December 2011
1 post
October 2011
5 posts
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WatchHaunting and wonderful.
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“I wonder what it would be like if I were a male rock star? Maybe I just could be like ‘fuck it’ and keep someone hanging there. But, I don’t know… It just doesn’t feel right. And I definitely don’t have groupies. No, the evening always ends with me and my friend in my hotel room watching romantic comedies going, ‘We’re never getting married.’”
This was fun.
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“Woke up at noon and headed to Chelsea Market in a white short-sleeve Petit...”
– Lola.
August 2011
1 post
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June 2011
12 posts
“I’ll get my metrosexual groove on and fabulous it up, then.”
– Today in amazing emails from my step-dad.
“It ought to make us feel ashamed when we talk like we know what we’re talking...”
– Raymond Carver. Also, read this.
“Finally—and perhaps this is all I need to say—Maine has an L.L. Bean outlet*...”
– “Portland, ME: A Small City with Big Eats,” Jauntsetter (via angelawublog)
May 2011
1 post
“Feeling sorry, as I trust you will sadly learn, is something of a habit of mine....”
– Funny, sad, sweet. And true. John Hodgman on being an only child.
April 2011
3 posts
Your Blinded Hand →
Suppose that
everything that greens and grows
should blacken in one moment, flower and branch.
I think that I would find your blinded hand.
Suppose that your hand and mine were lost among numberless cries
in a city of fire when the earth is afire,
I must still believe that I would find your blinded hand.
Through flames everywhere
consuming earth and air
I must believe that somehow, if...
“My advice for young female writers would be to shoot high and not cower.”
– Jennifer Egan, in the Wall Street Journal, just minutes after winning the Pulitzer. (via anaees) (via angelawublog)
March 2011
2 posts
February 2011
5 posts
“The only thing that I’ve heard is if you take a plastic bottle and put it in the...”
– Maine Governor Paul LePage, trying to explain the effects of the chemical BPA. (via motherjones)
Dear, sweet, lovely, Maine. You’re so screwed.
“We want the tippy-top of what we can get—why shouldn’t we? And we want to push...”
– The Plight of the Single Lady (via villagevoice)
“i thank You God for most this amazing
day: for the leaping greenly spirits...”
– just. lovely.
January 2011
8 posts
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“Worship power, you will end up feeling weak and afraid, and you will need ever...”
– DAVID FOSTER WALLACE, IN HIS OWN WORDS | More Intelligent Life (via drinkyourjuice)
December 2010
13 posts
“I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is. I only...”
– Journalist Rebecca West, 1913 (via Slaughterhouse 90210)
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“For your writing to be great—I mean great, not clever, or even brilliant, or...”
– An Inspirational Letter to My Students (via Instapaper)
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“It’s tempting to take comfort in generalisations, and I have. I see myself...”
– Envy, by Kathryn Chetkovich.
Watchkryanjones:
Newsweekers Drink Moonshine
We all know that Newsweek is going through hard times, but how does the staff get by? We do a story about moonshine, of course! We organized a taste-testing of “legal moonshines,” which, though oxymoronic, is the latest trend in hipster drinking. This is why journalism and alcoholism both end the same way.
“Just keep working as long as you can’t think of anything else you could...”
– Stephen Colbert (via)