The Wikipedia page "List of City Nicknames in Colorado" includes:

Arvada: Celery Capital of the World
Brush: Brush!
Fairplay: The Real South Park
Fruita: Home of Mike the Headless Chicken
Greeley: Sayyid Qutb's Sodom and Gomorrah
Nederland: Home of the Frozen Dead Guy

So you can see why I'm really excited to be permanently back in this state.

Confession: I am terribly lonely and ready to come home. Traveling is wonderful but traveling alone is perhaps not the best thing for me because I can't talk to people I JUST CAN'T DO IT why why why. Like everything else in my life for the past two years, this makes me wonder what I'll do when going back to Colorado and pretending I'm still in ( Read more... )

Overheard yesterday: "I'm a nymphomaniac, but I'm also an herbivore. So I don't know."
What dilemma do you think this could possibly refer to? Lack of energy for sexual activity due to protein deficiency? Attempt to seduce someone who really, really loves steak? Barbecue-themed orgy? I just don't know why those two principles would ever

By the time you swear you're his,
Shivering and sighing,
And he vows his passion is
Infinite, undying,
Lady, make a note of this -
One of you is lying.

--Dorothy Parker

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Things that will help you get through six hours of selling condoms and chocolate to pretty much every couple in central Texas, should you ever find yourself in that ( Read more... )

Question: Is it possible to write a six-page paper about how this ( Read more... )

I have to go back to Austin very soon. Thinking about it makes me want to throw a kicking, screaming tantrum. I DON'T WANNA ( Read more... )

Writers do not write what they want, they write what they can. When I was 21 I wanted to write like Kafka. But, unfortunately for me, I wrote like a script editor for The Simpsons who'd briefly joined a religious cult and then discovered Foucault. Such is life.
-Zadie Smith

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It is distressingly normal for me to go entire days without human interaction in any form. It is also distressingly normal for me to spend totally unjustifiable portions of my day fucking around on the internet. (I can't leave the computer, because I'm TRYING to write an essay, but the ratio of work time to facebook/blogs/webcomics/random ( Read more... )

This is so amazing:
http://nymag.com/news/features/artifact/51814/
Excerpts from profiles on an Ayn Rand based dating site, including two people who claim to never kiss someone who doesn't "deserve" them. Ohhh man.

Also, my dad made a music video!

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