May 2012
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Sometimes, it's really good that I have a blog so...
Tonight I realized that I have never (since my brother was born 19.25 years ago) lived with fewer than five people.
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You know you're making only the best life choice...
The big question of your Saturday afternoon is:
To play handball with the septuagenerian you met at the bar or not to play handball with the septuagenerian you met at the bar?
onoffduty:
Dancing on My Own - Robyn
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April 2012
15 posts
A Poem-A-Day Celebration: Marie Howe's "After the... →
celebratepoetry:
Killer Verse: Poems of Murder and Mayhem is a surprising little volume from our Everyman’s Pocket Poets library. It contains everything from anonymous “murder ballads” and verse by the likes of Thomas Hardy and Robert Browning to more contemporary entries by Frank Bidart, Carol Ann Duffy, and…
the looking glass world: a real thing that is... →
The workshops I’ve taken at Williams over the past three years have done me a great deal of good; I’ve come a long way as a writer - and especially as a reader - thanks to them, and produced a number of pieces I’m excited to refine. I see this project as an opportunity to both make use of what…
You guys, my frosh are like… so super talented I cannot even handle it. This frosh in...
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Also:
I’m pretty sure my bank teller is hungover as shit. Bank Tellers: They’re just like us!
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“There are rules, man. This isn’t nam.”
– Steve Motherfucking Rubin, on my current life situation. Best gchat I’ve ever had. (I can say that definitively because I started gchatting two weeks ago.)
Where To Find NYC's Best Dim Sum? It Might Just Be...
villagevoice:
Robert Sietsema writes:
Genting Palace is a recently opened Chinese restaurant situated on the third floor of the casino glued onto the north end of the old racetrack. The place boasts large round tables, a couple of private rooms, amazingly clean fish and crab tanks, strange dangling light fixtures, and a view of the pony action on the oval below through big picture windows....
newyorker:
Listening Booth: The Alabama Shakes...
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I am shamelessly wearing no pants at the eye...
Or, rather, wearing leggings and pretending that they’re pants. That’s okay, right? My butt is cuter than it was in high school, yes?
Hometown problems, man.
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“Until I began to build and launch rockets, I didn’t know my hometown was...”
– Rocket Boys Homer H. Hickam, Jr
That’s a hell of a first paragraph, right there. The rest of the book was pretty outstanding as well. This is the memoir that inspired the movie October Sky, which I remember renting with my mom and brothers one Friday night back when Blockbuster was still a...
March 2012
14 posts
It’s a little bit absurd how often I accidentally select the espanol setting at the self-checkout.
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“Baseball skill relates inversely to age. The older a man gets, the better a...”
– Boys of Summer Roger Kahn
2012, so far, in books:
Paris to the Moon Adam Gopnik
The Book Thief Markus Zusak
Bartleby the Scrivener Herman Melville
The Alchemist Paulo Coelho
Young Men and Fire Norman Maclean
Skippy Dies Paul Murray
The Collected Works of Billy the Kid Michael Ondaatje
...
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I Stumbled Upon this Poem Today, While Looking for...
A Color of the Sky
Tony Hoagland
Windy today and I feel less than brilliant,
driving over the hills from work.
There are the dark parts on the road
when you pass through clumps of wood
and the bright spots where you have a view of the ocean,
but that doesn’t make the road an allegory.
I should call Marie and apologize
for being so boring at dinner last night,
but can I really promise not...
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I Have Two Main Problems In My Life Right Now
One being that I have too many books that I want to read. TOO MANY BOOKS. And although I have been finding slightly more time to read for pleasure this year than the past four (thank you, DEAR days), my To-Read list is growing exponentially faster than my Have-Read list.
My other problem is that I do not have a job for next year.
So, I’m thinking that I should become a professional...
“The wallflower sat reading in the Paris restaurant. There used to be so many...”
– Speedboat, Renata Adler (via kelsfjord)
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Things
(Or: I’ve been a neglectful blogger lately)
1. It was 70 degrees here today and so I snuck out of school during activities block to play basketball with my boss, and then left early to go for a run. Both solid decisions, sanity wise.
2. When I grow up I want my house to have no drinking glasses, only repurposed peanut butter jars. Also, one type of Tupperware only so that all the tops fit...
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“Well your name is “Greatest Lover” and you are 19…see you...”
– The return of SPcupid
February 2012
17 posts
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Hah.
Dropping me off at the airport this morning, my dad asked if I’d remembered to bring a book. Uh, I’ve got seven.
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“Maybe instead of strings it’s stories things are made of, an infinite...”
– Skippy Dies Paul Murray
This book was incredible. Maybe particularly resonant with me, because I work at a school, but I think that the things I liked about it would also speak to anyone who has ever been a teenager or ever been in love or ever felt lost or ever… had a pulse? I don’t...
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“Damn. He seems really nice. I’m gonna ignore him for a while.”
– This is why women get a bad rap, probably
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“According to this thing, I more old-fashioned and less political than the...”
– EPRuddz, getting a biting critique from the OkCupid analytics
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Had to.
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SPcupid
Two of my housemates, SP and the esteemed ERuddz, joined OkCupid tonight…and gave me permission to document the experience here. Jackpot.
We have this inside joke about “walking the Freedom Trail” that SP incorporated into her profile. In the past fifteen minutes, she has gotten six messages from dudes offering their services as tour guide. They do not get the joke.
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“Even so, there may somewhere be an ending to this story, although it might take...”
– Young Men and Fire Norman Maclean
2012, so far, in books:
Paris to the Moon Adam Gopnik
The Book Thief Markus Zusak
Bartleby the Scrivener Herman Melville
The Alchemist Paulo Coelho
Young Men and Fire Norman Maclean
If I had been physically capable of staying up until midnight, I was going to post at the equinox of my brothers’ birthdays (they were born four years and three hundred sixty four days apart; today, newly nineteen and nearly twenty-four). But, alas, I am overworked and sleepy. So:
HAPPY BIRTHDAY BROSKIS!!!
…may you never find this blog
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Notable entries in my recent Google search...
(I’ll let you puzzle out which ones were for kids and which were just…me)
1. World’s longest tapeworm
2. World’s ugliest baby
3. How old is Madonna?
4. How old is Nelson Mandela?
5. Flights to Vegas
6. TI real name
7. Flo-Rida real name
8. How did Marvin Gaye die?
9. Moldy pie risks
10. Fat people falling down