March 2012
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There’s nothing better than finding out a paper you wrote was rejected for a prize that you were wholly unaware it had been submitted for.
Mar 1st
February 2012
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Experiencing whatever the opposite of Reaganing is.
Feb 29th
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We played the Newlywed Game at staff meeting...
Question: What would your partner bring to a desert island? Coworker’s answer: Feminism? She would bring feminism? And probably a guitar. Question: Who would your partner bring back from the dead? Coworker’s answer: Someone socialist. Marx or Lenin would be too easy… Eugene Debs, you would bring back Eugene Debs.
Feb 29th
Feb 29th
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ListenI Might Be Wrong - Radiohead
Feb 29th
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Feb 29th
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Too drunk for a Tuesday. Too drunk for a Tuesday. Too drunk for a Tuesday.
Feb 29th
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WatchWatch
Have to Explode
Feb 29th
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First cover letter and resume of the season sent...
PAY ME, PUBLISHING INTERNSHIPS, PLEASE PAY ME.
Feb 29th
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Feb 29th
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whiskeyrobot replied to your photo: I’m still mulling this movie over and trying to… please let me know what you think because I have only heard bad things about this one but I am in limbo with it on my netflix queue. I think it might be worth watching solely to be familiar with the “quintessential mumblecore film” that I’ve been listening to everyone talk about for two...
Feb 28th
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Feb 28th
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Anonymous asked: I don't care if you don't like my books; I don't write them for you. I write them in the memory of my dear, overrated friend who made up more lies in his non-fiction than upper-middle class housewives make up to disguise how disappointed they are by their relationships with their war-profiteer sons. I am the only person that truly understood his sadness, because I understand all...
Feb 28th
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Feb 27th
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Feb 27th
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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.
Feb 27th
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Feb 27th
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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...
Feb 27th
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Feb 27th
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“I have an academic question to ask: if there was a store called Small &...”
– :( :( :(
Feb 26th
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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.
Feb 25th
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Feb 25th
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Feb 25th
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Feb 24th
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No one's ever allowed back into my house so that I...
Feb 24th
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ListenI’ll Believe In Anything - Wolf Parade
Feb 24th
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pathological insistence that I have no physical...
Feb 23rd
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Feb 23rd
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“Remember how on Six Feet Under there was, like, the funeral home conglomerate...”
– Oh mom.
Feb 23rd
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To the openly gay Lutheran minister who came to...
You have melted my cold, cold heart.
Feb 22nd
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Feb 21st
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46 Things to Read and See for David Foster... →
Feb 21st
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Feb 21st
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ListenI Want You - Pulp Wait, does not everyone have an...
Feb 21st
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Feb 21st
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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!”
Feb 20th
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Feb 20th
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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.
Feb 20th
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ListenPortions for Foxes - Rilo Kiley There’s...
Feb 20th
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Defying all logic and reason, a crises devoid evening.
Feb 19th
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Feb 18th
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“Well, you never know when you might need ‘em because everyone...”
– George Harrison, on leaving five ukuleles with Tom Petty
Feb 18th
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My ex-step-dad really needs to stop relaying loved ones’ deaths via text message.
Feb 18th
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Feb 18th
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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
Feb 18th
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ListenWhere Does The Good Go - Tegan & Sara
Feb 18th
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Feb 17th
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“Most days I can ignore the hideous stench of the present day segregation that...”
– Helena Andrews - XOJane
Feb 16th
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