February 2012
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Words to keep inside your pocket:
Quiescent - a quiet, soft-spoken soul.
Chimerical - merely imaginary; fanciful.
Susurrus - a whispering or rustling sound.
Raconteur - one who excels in story-telling.
Clinquant - glittering; tinsel-like.
Aubade - a song greeting the dawn.
Ephemeral - lasting a very short time.
Sempiternal - everlasting; eternal.
Euphonious - pleasing; sweet in...
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shesjustatoms replied to your post: My First Foray into Kicking Asses
Not to be disgusting, but my first Jiu Jitsu class was spent with my head underneath some guys balls. I didn’t breath through my nose and I pretended to be anywhere but there.
Thank GOD I found a balls-less women’s class. But yeah, pretending to be anywhere else seems to be a good strategy. It’s the same one I...
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My First Foray into Kicking Asses
Watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer has made me want to learn how to fight, and I just got out of my first Jiu Jitsu class. Dear Lord, if anything is going to cure me of my intimacy/social weirdness issues, it is going to be this. I think I spent about five minutes with my head in a girl’s crotch when all was said and done. Reminded me of my women’s college days! (Kidding.) (Maybe.) It...
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thistleburr replied to your video: You know those rare moments in adulthood when,…
Wonderful. Thanks so much for posting :) And yes, I know that feeling.
:) Thanks for listening.
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dreamtigers replied to your video: You know those rare moments in adulthood when,…
this is really beautiful. i sincerely hope you perform for other people, you’re obviously very talented.
Thank you. I haven’t played out in a while because I’m annoyingly self-critical, so this encouragement was lovely.
WatchYou know those rare moments in adulthood when, despite your tough exoskeleton, you suddenly feel young and vulnerable and alive again? When you feel pain and angst for just a second and don’t worry about it enough to realize that it’s dumb and self-indulgent and pointless? And it feels weirdly good, because you’re aware of the world in earnest for once; your whole body just...
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shesjustatoms replied to your photo: As much as I want to make it out to Endymion, I am…
Woah, sweet Fargo shirt. Also, bad Chinese food is the best reading food. It’s easier to appreciate how good other things are when the food is horrible. Honestly, I’ve been drinking and have 0 inhibitions. I’m sorry if this is really weird.
Agreed! It’s just bad enough not to detract from the...
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ghost-plot replied to your photo: As much as I wish I want to make it out to…
Is that one of the comics? I assume you’ve finished the show? :)
Yes, I’ve been dedicated and bored. What was that, three weeks? I should win something. In my defense, it’s been very rainy and I only knocked out the rest of the last season today, which FLOORED me.
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I walked out of the densely-packed diner, hugging myself against the bright cold. Green parrots huddled together on the telephone lines.
Two blocks from my apartment, a disheveled black man was staggering down Delachaise. I’d seen him lurching down the middle of the road and muttering to himself a few nights before, and I’d avoided him.
“Miss, I need to get to Canal Street. How...
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“The first thing you notice about New Orleans are the burying grounds - the...”
– Bob Dylan (via fuckyeahcajuns)
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“Madame Lily Devalier always asked “Where are you?” in a way that insinuated that...”
– Tom Robbins in Jitterbug Perfume (via myloveneworleans)
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Ebooks: It's not what you say, it's how you say...
austinkleon:
Exhibit A: Jonathan Franzen
Maybe nobody will care about printed books 50 years from now, but I do. When I read a book, I’m handling a specific object in a specific time and place. The fact that when I take the book off the shelf it still says the same thing – that’s reassuring….Someone worked really hard to make the language just right, just the way they wanted it. They were so...
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