January 2010
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2010!
Just wrote a really long thing about how JD Salinger helped me come out to my parents, then I realized I was drunk.
underrated
Coors light
American candy bars
slow dancing
store-bought kim chi
Dorothy Richardson
new plastic wallet smell
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godhasgiven:
”’…this tea is corked with caffeine. It only looks harmless. Do you drink this stuff all the time?’
‘Well, it’s sort of traditional.’
‘Is that part of the Zen thing, getting punchy so you can see God? Isn’t that cheating?’
‘It’s more just to stay awake. Because we don’t really have God in Zen Buddhism.” She turned away from me and began rifling through the cabinets, but didn’t...
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I wrote this last night but I'm posting it...
“It struck me that distant cities are designed precisely so you can know where you came from. We bring home with us when we leave. Sometimes it becomes more acute for the fact of having left it.” - Colum McCann.
Someone I work with is moving to LA and emailed me this morning asking for tips and suggestions. I rattled off the names of restaurants and taco trucks and bars and parks and...
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This is not about Joshua Ferris
Tonight Joshua Ferris read on the Upper West Side, and the audience was full of old Jews, a lot of whom clearly make a habit of spending their week nights hanging out at Barnes and Noble and many of whom had never read the book. Thanks to the inhibitions of old age, they were the ones who asked most of the questions after the reading. Their questions were all about the premise of the book, which...
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my mom and I discuss the golden globes
On Sandra Bullock
Mom: I mean, we all love her for Speed but I don’t think there’s been anything since then that I’ve even liked. I feel like there must be something….
Me: While You Were Sleeping!
Mom: Of course!
On Avatar
Mom: It was so much fun, like going to an amusement park. But I hate that hippy-dippy crap. Anything with earth mothers and people sitting around...
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What Corrigan wanted was a fully believable God, one you could find in the grime of the everyday. The comfort he got from the hard, cold, truth - the filth, the war, the poverty - was that life could be capable of small beauties. He wasn’t interested in the glorious tales of the afterlife or the notions of a honey-soaked heaven. To him that was a dressing room for hell. Rather he consoled...
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Better to preserve one’s dignity? Bitch, please. →
This partly imaginary interview with Elaine Showalter is the best thing I’ve read in days.
This book! I had forgotten.
Susie had an intense thought and then an effusion. “My dear child, we move in a labyrinth.”
“Of course we do. That’s just the fun of it!” said Milly with a strange gaity. Then she added: “Don’t tell me that – in this for instance – there are not abysses. I want abysses.”
- Henry James, The Wings of the Dove
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What I did this weekend besides drunkenly accosting Meaghano:
1. Went to the Cake Shop for QxBxRx and saw Hand and Knees, a cute band that covered my favorite Vaselines songs. I’ve only been to QxBxRx twice but both times I’ve been really into the music (the crowd is mostly what my friend describes as being “Butt magazine types” with a lot of str8 ppl and a few lesbians...
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Hah!
meaghano:
then these 2 girls came over to me and tapped me on the shoulder and were like IM SO SORRY BUT we have been trying to gather up the nerve to talk to you all night but we are big fans of your blog and i know you are just trying to have a night out with your frienddds but we love you…
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omg.
“Heavenly Creatures 2 starring Ke$ha” - Jack
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New Dangerbird HQs. →
Check out my boy Hrishi rocking a mustard cardigan.
(Miss u, Silver Lake).
First subway ride of the decade: The L from Grand to Morgan, around 4:30 am. The train was brimming with revelers, including this one dude who was wearing an eerily realistic horses head mask. He looked like something out of a modern, urbanized production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream. It was hard to tell if he was alone; everyone kept coming up and taking pictures with him. He seemed to be...