May 2012
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“I feel boring. I feel like, Why is everything so easy for me? I can’t wait for...”
– Kristen Stewart (via goldenfiddle)
Does anyone remember that episode of friends where Adam Goldberg played Chandler’s crazy roommate, Eddie? And Eddie is slowly getting more and more cartoonishly freakish, and there’s this one moment after he does something totally nuts, and then Eddie...
andrewformayor:
ren-is-a-mess:
Scissor Sisters...
The "Will & Grace Effect" →
This is old - nearly 10 years old! - but I’m not sure I’ve seen a lot of research that backs up the hunch that fictional representations of minorities have a positive effect on political positions. This is probably why I should broadly support Glee, even though I find it unwatchable. (In a supportive anecdote, my friend recently said that her tween daughter was discussing with her...
April 2012
11 posts
If you type the words "gay biker" into Google...
…A photo of me with a “gay biker” spider on my shoulder is one of the top image results.
(Note: do not do this search at work.)
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Novel: A Section
One night, I called Big Jeans, and he was breathing heavy. “I think I’m breaking up with my boyfriend,” he said. “We’ve been dating for twelve years and we can’t stop fighting about every small thing.” I tried to say something, but it was hopeless. I was only seventeen. I didn’t have any reason to believe that what I knew was true. Adults were supposed to know what to do. I made soothing sounds....
“At least in for-profit sectors, the goal of most institutions during the...”
– Jonathan Sterne, “What if Interactivity is the New Passivity?” (via marathonpacks)
Very interesting ideas!
Take Control of Your Debt Situation
Sometimes at the admin job I have, one of those spam Make-Debt-A-Thing-Of-The-Past calls comes in. I don’t have to deal with it - the voicemail gets it. But I guess those calls don’t really have an auto-detect for voicemail? Because the calls will just sit there, hogging one of my voicemail lines, blinking away, for two minutes at a time. I can’t hear it, but I figure that if I...
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Fiction/Creative Writing on Tumblr and Twitter
Question: can anyone recommend their favorite tumblrs and twitters that feature great fiction/creative writing? Anything particularly inventive and interesting, and that engages deeply with the form? I already know my favorites, but I’m working on a presentation for a conference, and would appreciate as many examples and suggestions as possible. Thanks!
March 2012
12 posts
Jai Paul - “Jasmine”
Pitchfork is...
“What seems to be the most ubiquitous mistake in Mad Men is so frequent as to be...”
– “The Foreign Language of ‘Mad Men’”
This article has likely been posted a hundred times, but I love this observation.
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That thing where you type "attached" in Microsoft...
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The saddest moment of every week is when the most recent episode of RuPaul’s Drag Race has finished, and I have to wait another week for the next one.
“Now I am quietly waiting for
the catastrophe of my personality
to seem...”
– Frank O’Hara “Mayakovksy”
Iceland considers adopting the Canadian dollar →
Reviser's Block
Because I am a mondo weirdo, I make things difficult for myself. I’ve written 60,000 words and handed them off to my advisor and received them back with notes. It’s all generally positive, and I have the chance to make something I am very proud of. But whenever I open my files to revise, I can’t see a way to make it better. I put words in, and they feel like post-its on a painted...
February 2012
14 posts
“That brings to mind the Douglas Adams quote I’ve mentioned a time or six: “If...”
– I have never read The Easter Parade, but this discussion (Adam Cadre and Colin Marshall, who recommended it) is fantastic nevertheless, even before it gets into the (even better) societal stuff. (via katherinestasaph)
This is pretty much the reason I write, and why I love to read.
WatchWhale - “Hobo Humpin’ Slobo Babe”
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“Now, doesn’t it seem absurd to you? What is the good of the arts if they’re interchangeable? What is the good of the ear if it tells you the same as the eye? Helen’s one aim is to translate tunes into the language of painting, and pictures into the language of music. It’s very ingenious, and she says several pretty things in the process, but what’s gained,...
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I’ve realized that “weird” has become the go-to passive-aggressive insult when you want to mark a thing as something you wish would go away but can’t be bothered (or are afraid) to describe how it offends you.
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Stalking Religion
Heath: Ugh, life.
me: It's bigger!
me: It's bigger than you.
me: And you are not me.
me: How was Stalker? Do you feel suitably stalked?
Heath: Did not go.
Heath: That was just a dream.
Heath: Huh.
Heath: That was just a dream.
January 2012
22 posts
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Approx 60,000 words of my complete thesis first...
Now for revision!
Warning to Cat Owners
My roommate and I have pet his cat so often today that the cat has picked up painful amounts of static electricity. Each stroke brings a shock! Does anyone have a spare Bounce sheet?
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Thirteen Things I've Learned While Writing This...
1. 90% of people I tell this fact to don’t care much. This is true even for people I would think would normally be supportive and interested (family, close friends, fellow writers). And maybe they shouldn’t? I don’t have any hard facts, but I suspect a short list of reasons are the following:
They don’t read, so what’s a novel?
They think novels are an obsolete art...