April 2010
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Didactic Post
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Samuel Jackson: I said, ‘What does a Read More tag look like?’
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March 2010
“Christian Lorentzen, controversially, at nplusonemag.com, [says], Grow up, shut...”
– nplusonemag: issue 9
Uhhh… ‘controversially?’
Rilkesayswhat?
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When they write your biography, will they read your gchat archives to find out how you corresponded?
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I’m not certain, but I think it’s born of my wretchedness that I am set against the very certain people whom I should love. (Ie, everyone—but more specifically—)
To be stupidly allusive, you could say shallow-like that I am without ‘syn.’
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Tumblr: The easiest least civil blog platform on the internet!
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Yonic Sooth
So you can be sure I’ll be using the word ‘yonic,’ from now on.
(Image: © Jennifer Maestre)
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An easy explanation for the MGMT video.
Hey, I heard Woah Anderbauch had a new film coming out!
“This whole unemployment porn genre is honestly starting to creep me out to a...”
– wandering stars: Here’s A Thought (via katoleary) (via natface)
Honestly apropos of nothing, this sums up in practical terms what I’ve been beginning to suspect, lately: That the victory of existentialism has been essentially cored out and left as an aesthetic rather than a moral stance. And...
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“Is there a primordial music? Something with roots so deep that all human music...”
– Context-less Amazon.com Review Excerpt.
Is there such a thing as a stupid question? It might be impossible to answer that question, but one has to wonder if all such unanswerable questions aren’t asked by stupid people.
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“You will be a billion times more interested than you were when the New Yorker...”
– a grammar: don’t act like you don’t *WANT* James Franco’s allegedly horrible short story
I don’t want to dictate taste. (I don’t think Nitsuh wants to dictate taste.) I don’t even want to dictate discussion. But I will never, ever stop saying that if...
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James Franco's short story is a crush killer →
He’s a handsome, fascinating actor. And his fictional piece in Esquire is bad enough to make you forget all that.
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“The funny thing is that the vast majority of your followers who like this post...”
– A Conservative Tumblog
I think you’re probably lucky that the majority of her followers didn’t click through to read the OP.
It’s pretty clear you have a distinct conception of what it means to be human, form communities, and coexist with other humans. And the strong implication...
Anonymous asked: Are there any internship opportunities available to work with you this summer?
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“You found this Baumbach DVD in the music section of Barnes and Noble, You picked...”
– Meaghan O’Connell (via Wipe Your Feet)
This is one of the funniest, aptest, saddest things I’ve ever read. (As I watch Kicking and Screaming.) It should be the war cry for the Tumblr generation. It should be stitched ironically as a doorframe auspice. Put it on pot holders. This is the stuff...
Oh hey look. It's the script to 'Kicking and... →
Prague is division one Bratislava.
So I know this really smart, funny girl who got... →
Sady Doyle on Liz Lemon’s Watered-Down Politics Doyle, who blogs about gender and pop culture at Tiger Beatdown, offers a nimble, hilarious evisceration of Liz Lemon, Tina Fey’s character on 30 Rock. Though Liz pays lip service to feminism, Doyle says, she’s really more interested in “Liz Lemonism”: she cares about identity politics only to the extent that they...
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Brief Fiction: "I Am A Terrible Driver" →
We’re aside a half-fixed up blue Chevy. I tilt my entire upper body as I turn the wheel into the car. It feels languid and satisfying as when you cut a lemon and feel the knife edge poised to break the thick, pitted skin. Before the bitter citrus spume. The cars connect as a light nudge. The blue Chevy, though, steps on his breaks and overcorrects. I see him in the mirror fishtailing. I...
It’s so difficult to write trenchant remarks about anything when it’s this sunny and you’re this obnoxiously in love. But let me just say, If you use the word ‘musings,’ then you’d better be seventeen years old or one of Calliope’s sisters.
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I have that caved-in-chest feeling that means only one thing.
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Nothing get’s me off so completely as lightweight/noweight shoe porn.
This is my contribution to belles-lettres, today....
He (I mean I) started the day full to bursting with hope. But as the book that is good takes the pains to so say, admixing old and new causes the vessel to (be) hew(n). In two. (In tune.) [The sun shone having no alternative.] And since he (I mean I) was at the office, he (I mean I) needed Office. And so hope mixed with MS, and it caused a big mess.
So now. Ice cream.
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I spent an hour figuring out how to make an iPhone favicon for my new website. Life! You never really accomplish what you hope to accomplish.
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from "Scylla and Charybdis"
—Do you mean to fly in the face of the tradition of three centuries? John Eglinton’s carping voice asked. Her ghost at least has been laid for ever. She died, for literature at least, before she was born.
—She died, Stephen retorted, sixtyseven years after she was born. She saw him into and out of the world. She took his first embraces. She bore his children and she laid pennies on his eyes...
"13 Ways of Looking at Liz Lemon" was going to be... →
(via sadydoyle)
This (this!) is the sort of thing I have to contend with when I’m like, ‘Gee, Brian. Let’s hunker down and be a serious writer, tonight. Oh but hey there’s some basketball on TV and you’re kind of sick, still, so maybe you should just drink some tea and sit on the couch.’ It’s like a negative-critique rebuke. It’s like seeing that...
“Make a small penis joke and a man feels pain. He cares about injustice and...”
– Jaime Leigh F. on Noted Tumblr Gender-Rights Activist Foster Kamer Confronts Essentialism on The Awl
I know anecdotes and data aren’t related, but it’s like every time a woman criticizes* a man, men really are all about injustice and gender/whatever roles.
*Nb, that Awl piece looked...
Giant Drag “Wicked Games”
Before...
Yo momma so fat, when she accepted Jesus into her... →
Yo-Momma-So-Fat Jokes from Bible Camp by Mike Richardson-Bryan (baitandswitch)
I am always so fucking game for your mother is so fat jokes.
“Leveling Up,” a new poem by Johnathon Williams.
Buddhists know suffering to be like the ghosts in Super Mario Brothers—they advance only when your back is turned. To face them is to reclaim the distance between you and your mind. How to believe in such power? Last night, I lay awake till 5 a.m., then drove to Starbucks. New light crept toward all the dampened metal in the room. The pretty barista...
“‘My application’s not bought,’ I am telling them, calling into the darkness of...”
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Matt Langer: Metacriticism; or, olds v. youngs. →
You kids these days and your “generation this” and “generation that.” In my day, we were too busy xeroxing our zines at kinkos and listening to the pixies before they were popular to bother with all this generational foofaraw. Just Say NO! to media manufactured intergenerational conflict. It only distracts from the brewing anti-corporate class war. Death to the C-level pigs! (mumblelard)
I...
