I'm a writer. What does that mean? I am blessed with the fact that my thoughts swarm around like a flock of vultures slowly picking and pulling one another towards death? Being thoughtful is not a blessing, it's a curse. People always think that writers/artists are mad, and then one day they are internationally renown for their 'madness' Please god ( Read more... )

What are friends? Aside from paper cut-outs depicting them as we want them to be?

"There are threads that help you find your way back, and there are threads that intend to bring you back. Mind turns to pull, it's hard to pull away. I'm always thinking of going back. When Lot's wife looked over her shoulder, she turned into a pillar of salt. Pillars hold things up, and salt keeps things clean, but it's a poor exchange for losing ( Read more... )

"You'll get over it...' It's the clichés that cause the trouble. To lose someone you love is to alter your life forever. You don't get over it because 'it' is the person you loved. The pain stops, there are new people, but the gap never closes. How could it? The articularness of someone who mattered enough to grieve over is not made anodyne by ( Read more... )

Dude--
my cat had siamese twins!!!!!!!!!!! They are attached at the stomach!!

They say that anger, resentment, sadness, solidarity, regret and pretentiousness make for the best writing. I don’t think that is true. I think it just constructs something that is more welcomed by the jaded reader. Who wants to read about a love story with a happy ending when we all know it doesn’t happen that way? Who wants to read about happy ( Read more... )

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The problem with political jokes is that they get elected.

Wells School ( Read more... )

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