February 2012
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Trying to figure out why Franzen’s manipulative use of unyielding sadness makes me furious versus why Wallace’s “The Depressed Person” makes me cry cry cry for 27 pages and love him even more.
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“It was better to work hard and see nobody. Life, in her experience, had a kind...”
– Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections
I think I’ve figured out that The Corrections makes me so angry because of how terribly shitty it makes me feel. It’s just a long narrative of shitty people doing shitty things that makes me feel like I should be projecting my shitty insecurities onto...
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“I have an academic question to ask: if there was a store called Small &...”
– :( :( :(
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After two years of owning my leather jacket, it was only last night that I realized that it has pockets. This is the closest thing to a religious experience as I have ever had.
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No one's ever allowed back into my house so that I...
I’ll Believe In Anything - Wolf Parade
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pathological insistence that I have no physical...
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“Remember how on Six Feet Under there was, like, the funeral home conglomerate...”
– Oh mom.
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To the openly gay Lutheran minister who came to...
You have melted my cold, cold heart.
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46 Things to Read and See for David Foster... →
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I Want You - Pulp
Wait, does not everyone have an...
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There's nothing like watching Jesse Pinkman try to...
“What do you mean my brain needs these chemicals to function properly? It’s much more important that my mother have the satisfaction of sending her eldest daughter off to college without any sort of chemical dependencies!”
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Cheever, Carver, Coover:
I HAVE READ ALL OF YOU AND AM DOOMED TO NEVER REMEMBER WHICH WHITE MALE EXPERIMENTAL SHORT FICTION WRITER IS WHICH.
Portions for Foxes - Rilo Kiley
There’s...
Defying all logic and reason, a crises devoid evening.
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“Well, you never know when you might need ‘em because everyone...”
– George Harrison, on leaving five ukuleles with Tom Petty
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My ex-step-dad really needs to stop relaying loved ones’ deaths via text message.
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“I AM NOT ‘THE GIRL IN THE BAND,’ I AM JUST IN THE BAND. IT IS NOT A...”
– things I end up shouting at my mother with a fair amount of frequency
Where Does The Good Go - Tegan & Sara
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“Most days I can ignore the hideous stench of the present day segregation that...”
– Helena Andrews - XOJane
maxim: "A day in which one has to read the...
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“I’ve known your mom longer than Dave [her husband] has and for some reason...”
– Happy Valentine’s Day from my boyfriend
“If the movie ended there — if it became a problem of distance, both figurative...”
– Love and Annie Hall - Splitsider
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Calling out of work for tomorrow because I foresee...
Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!
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“-As their inferior function, Feeling can be a weak point; when threatened they...”
– sometimes when I’m feeling particularly anxious, I like to read the Wikipedia page for my Myers-Briggs personality type because I find it soothing that there is some sort of cognitive explanation for my behavior
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