"It takes a thoroughly good woman to do a thoroughly stupid thing."
-- Oscar Wilde, “Lady Windermere's Fan”

i deserve everything i (didn't) get

passion percolating under an orange rind ( Read more... )

i've been sitting alone drinking beer and eating ben & jerry's out of the tub.

and so?

i think depression hits a new low when it doesn't even feel depressing.

my three year old brother knows how to play pinball on the computer. i have no idea how to start a new game; he looks at me and says, "you need to press F2."

like, duh. which unnerves me. i finally persuade him to play outside, like in those good old days of my childhood (god, two decades!). we hit golf balls awhile, but, since i'm the one with ( Read more... )

it's baffling how many gre vocabulary words are synonyms for slander/criticism/verbal abuse. and accordingly how many words we have in the english language for that kind of shit. we're awful, mean, (acerbic, acidulous, acrimonious...) people with our panties all atwist, and we want you to know about it ( Read more... )

ironic how i received my new dell Inspiron B130, Intel Pentium notebook on the day we find out THEY'VE BEEN COMBUSTING IN FLAMES. i'm afraid of fire! i don't want FIRE coming from my COMPUTER ( Read more... )

death, beauty!

splenetic

inchoate

vituperative

runcible spoon

fuck. you.

last night i wrote my first-ever sestina, one because the blank verse sonnets and syllabic poems are getting a bit boring and two because i admit its really not fair to hate sestinas just because of That Girl In Senior Comp Who Wrote All Those Sestinas ( Read more... )

"Poe is a bad poet, a poor critic, and a dreadful prose stylist in his celebrated tales."

"Pound's** major poetic work is The Cantos, which seem to me to anthologize badly, nor do I have much esteem for them, or for Pound, whether as a person or poet ( Read more... )