so you're all doing nano, right? so i have time to bitch about it here, right? actually, bitching about it would mainly include two things - one, why the fuck do these people who write a novel one month a year and DO NOTHING ELSE AS WRITERS EVER exist; two, zombies are not actually automatically funny, they are tragic.


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possibly erroneous transcription of an al green lyric i saw on one of those lyrics sites: "i guess you know that i / uh / love you so"

my life has reached a new low. i have actually managed to reach the second-day nanowrimo word count.

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i met someone the other day who is actually called 'charlie brown'.

so here's an alarmingly self-centred thought process: back last year, when i was doing applications for master's degrees in american literature that i never got around to sending off, my dissertation proposal was on the fizzling-out of postmodernism, and how american fiction struggles, i guess, to deal with keeping a sense of moral seriousness at ( Read more... )

jesus am i getting old. i was plucking my monobrow and one of the hairs was white.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/mar/09/blogs is half a good article: "The world's fifty most powerful blogs". I actually quite like the idea of trying to note which of the ephemeral damn things have any kind of real world impact. Unfortunately, however, ( Read more... )