January 2012
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I discovered this great post-holiday cleanse where you do something really crazy to your jaw on new year’s eve so that for however many days (I’m still in the thick of it) you can’t eat solid food without experiencing a lot of pain. Just soup, juice and booze for you! You’ll feel a little light headed, but don’t worry, that’s just the toxins leaving your...
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December 2011
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“What is so painful about that time is that nothing was disastrous. It was all wrong, ugly, unhappy and colored with cynicism, but nothing was tragic, there were no moments that could change anything or anybody. From time to time the emotional lightning flashed and showed a landscape of private misery and then - we went on dancing.” - Doris Lessing, The Golden Notebook
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notes on the video for The Counting Crows' "Long...
- Don’t install a chalkboard wall because you saw it on Apartment Therapy if you’re just gonna end up doing that with it.
- This girl is wearing slacks. Slacks!
- This palette, ubiquitous in the late 90s, is my least favorite of all: washed out teal, pewter and black, hazy browns.
- I’d imagine that a hospital in winter smells better than a hospital in summer.
- That guy...
PONPONPON DE FLOOR.
can’t stop won’t...
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You go away for a while, you go get old somewhere else, and then when you come back everything is pretty much the same except the bathroom fixtures feel a little smaller and a little lower to the ground, some babies have been born, what was once Video Hut is now a scary “organic food” place with giant posters of Kristie Alley in the window and nothing vaguely organic-looking about it,...
advice
When your twelve year-old cousin says “On the count of three, name your favorite dinosaur,” he’s just quoting Step-Brothers, not asking your opinion, and shouting “triceratops!” will make you look like kind of an idiot.
November 2011
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October 2011
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And this is the thing: that there in that circle,... →
Wild Beasts - Hooting & Howling
Now listen to...
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September 2011
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Rock Dove - Seduce and Distract
This is the sound...
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a few R.E.M. memories
My parents met and fell in love in Athens, GA in the early 80s and R.E.M. was the soundtrack to their courtship. I was home a few months ago and joked with my parents about how, while we were never religious, they did raise us to believe in a few indisputable truths: Christmas is awesome, New York is the ultimate place to live, and R.E.M. is the best band. It’s really no exaggeration to say...
August 2011
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star struck
I saw Eileen Myles on the L train this morning. I saw her shoes first, actually, because I was thinking about sneakers. I was listening to Celebrity Skin and not really paying attention to the ancient, yellowing copy of The Ambassadors I had in front of me. I was thinking about sneakers because I bought some at Payless yesterday after my worishofer sandals totally gave out on me and the $15...
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accidental poem found while updating the mail list
DELETE: laid off
DELETE: grad school
DELETE: died
July 2011
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credits from the imdb page for Eunice Anderson,...
- Esther
- Grandma
- Frail Old Lady
- Older Mae
- Susan’s Aunt
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