i think i'm having a midlife crisis.



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William Boyd coined the term zemblanity to mean somewhat the opposite of serendipity: "making unhappy, unlucky and expected discoveries ( Read more... )

when someone you love has terminally lost perspective (betrayed or abused or neglected past hope of recovery), you could say he's "gone viral". there are exceptions, but standard operating procedure for viruses is ( Read more... )

it was in the early morning hours
when i fell into a phone call
believing i had supernatural powers
i slammed into a brick wall
i said hey, is this my problem?
is this my fault?
if that's the way it's going to be
i'm going to call the whole thing to a halt

you don't feel you could love me
but i feel you could

"we're all fucked. it helps to remember that."
~george carlin

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"we drank store-brand gin with fresh lime juice out of plastic cups or straight from the bottle and we spread ourselves out face-up on the wooden floors. an aerial view of us might have suggested that we'd been knocked out, but what we were doing was staking our claim. establishing our territories. making good. not on the vows we'd made but on the ( Read more... )

1. not looking forward to tonight's insomniacal angst or tomorrow's work. meetings are time dying, its leg caught in a steel trap and i find myself unable to gnaw through the bone ( Read more... )

i just got caught in a sudden and blinding rainstorm and got drenched, waterlogged, soaked to the skin. it felt very cathartic.

maybe losing something that you love
is a blessing in disguise
you've been their slave for far too long
it's time to say goodbye

there is a girl in new york city
who calls herself the human trampoline
and sometimes when i'm falling, flying
or tumbling in turmoil i say
oh so this is what she means

she means we're bouncing into graceland