January 2012
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Ghost of a Chance - Adrienne Rich
You see a man trying to think. You want to say to everything: Keep off! Give him room! But you only watch, terrified the old consolations will get him at last like a fish half-dead from flopping and almost crawling across the shingle almost breathing the raw, agonizing air till a wave pulls it back blind into the triumphant sea.
December 2011
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Finished with applications. Happy Boxing Day to me!
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Animal - Jenny and Johnny
Show your teeth to...
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Only my books anoint me, and a few friends, those who reach into my veins.
Anne Sexton, from The Witch’s Life.
“The thing is, it’s patriarchy that says men are stupid and monolithic and...”
– On claiming to be a stupid man who doesn’t know anything « Zero at the Bone
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Moscow, Autumn '88 - Michael Attie
I’m the lazy poet Who needs to fall in love In order to write anything. It’s a crazy world - There’s too much beauty Or not enough. Either way, The pain seems inescapable. Park benches make the best Zendo. Far superior to black cushions and blank walls. This is what the heart looks like. There are people passing through, flocks of pigeons, nannies with strollers, old men sharing...
Smoke Screening →
Charles C. Mann writes about airport security.
“It’s infuriating,” he said, waving my fraudulent boarding pass to indicate the mass of waiting passengers, the humming X-ray machines, the piles of unloaded computers and cell phones on the conveyer belts, the uniformed T.S.A. officers instructing people to remove their shoes and take loose change from their pockets....
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oh god it’s wonderful to get out of bed and drink too much coffee and smoke too many cigarettes and love you so much
Frank O’Hara (from “Steps”)
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Kim Jong-Un Privately Doubting He's Crazy Enough... →
theatlantic:
Nobody does breaking news like The Onion. NOBODY.
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“I was never aware of any other option but to question everything.”
– Noam Chomsky (via warriorsrise)
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Basia Bulat - Gold Rush
You saw the light of...
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And that’s four applications down.
Next up: NYU. Which wants a Statement of Purpose half the length of my other statements, but a writing sample twice as long as my other samples. Why?!
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Eastmountainsouth - Hard Times
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1) House-sit for my landlord in return for a month’s rent.
2) Spend all this month’s rent money on books and renewing my Economist subscription.
Thug life.
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“The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so...”
– Bertrand Russell
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At least one person is dead and a second victim... →
Be aware.
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Kathryn Schulz - Don't Regret Regret →
“The point isn’t to live without any regrets. The point is to not hate ourselves for having them. The lesson that I ultimately learned from my tattoo and that I want to leave you with today is this: we need to learn to love the flawed, imperfect things that we create, and to forgive ourselves for creating them. Regret doesn’t remind us that we did badly. It reminds us that we...
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“Writers tend to work early in the morning, or late at night, when brains are...”
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Scott Adams
Preach. I am useless in the afternoon.
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from Jon Paul Fiorentino, "I'm Pulling for Your...
The ATM looks lovely tonight if you believe in the word lovely You kill an adjective and then The word lovely wakes you up at 4pm and says You sleep too much you drink too long