August 2012
I don't know what the big deal is, I talk to...
“Hope you like butts.”
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“We live in a world that grossly and violently undervalues the great majority of...”
– China Miéville on the future of the novel accidentally dropping some truth
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"The Heart of a Broken Story" by J.D. Salinger →
Published in Esquire, September 1941.
That was the beginning of the story I started to write for Collier’s. I was going to write a lovely tender boy-meets-girl story. What could be finer, I thought. The world needs boy-meets-girl stories. But to write one, unfortunately, the writer must go about the business of having the boy meet the girl. I couldn’t do it with this one. Not and have...
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Hump day
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Amazon.com reviews of "BIC For Her" ballpoint pens →
No good for man hands I bought this pen (in error, evidently) to write my reports of each day’s tree felling activities in my job as a lumberjack. It is no good. It slips from between my calloused, gnarly fingers like a gossamer thread gently descending to earth between two giant redwood trunks.
Important Messages to My Past Self
Don’t drink that last drink.
Don’t order the fish.
Go back to sleep. It’s not worth it.
Switch to boxer briefs.
Try those on first.
Buy a keyboard protector for your laptop.
Keep taking art classes.
Take a photography class.
That camera is nice, but you’ll never use it.
Write more.
Watch Daria, it’s good.
All the “punk” music you’ve heard...
"Back in the early 70s, when some of us in the GOP... →
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Watchnotasenator:
phlynn:
Industrial goth dance groups are having a good time
Freddie would have been so proud.
Having a great time.
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The Woman in 606: Aftermath of a Stranger’s Death... →
There is a lot to unpack in this heartbreaker of a story. There is a lot to learn too. Like the author, I had no idea that pot could have really negative consequences for people with some mental illnesses:
When I asked the psychologist what she would have done had Rosado survived and been admitted to her care, she said she would have put a stop to the marijuana right away. When I asked why, she...
“Romney has zero sympathy for those who don’t feel the same way he does. And he’s...”
– Patton Oswalt is voting for Obama because he loves money, but he’s not money’s bitch.
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Miracle Legion - “All For The Best”
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Tom Waits - “Martha”
“Right now, in these United States, an American man — and it is always a man — is...”
– A Modest Proposal to End the Summer of Mass Shootings
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What’s a Monkey to Do in Tampa? →
Can’t even begin to cover how great this article is. I could give you this quote: “In one of my divorces, I lost $100,000 worth of tortoises.” Or maybe this beauty of a sentence: “This is not the first time that monkeys have incited a minor populist uprising in Florida.” But it’s just not enough, so here are the first two paragraphs. Read the rest. It’s killer.
The...
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The Books - “Drowned But Survived”...
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"So once you give up on the idea of making money... →
A+++
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WatchNew video for “Get Free” by Major Lazer. When do the Major Lazer letter jackets go on sale?
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"This isn’t the first time I’ve gone into an... →
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'Everything You've Heard About Failing Schools Is... →
Great article out of Mission High School in San Francisco on how No Child Left Behind’s testing mandate is hurting the students and school.
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"The Depressed Person" by David Foster Wallace... →
via Kat Kinsman’s “Going Public with Depression”
