March 2012
23 posts
February 2012
28 posts
Except but how I guess it's important.
Walking from Marie’s to the ATM tonight, I heard a lady behind me say, “But if you’re threatened…” and a guy behind me explode, “LIKE I COULD EVER BE THREATENED BY ONE OF THEM.”
I turned around. Of course I turned around. And when they saw me turn around, they laughed. Having apparently agreed—this man and his douche-wife—that “ONE OF US” was so...
“Actually it seems like social-anthro textbooks leave an awful lot out, to the...”
– This paragraph is not a bad paragraph, on my estimation. First in nine months. At this rate, I’ll be doing an ethnography of Hell before it’s done. sadface
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Matt Mullin: Winners of the Pulitzer Prize in... →
mrmullin:
2008 - Walt Bogdanich and Jake Hooker, The New York Times, for their stories on toxic ingredients in medicine and other everyday products imported from China, leading to crackdowns by American and Chinese officials.
2009 - David Barstow, The New York Times, for his…
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46 Things to Read and See for David Foster... →
thesyllabi:
Yesterday would have been David Foster Wallace’s 50th birthday. To mark the occasion, Carrie Frye rounded up 46 DFW-related things to read on The Awl. There’s some of his best writing online — including his profile of Roger Federer, which I included in my tennis reading list — writing about his childhood, his Kenyon commencement speech from 2005, his own reading recommendations, and...
steverettger replied to your chat: Also from Merrily We Roll Along Alright, one drink. Waiter, a bottle of vodka and a straw.
Hee!
PARTY GUEST. I have to go to bed. MARY. HE’LL WAIT!
Mary is my spirit animal.
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Gee, I wonder if Judith Butler has a Google alert...
HELLO YOU
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Chased a bunch of speed with a few beers.
Now I’m off to have more drinks before watching Judith Butler accept a major award. Expect me to jump up during the Q&A period and ask if she’s ever considered publishing as “Judy Butts.”
Also from Merrily We Roll Along
PARTY GUEST: So, what do you do?
MARY: I drink.
PARTY GUEST: [Laughs politely.] No, what do you REALLY do?
MARY: I REALLY drink.
“He flies off to California
I discuss him with my shrink.
That’s the...”
– Stephen Sondheim, “Franklin Shepard, Inc.,” from Merrily We Roll Along
“The historian is the physician of memory. It is his honor to heal wounds,...”
– Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy
Weird.
Me: Chris Brown just got a fucking Grammy. Jesus.
She: Oh like how people who don't beat women do? That's weird.
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“And poor Jesus, bless ‘im, if he was still in the grave he’d be...”
– Kiki DuRane
delgrosso asked: So, in "The Education of Henry Adams", do you think the passage about his sister's suicide is pretty much the best depiction of death-by-tetanus EVAR, or do you have a better example? Also, what kind of bourbon are you drinking? I am aware that this technically counts as two questions, so shut it.
This is an idiotic post about "process." Do not...
Thesis §4 begins with 900 of the most solid words I have ever written. I wrote them a year ago. Everything I’ve tried to add to them just mars the loveliness of what’s already there. I have honestly no idea how to get over this self-erected hurdle.
shuffstuff asked: How is the new medication working out? And what's the progress report with writing?
yodelmachine asked: WHERE do we GOOOOO frooom heeeeeeeeeeere?!
I would like tonight to be filled with... →
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“Remember that the word psychiatry means ‘healing the soul’, not ‘medicating the...”
– Elio Frattaroli (via psychotherapy)
Dear Shut-Ins and Assorted Bachelorfolk:
The Keurig Elite has a button for a small mug and a button for a large mug. Much as I suspected, the “Large” button dispenses almost exactly enough boiling water for those ramen instant-lunch styrofoam cup dealies.
You’re welcome.
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“To be a dumb gay person is a luxury that was won for you by gay people who came...”
– Dan Savage, from the documentary Making the Boys, about the play/movie The Boys in the Band.
Gay history is so fascinating and so heartbreaking, it’s a shame it isn’t more well known, especially now that there are enough fearless gays and lesbians to tell their stories and the stories of older...