I've been reading Merriam-Webster's Dictionary religiously lately. Every time I see/hear a word I can't define within a moment of thought gets written down in my notebook. It's beginning to be a problem, it's my holy grail along with its sister, the Thesaurus, the glorious treasure chest of syntaxical (is that a word?) plesaure ( Read more... )

Suzanne takes you down to her place near the river ( Read more... )

"I had no song in my repertoire for commercial radio anyway. Songs about debauched bootleggers, mothers that drowned their own children, Cadillacs that only got five miles to the gallon, floods, union hall fires, darkness and cadavers at the bottom of rivers wheren't for radiophiles. There was nothing easygoing about the folk songs I sang. They ( Read more... )

Hunter S. Thompson shot & killed himself ( Read more... )

From the slick-tongued and quasi-feminazi Maureen Dowd of the NYTimes ( Read more... )

Sometimes we regret our failure to write about things that really interest us. The reason we fail is probably that to write about them would prove embarrassing. The things that interested us during the past week, for example, and that we were unable or unwilling to write about (things that stand out clear as pictures in our head) were: the look ( Read more... )

I need post-it notes. Right now I think that post-its are a staple in my life along with my 0.38 black uni-ball gel RT ink pens. Not only do they lead to good handwriting, but they almost make you feel like whatever you're writing is epic. Like if you used a different pen, those exact thoughts wouldn't make it to the paper, let alone even into ( Read more... )

It's funny how much you notice when there school isn't a factor. When class isn't something that weighs on your time. my only goals for the next 6 months are 1)to find a decent paying job and 2) to meet more people.

There they are, hold me to it
, or personal permission to kick my ass.

or another ( Read more... )

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