September 2011
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i have been busting my ass for the last nearly three years, since i was laid off from the publishing company. i have spent the last six weeks killing myself working two jobs, with the hopes of turning my day job into a full-time position.
today, i got that position. i’m working directly with the head of the company, day-to-day writing/editing/idea work for him. it’s an opportunity to...
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I refuse to be bitter. I refuse to bitter. There’s a madness in us all. I will figure this out. I will figure this out. There’s a madness in us all. I will figure this out. I will not be bitter.
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“I’d wish the reader, in the course of falling into one of my stories, to grow...”
– i love this. this is perfect. this is exactly what art is about. very well said.
Steven Millhauser from this excellent interview by Marc Chénetier. I’ve been reading and re-reading his masterful short stories lately. (via crashinglybeautiful)
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Word of the Day
this may be the actual essence of the human experience.
thedankestmofo:
pareidolia
Noun: The imagined perception of a pattern or meaning where it does not actually exist.
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not reading into it
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“So everything lets us down, including curiosity and honesty and what we love...”
– Roberto Bolano
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“Books are finite, sexual encounters are finite, but the desire to read and to...”
– Roberto Bolano
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Pirate walks into a bar with a steering wheel shoved in his pants.
Bartender says “hey pirate, why do you have a steering wheel in your pants?”
Pirate says, “yargh, it’s drivin’ me nuts”
Happy international talk like a pirate day!
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Now I am quietly waiting for
the catastrophe of my personality
to seem...”
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i got a date with the prettiest girl in Chicago!
excuse me while i dance
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-9-11) →
The Shivers (17)
Treetop Flyers (11)
Al Green (8)
Mimicking Birds (8)
Otis Redding (6)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
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blackbeatnik asked: hi! so I wanted to say thanks for answering my questions and stuff, I've decided to stop being chicken and major in English.
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uh oh
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“i’ll keep one eye on you, if you keep one on me”
– mimicking birds
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yellowstone: bison v. moose →
oh jesus
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-9-4) →
Blind Pilot (107)
The Head And The Heart (82)
Bon Iver (68)
The Antlers (63)
Radical Face (60)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
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here’s to you, mrs. robinson
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A 15-year-old girl told me I look like Ashton Kutcher—ten minutes later, a 2-year-old told me I look like ‘women..’ I don’t know how to take this.
tastefullyoffensive:
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it worries me that thus far I’ve found that all doctors (via editing and formatting their lectures) have two things in common—incredibly poor grammar, and all-but-zero creativity (e.g., “upto” as a single word, over and over and over..).
