December 2009
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“Note to self re: being The Fonz—Mark, you are not The Fonz.”
– Mark Corrigan
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“Love is the irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.”
– mis-attributed to Mark Twain (via kari-shma) (via quote-book), this one actually came from Robert Frost, I’m pretty sure.
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This Christmas iTunes giftcard is burning a hole...
but I can’t seem to think of any specific albums I’ve been wanting to buy—any recommendations of pretty recently released albums that would be worth my (parents’) money?
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It’s just a formality Why must I explain?...
Someone make me stop singing "Merry Christmas,...
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but for now let me say,
without hope or agenda…just because it’s Christmas (and at Christmas you tell the truth)
to me, you are perfect. and my wasted heart will love you until you look like this…
Merry Christmas.
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Life in Reception pt. 1--my conversation with...
Receptionist: Are you coming in to the office tomorrow?
Lawyer: I have an appearance downtown--so I have to go argue with people. At 8:30 in the morning. On Christmas Eve.
Receptionist: That's festive!
Lawyer: Yeah, when I put it that way, it really is, isn't it?
“A woman without a man cannot meet a man, any man, of an age, without thinking,...”
– Doris Lessing in The Golden Notebook (via predatorywaspobserver)
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Just added FormSpring
You know, should you ever feel inclined to tell/ask me something…
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“Do the thing you fear most
and the death of fear is certain.”
– Mark Twain
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Ah, academia →
A link to the Google doc of my final Shakespeare paper, analyzing the playwrights attitude towards and usage of theatre and deception in Hamlet—my professor was a fan, but I still wish I had taken a little more time (ie not waited til the night before it was due) to flesh out some of the really interesting questions raised by my research.
Also, I managed to work Rosencrantz &...
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Do Nothing but Read Day
proustianmemory:
incipit:
Found this cool event named “Do Nothing but Read Day” scheduled for Sunday, December 20th.
All details on the donothingbutreadday blog Event flyer here (.pdf)
via LibraryThing
Oh yes, I will be there in my footie pajamas.
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“Anyone whose goal is “something higher” must expect someday to...”
– Milan Kundera
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“Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything...”
– Erica Jong, Fear of Flying
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Footie pajamas: cheaper (& cuter) than installing...
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Illuminated tumbling
HOA. These drop caps are outrageously cool. Typographer/designer Jessica Hische is posting a new glorious illustrated drop cap every day—check out the rest of her stuff here.
According to two recent studies, in Britain and...
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“What I want is to be needed. What I need is to be indispensable to somebody. Who...”
– Chuck Palahniuk, Choke (via thoughtsdetained)
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One word (so little time) →
Pola[d]roids →
(It’s almost enough to make me less sad that they stopped making actual Polaroid film)
you don't think about this as much as I do (could...
and you, who love (loved?) me can be so much more cruel than I ever knew.
“How many loved your moments of glad grace,
And loved your beauty with love...”
– William Butler Yeats, “When You Are Old”
Kurt Vonnegut's 8 Rules for Writing Fiction
Use the time of a total stranger in such a way that he or she will not feel the time was wasted.
Give the reader at least one character he or she can root for.
Every character should want something, even if it is only a glass of water.
Every sentence must do one of two things — reveal character or advance the action.
Start as close to the end as possible.
Be a sadist. Now matter how sweet...
