March 2012
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"adulthood"
I’ve latched onto a complex idea but cannot properly organize its components! This is probably because it is Leap Day. Around the world, adults are turning five, six, seven and eight years old.
The brain isn’t working so well lately. I must spring clean it soon. There is an upcoming opportunity to buy a spring wardrobe and I have no idea what I want to look like once it gets warm...
February 2012
8 posts
swans and lakes
Sometimes I wish that instead of talking, people would just sort of grandly gesture at each other, the way they do in the plot-advancing part of ballets. It wouldn’t save time, but the number of headaches in the world would decrease.
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i put the "adios" in radios
Couple o’ buds of mine are doing a grand ol’ radio show called LIT RADIO. They read short stories and nonfiction. It’s like story time, only not in preschool. Stream it live every Monday at 1pm HERE. And oh yeah, they’re on tumblr.
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“Not About Love” — Fiona Apple
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a disturbing pattern
Recently, at a certain bar in the town where I go to school, I have fallen victim to a conversational scam. Here it is: a man under the age of thirty approaches me at the bar for some light chit-chat.
“Nice scarf.” ”Cold out.” ”I like your glasses.” “Whiskey on the rocks! Ho, ho, ho, that’s a drink!”
Inevitably the man asks me if I am in...
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"some tracks just like to party. they came to get...
Right now David Choe is a big deal because he’s making $200M for painting a mural in the original Facebook office, but back in 2005 he was a big deal to me because he had the best playlist in Thurston Moore’s book about mixtapes.
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vittles
The Paris Review Daily has recently displayed much ardor for retro gormandizing. Both Robin Bellinger’s experiments with “invalid cookery” and Sadie Stein’s fascination with a cookbook from 1917 called A Thousand Ways to Please a Husband make for wonderful essays. I can see why one would be intrigued by “boubons with tomato sauce” or “chilly cubes of...