January 2012
Happy New Year, snoogers.
December 2011
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the word rape and why you and I should have a...
Guys (a word I like to dispense in the modern gender-neutral totally acceptable way), we need to think about our casual internet exchanges a little bit more deeply. Everything we write, anywhere we write it, is an exercise in how willing we are to follow thoughts along in a logical and informed progression.
I know sometimes you need to talk about newborn cats or joke about the fancy sandals in...
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Tom Waits, Christmas Card From A...
George Harrison, my favorite Beatle:
“One of my favorite stories of George and Olivia is that of some crazy burglar breaking into their home in Friar Park who had stabbed George in the chest repeatedly.
In some insane albeit timely fit of maternal defense, Olivia struck the man with a fireplace poker and then an antique lamp. She beat the shit out of that guy. She saved her man. I love that. Later, Tom Petty sent George a fax...
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Immigration stories always break my heart in the best way. The absolute need to exist in a flawed and foreign place above one’s own native one because of the latter’s deeper restriction of the simplest human experiences is something I don’t know if most people have sat down to think about. There are so many poems layered in the silences of work and re-rooting, so many words...
Facebook is killing it tonight; here is a gem of a status update from a girl I went to high school with:
I had to run away from my little cousin so people wouldn’t know she was with me after she peed in the middle of kmart
My high school English teacher is getting married and her status update was the following:
Highlight of day: my mom flashing the Nordstrom lady her boobs because the lady was trying to assess her bra size…
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In terms of less formal writing, I once went through my aim and GChat logs and cut and pasted some of them into a word document called “IM correspondence with people to whom I am no longer speaking” (let’s just pretend that’s a normal thing to do so that we can move on with the anecdote), and I got to single-spaced page 150 before deciding it was a stupid and tedious project...
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“I spent most of my adolescence hungry in a literal and more deliberate sense, and I think it’s not accidental that I mostly worked through that right around the time I started taking writing seriously. There’s a joke to be made about people prone to addictive and destructive behaviors rarely giving up one such behavior without substituting another, but I prefer to think of it this way: you...
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“What would happen, for instance, if suddenly, magically, men could menstruate...”
– Gloria Steinem (via blacklikemehreen)
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“The most important reason for going from one place to another is to see what’s...”
– Norton Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth (via apidae)
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“You are so young; you stand for beginnings. I would like to beg of you, dear...”
– Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet (via ruefle)
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“Try a thing you haven’t done three times. Once, to get over the fear of doing...”
– Virgil Garnett Thomson (via quote-book)
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Children's Story in Progress:
Once there was a rabbit named Balls. During school, Balls went out in secret.
But one day Balls got busted by his teacher. When she saw Balls drop in surprise at the sight of her, she knew he was guilty. His teacher sent him to the corner saying, “Balls, to the wall!” This made Balls blue.
Someone at the Planetarium Loves Me:
1/6/2012 9:00pm The Beatles: Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band* 10:00pm Pink Floyd: Echoes** 11:00pm Beastie Boys***
* Favorite Beatles album
** Favorite Pink Floyd show they do
*** SUCH a pleasant surprise/rare, but seeing as each show is $8.00, I’m probably going to shell out $16 tops and go to the first two, leaving my night young and already-satisfied.
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What's our deal with the B in LGBTQ?
What’s the deal with the B in LGBTQ?
Last night I was sitting outside of Ferris talking to a few girls in a post-dinner, pre-study buzz that tends to take longer than it should almost every evening. Conversations get heated and dense during this delicate hour, in more an effort to fruitfully evade getting to work than anything else. Any quick look at our faces could tell that this night was...
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“I had to stop myself at this point, for I was becoming obsessed, going overboard...”
– Oliver Sacks, Uncle Tungsten: Memoirs of a Chemical Boyhood (via apidae)
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There is a wisdom that is woe; but there is a woe that is madness. And there is a Catskill eagle in some souls that can alike dive down into the blackest gorges, and soar out of them again and become invisible in the sunny spaces. And even if he for ever flies within the gorge, that gorge is in the mountains; so that even in his lowest swoop the mountain eagle is still higher than other birds upon...
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Majoring in The Occult
If there are religion studies why shouldn’t there be a department focused on studying fringe beliefs? if a ton of schools offer jazz studies and weird design-your-own concentrations, why don’t more people focus on what it is that makes one superstition or series of practices considered occult and another not?
The history of religious and spiritual practices cast-off in a shroud of...
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