis / found out she was once married to Paul Auster / FREAKED THE FUCK OUT / googled THAT like crazy and found this new yorker book club post. if it makes you scream, then we are friends/married.
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worm-eating among friends.
Today a friend was telling me a story about how he defended me to someone I’d never met. The story was about his loyalty more than the circumstances of my offense, so I just nodded and looked slightly to the left. But later, as we were walking away, I decided to ask him. I think it was mid-sentence, crossing the street. “Wait, why does she hate me?” It was (and is) a genuine...
On twitter:
Foster: I'll never have more than 1600 followers.
Me: why?
Foster: Because people don't like me.
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