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2 new additions to the family of pets that lives in my apartment. now we take care of ( Read more... )

Am considering getting a tattoo with my first paycheck. Not sure where. I'm truly digging this quote from St. Augustine, though. Maybe small on my wrist? I really don't know if I want anything there, though... We shall see ( Read more... )

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1) Are you going to be in New York at all this week?I'm in New York right now, with Davis! We're going to be around until Thursday morning. We'll probably do some museum-hopping, and some cafe-sitting, and some book-reading. Yesterday we spent all day bar-hopping, and wandering around town in search of Doctor Who merch -- Forbidden Planet, ( Read more... )

Daddy leaned over to turn up the volume so we could hear the pained yodel and the whining steel guitar that echoed his nasal wail. Hank sang like a hurt animal. They were the loneliest sounds we had ever heard.

I got a feeling called the blues, oh, Lord ( Read more... )

recurring awake nightmare #2

by John Darnielle

came home from running daily errands
to a dining room in flames:
the warm smell,
and the bright orange light visible through the windows

and me entering the house
in the last moment
of nothing being wrong

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Instructions ( Read more... )

At the end of the day, we live in a world with good food and people we can love and that’s in the ‘win’ column. And it’s a big enough win that no matter how horrible things get, even on a day when I can’t say that I really even believe that, I know it’s true.

J.D.