May 2012
1 post
April 2012
2 posts
March 2012
2 posts
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.
