January 2012
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Dream-Me Is Cleverer Than Waking-Me
Someone in my dream: Wow, you're really mad. You should go talk to her.
Dream-Me: Oh yes, don't worry. She and I are about to have a serious fist-to-face.
I'm Glad I Have a Friend Who Refuses to Let Me Be...
Riki: So I'm going to pick you up and drive you into the Marigny and we're all going to head over to the Children's Museum from there. Then we'll get oysters later. How's that sound?
Me: Ehhhhh. I've been slacking off so much lately that I should really work late. And I have to walk my dog. And I'm feeling gross today. Can I just catch a cab and meet up with you later for the oysters part?
Riki: Janis. Let me take a moment to impress this upon you. The Children's Museum is hosting an "adult playdate." Which means an open bar in a GIANT KALEIDOSCOPE ROOM FOR ONE NIGHT OF THE YEAR AND IF YOU MISS OUT ON THIS YOU WILL NEVER FORGIVE YOURSELF.
Me: (sigh) See you at 5:30.
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How To Get Kids To Read? Give Them Banned Books.... →
“Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should...”
– Katharine Hepburn (via musicnotesandmuses)
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“Writing is often called “news from elsewhere,” and speaking about one world to...”
– Zadie Smith’s “Mind the Gap” over at Guernica (via spectercollective)
“Daily he told me I was beautiful,
my breast cupped in his palm cured
me of any...”
– Doris Ferleger, Mirrors (via grammatolatry)
"A Streetcar Named Desire"
Thorton Wilder: Oh, no, impossible that a woman of Stella’s background and breeding could have married someone of Stanley’s class.
Tennessee Williams: (overhearing) Well, evidently, Mr. Wilder has never had a good lay…
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“Delay is natural to a writer. He is like a surfer—he bides his time, waits for...”
– E. B. White (via theparisreview)
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“The original sense of the word “entertainment” is a lovely one of...”
– Michael Chabon, “Trickster in a Suit of Lights: Thoughts on the Modern Short Story,” Maps & Legends
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Blue-Penciling Noah and The Whale's "First Days of...
The First Days of Spring, Charlie Fink’s 2009 opus about his split from former girlfriend/collaborator Laura Marling, is self-indulgently whiny, melodramatic, and often annoying. Some choice lines include: “I have nothing, I have no one,” “Everything I love has gone away,” and “Your love is like a knife to the back.” (I’m just scratching the...
W. W. Norton: The Obligation to Be Happy →
wwnorton:
It is more onerous than the rites of beauty or housework, harder than love. But you expect it of me casually, the way you expect the sun to come up, not in spite of rain or clouds but because of them.
And so I smile, as if my own fidelity to sadness were a hidden vice— that downward tug…
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sublime-mango replied to your post: Books I Want to Read in 2012
If you haven’t read it yet, definitely Let the Great World Spin. Anna just finished The Help and really enjoyed it.
Thanks! I’ll check ‘em out. I’m a little hesitant to read The Help because I thought the movie was a bit simplistic and cornball (read: I am a joyless snob), but I’ll give it a shot as a...
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Books I Want to Read in 2012
The Tiger’s Wife by Tea Obreht
1Q84 by Haruki Murakami
A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides
Leaving the Atocha Station by Ben Lerner
[sic] by Joshua Cody
Zeitoun by Dave Eggers
Swamplandia! by Karen Russell
Summerland by Michael Chabon
Maps & Legends by Michael Chabon
The Moviegoer by Walker Percy
Small Gods by Terry Pratchett
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ghost-plot asked: It's good to hear your singing again. I love how well you did the Christmas song :) Probably the best I've heard it sung.
