September 2010
Srsly
Me: hey, have you seen all those It Gets Better videos?
Lindsay: like the thing Dan Savage did?
Me: Yeah, There's a whole channel on YouTube, it's so wonderful!
Lindsay: I need them to do one for straights.
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“It’s not necessarily that important to me that a book be funny. Like, if I had a...”
– David Sedaris in this great thing.
tonight i was crossing the street with a big bag of laundry and it was around 8 and a bunch of people were coming home from work (because we are Sad here and work too late) and cars were doing their car stuff (driving) and this guy came pedaling around the bend on his bike saying, “Brake. Brake. Brake. Brake. Brake,” and I had already been laughing to myself about something else and...
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a thing i just googled
do aliens make sounds
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Bridge Jumping/ W4M / Poughkeepsie (The Walkway)
shipsthatpass:
You smelled of burning maps, smirked as to let slip the dogs of war. Not the stale slate windbreaker & steel-cut oats above the Hudson. I was whistling “Wake Up, Little Susie” & wearing a huipil. Your crow’s feet, tasseographical signs for journey of hindrance, diploma . The conversation went like giraffes fighting: How do you behead a poem like a horse? Why is the...
ingoodtaste:
Take Me With U, Prince
It’s...
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"I Hit Her" →
melissa:
Jezebel turns their comments on/to Alex Hoyt’s story from Coming & Crying.
This is great. You can read the whole story over there. It’s very, very good.
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“She looks at him, limp as a wet valentine. His kilowatt eyes, turned up full...”
– Mary Gaitskill’s very first published story, “Something Better Than This,” is up on Fictionaut. Ahhh. (h/t Electric Literature).
M-G8tz:
I was 22 when I wrote this. I can’t remember where it came from except that I did actually sell rhodium jewelry on Yonge St. in Toronto in...
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kapi asked: How much pussy has working at TUMBLR gotten you? I bet a lot!
Anonymous asked: What does it look like, the taking a risk on someone if you like them?
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“I mean, you don’t have to worry about how your bangs look when...”
– Lindsay’s compelling argument in favor of us getting ourselves to a nunnery.
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Pitchfork Reviews Reviews: the documentary... →
pitchforkreviewsreviews:
during the christmas break of my sophomore year in college i went to california to visit friends and see california and get out of new york because i had just stopped dating the girl who i had been dating and i was sad about it, and i think there is this idea that when two people stop dating, the…
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nogreatillusion asked: Hi Meaghan. I've been meaning to buy Coming and Crying, and I was planning to order it, but last night my boyfriend and I broke up and I don't feel like getting out of bed all day, except I think that I would if I could go pick up that book and bring it back home. My question is whether or not you know if it's still available at Mcnally Jackson because I don't know if I could...
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nightmarebrunette:
Carly Simon — Coming Around...
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leoncrawl:
Why is it that every time I write a feature off my beat the thesis is some form of “everyone in New York is so sad constantly”?
Leon. That IS your beat.
“Colors don’t matter much to Zuckerberg; a few years ago, he took an online test...”
– omg
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brooklyn book festival: tomorrow! →
comingandcrying:
This is tomorrow, guys.
Melissa and I will be there peddling our wares (or signing your copy)(or saying hi and hanging out)(whatever you’re into) from 1-2pm at the Kickstarter booth in some far flung corner of the thing.
Anyway, you may come (this is ill-advised), you may cry (at someone else’s panel, please do not cry at our booth), you’ll meet us IRL, buy 1 book or many (but...
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“The thing I have come to love about Tumblr is that it’s not just writing in...”
– Erica, Coming & Crying: C&C Contributors, part 12
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tiffany asked: Last night I began reading Coming&Crying. I had a dream that I gave the book to my 10 year-old cousin and was convinced it was appropriate for her and something she needed to read to learn about the world. I was then chased through a mall by a knife-wielding psychopath with mother issues.
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Bust reviewed the book, hooray! →
Coming & Crying got its funding through a platform for artists called Kickstarter, which makes the book sort of a full-circle of helping. People helping people have popular blogs, people helping people have sexy times to write about in said blogs, and people helping people to get books made so that people who don’t have the Internet (can you imagine?) can read about them. I’m...