March 2012
Anonymous asked: I'm not a TASPlicant; I'm just a person. What made you think I was a TASPlicant?
Anonymous asked: Yeah, Sarah Lawrence College. I was just curious. You're very impressive!
Anonymous asked: Do you go to SLC or NYU or Columbia or something else?
February 2012
I want to figure out what was so perfect, why nothing can be that comfortable anymore, how it was able to achieve that kind of feeling, when I will be that sincere again.
These are some of the things I’ve learned today:
Julia Hirschberg*, computer science professor at Columbia, originally received a PhD in “sixteenth-century Mexican social history” and taught history before becoming interested in computation
The word ‘influenza’ looks a lot like the word “influence” for a reason: it was thought that people got sick...
Do your FAFSA.
So I logged on to Netflix to check out which Portuguese-language movies are available for streaming since I have to watch one for class when I check my “recommended” movies list and find the title “Being Elmo” in there.
Apparently, it’s a documentary on, yeah, “Being Elmo.” The other recommendations included “critically-acclaimed foreign”...
According to Wikipedia, Buckminster Fuller “was expelled from Harvard twice: first for spending all his money partying with a vaudeville troupe, and then, after having been readmitted, for his ‘irresponsibility and lack of interest.’ “
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WatchJennine Capo Crucet reads the title story out of “How to Leave Hialeah.”
“Ask the RA what time the dorm closes for the night and play it off as a joke when she starts laughing. Admit to no one that you left Hialeah in large part to piss off a boy whose last name you will not remember in ten years.
Go to the beach even though it’s sixty degrees and the water is freezing...
Bret from Flight of the Conchords won an Oscar tonight?
Righteous.
a short story
It’s mango season again when the chopped fish heads remind Nora of him. Their rubbery dead eyes look nowhere under her fingers as she slices away the day’s catch. She pauses periodically to move her jangling bracelets up her arm or to slide her sweaty bangs to the left with a deft jerk of the wrist or an awkward wiggle of the forearm. She shifts her weight and slashes with the grace of habit...
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“Our thoughts are shackled by the familiar. The brain is a neural tangle of near...”
– Jonah Lehrer, Why We Travel (via apidae)
When you meet someone you think is cool and you introduce him/her to something you think is cool, a book or a band or a movie or whatever, and then it becomes something that he or she not only checked out & enjoyed but that he or she pursued further and allowed to become a part of his or her personality in a way that it already was for you, in a way independent of you —that’s one...
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il ya longtemps que je t'aime
Saudade’s a word I knew before I understood, and I understood years before I’d begin to learn its language. It’s Portuguese for longing, yearning, desire, nostalgia. If it had a flavor it’d be tamarind. If it had a color it’d be a stinging pale orange like a faded version of the red sand in my mind’s southwestern landscapes. If it sung, it’d sound like...
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“The nostalgic desires to obliterate history and turn it into private or...”
– Svetlana Boym, “The Future of Nostalgia” (via whenbearleftbear)
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In the 17th century nostalgia was considered to be a curable disease, akin to the common cold. Swiss doctors believed that opium, leeches, and a journey to the Swiss Alps would take care of nostalgic symptoms.
—- Svetlana Boym “The Future of Nostalgia”
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“ It’s a good thing I don’t like spinach, because if I did I’d have to eat it, and I can’t stand the stuff. It’s the same with you, only backwards.”
-Ferdinand in Pierrot Le Fou
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Taking great leaps of syllogistic faith or...
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You can almost walk inside of my room.
This is unreal.