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Michael Chabon on "Faking It"
There is an essential element of the business of being a man: to flood everyone around you in a great radiant arc of bullshit, one whose source and object of greatest intensity is yourself. To behave as if you have everything firmly under control even when you have just sailed your boat over the falls...the trick of being a man is to give the ( Read more... ) -
I'm ok with being unimpressive. I sleep better. (this is, of course, a lie.)
I'm watching Garden State because 1) it's one of those rare nights when I'm sure to laugh more than shrivel up in the big chill of my generational angst (I mean, Zach Braff wearing badly applied eyeliner is funny, right?) and, mostly, 2) because I wanted to watch and listen to Natalie Portman say "I'm an old soul." Then, as the disc was loading, I ( Read more... ) -
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A note from this year's journal: "Write the absolute truth about myself - in 3rd person. TELL THE TRUTH." If I were to undertake such a thing, only in 1st person, it might look something like this:
Something happens in between the whole day long -- during which I think of amusing ways to narrate the present, or mentally compose thoughtful, earnest ( Read more... ) -
my oyster's gotta pearl
So, when Allie and John came up for Mofro, John surprised Allie and I with a themed giftbasket. Get a load of this guy - this 22 year old guy. He fills one of those shopping baskets that are available at the store - (but I'm not kidding, who the hell carries those things? They are awkward, and uncomfortable to boot - to boot!) with a six pack of ( Read more... ) -
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There is nothing like being left alone again, to walk peacefully with oneself in the woods. To boil one's coffee and fill one's pipe, and to think idly and slowly as one does it.
Knut Hamsun -
When I'm in the arms of my dreamy boy, it still makes me weak in the knees.
Just made perfect chicken salad and ate it with white dinner rolls. Man, I (have been known to) get snobby about my whole grains, but there is something about a white dinner roll. Seriously, is a whole-grain dinner roll good for anything besides breaking the lower-left window pane of a front door when you've locked yourself out?
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I want to try to read Searching for God Knows What so I can make it to book club tomorrow; I want to write all the letters that are in my head. But I fought to stay awake during church tonight in the face of a compelling sermon, and noticed my hands shaking afterwards while I womanned the bookstore. I've eaten microwaved palak paneer with naan ( Read more... ) -
Not Today, You Don't
The air was full of poetry today -
The atmosphere was thick with it.
Themes hung heavy and clung to my skin,
and weaved outlines between the door frames.
It grazed my ear with suggestion,
it raised the hair on my neck with possibility,
and just once: it alighted on the green
of a lemon tree. Sidelong,
I glimpsed the sun on its back.
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rejected facebook status, vol. 3
Lauren Henderson wonders at what point the glass becomes superfluous.
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"Mad people were strangely attracted to Dickens." Peter Ackroyd