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snip it
Last night I went to see the Mountain Goats. The best. I wrote about it on my other blog, trying to restrain myself. I only vaguely avoided full on gushing about their brilliance. I adore them. The first time I went to see them I felt a bit left out because there was a large group of pretty boys who shouted their lyrics out as if they were singing ( Read more... ) -
making happy
Don: This is it. This is all there is
Rachel: What?
Don: This is all there is
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selections from my travel notebook
when I'm 50 I'll write retrospectively about these university days. I will write:
in those days all my dresses were hemmed crookedly, because I had no sewing machine & could not bear to wait to wear the 'frocks' I laboriously rescued from secondhand stores.
The sun is shining feebly today, there's not enough warmth for me to be baring skin but the ( Read more... ) -
how do I, how do I, oh how do I read
One thing I feel strongly about as a writer is communication. It's all about communicating stories that you feel are important or beautiful or interesting or funny or sad or brave or scary. Sometimes real life is the best place to find these stories. Sometimes they happen to other people who would just never write about them. Some people might not ( Read more... ) -
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Listening to country music ( Read more... ) -
mortal retrospectives
On the train tonight there was a really drunk skater boy with a feathered headband and he was leaning all over the guy sitting next to him. They weren't on the train together. The drunk skater boy had really orange hair and it was styled like a pirate's. I was trying to read my book, how inappropriate it did seem under the fluoroesence of the metro ( Read more... ) -
desperation
"I despise the false lucidity that comes with age.The truth is that adults are just like everyone else: nothing more than kids who don't understand what has happened to them, acting big and tough when in fact all they want is to burst into tears"
Muriel Barbery, The Elegance of the Hedgehog
One of the real problems with me is that I constantly feel ( Read more... ) -
sweet beautiful
My friend Melissa ( Read more... ) -
memememe, my foot is itchy!
01. What did you do in 2009 that you'd never done before ( Read more... )