January 2010
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Exactly ten years ago I was sitting at home with my mom, watching Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve and bemoaning the fact that there were no parties to go to (I wrote a really bitter, unintentionally funny journal entry that night, but unfortunately it’s on paper in a book in a box somewhere in South Carolina). Right now I am on my way out of the house, and all I can...
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Where have all you jerks who keep insisting that...
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“New Age” - The Velvet Underground
If...
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“This Will Be Our Year” - The Zombies
I’ve...
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December 2009
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“Transmission” - Hot Chip (Joy...
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The Only Things On My Christmas List I Did Not...
deliberatepace:
Both Ways Is The Only Way I Want It by Maile Meloy
Home: A Novel by Marilynne Robinson
Family Album by Penelope Lively
Looks like I’m going to need to fly to NY and visit Strand. That’s cost effective, right?
Mr. Ireland says that Housekeeping (which I am going to start in a few days) is even better than Home and that Both Ways Is The Only Way I Want It is awesome. Mrs....
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For Joe on Christmas, a sonnet
by Lillian Pontius-Goldblatt
This place where our head/heart meets is a feast,
table laid thick; cutlery, tongs, shallots,
carafes, Shiraz, a gravy boat, no beast.
Our menu designed for refined palates.
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It must also be the dirty plates, pots.
Yes, you are also the pan’s spitting fat.
I simmer and singe, with unthinking thoughts,
and laying across, like a log, the cat.
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But we are...
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I didn’t get the job. The story is much longer and much more complicated than that, of course, but I don’t want to tell it right now. When I heard the news I was crushed and gutted and a host of other messy adjectives.
But now I am in California. Two hours after I got the word I was on a plane. What a wonderful feeling. Like running away, but with none of the consequences. Travel can...
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“If Love is a Red Dress” - Maria...
Avatar: changing the face of film for ever →
sofresh:
am i the only one who doesn’t want to see films in 3D?
(via suddenly)
I didn’t want to see Avatar in 3-D, so I didn’t. It was good enough in two dimensions.
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“Germany has declared war on Russia. Swimming in the afternoon.”
– Franz Kafka’s diary, August 2, 1914 (via symphonyno2ineminor)
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Alec Soth is blogging again! →
Because my Google Reader just doesn’t have enough blogs about photography on it (that was me being facetious, I follow about 25 photo blogs and another dozen or so general art blogs).
That reminds me: for the past couple weeks all the photography blogs have been atwitter over this future of photobooks discussion. To me, it seems as though tangible photobooks are more popular than ever, even...
jaclynalyse:
itsjanna:
I don’t understand how it’s possible to spend more than five minutes a day on Facebook, but then I’ve been on it since 2004 and don’t have anyone left to stalk.
Doesn’t matter. You’ll just find another addiction.
I shouldn’t have to say it. You all know how much I post every day.
However, at least my obsession isn’t with other people’s lives. It’s with my own.
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Yet another article about how Facebook is a... →
I don’t understand how it’s possible to spend more than five minutes a day on Facebook, but then I’ve been on it since 2004 and don’t have anyone left to stalk.
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