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I want to see 500 Days of Summer so badly. Or maybe I just have the misconception that I am very much like Zooey Deschanel. In any case, the trailer gave me shivers ( Read more... )

He lies first, says the swollen eye's from play-fighting. Look at me, she says, take your sunglasses off. When he does, he looks in the mirror, looks away, replaces the glasses. The eye is nearly swollen shut, she's seen, she blinks a thousand times for strength, focuses on traffic lights. What are you afraid of, he asks, and she says, I'm afraid ( Read more... )

what do you call the feeling of homesickness when you are home?

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I'm more interested in the fact that the house of representatives passed a climate change bill than I am in the death of Michael Jackson.  Of course, i will never forget where I was when i heard that he died - sitting in a slowly filling auditorium in Amherst, reading Bruno Schulz, slightly sunburned.  The ( Read more... )

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The past few days have been comprised of cool mornings followed by surprisingly hot mid-afternoons. today i danced alone until sweat poured off me and people started entering the upstairs studio to set up their table tennis club. i am taken back, taken aback by the scent of onion grass, mothballs, cat piss, lilacs, another Pittsburgh summer. in ( Read more... )

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 Do any of you have www.goodreads.com accounts? if so, befriend me! I'd love to know what books are in your universe.

I just got Denis Johnson's Jesus' Son in the mail on Monday evening - Monday night baby-sat for Terrance Hayes' kids & read the whole thing again in 2 hours, while T & Y were out seeing Charles D'Ambrosio. (That's always how it ( Read more... )