February 2010
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Theory!
magicmolly:
The awkwardness that arises when you meet a new person (socially) comes from the fact that you don’t yet have a little mental list of their acknowledged funny/weird qualities and tastes to use as a basis for humor. And vice versa.
December 2009
3 posts
November 2009
19 posts
“You employ stone, wood, and concrete, and with these materials you build houses...”
– Le Corbusier
Susceptible
More and more, I am becoming receptive to sparse, sharp styles.
Adieu, long-winded prose!
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"[Pattinson's] eyebrows, like muskrats determined... →
— Nancy Gibbs on Peter Weitz’s New Moon (19 Nov 2009, TIME Magazine)
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Russia! the musical →
“Georgia Slams Putin With Syntactically Iffy Disco Routine” (Katya Tylevich)
in class
A: So is "frolicking" a 'social' activity?
B: It is, if you count my imaginary friends.
A: Like... ?
B: -- Fairies? I dunno... What else would you encounter in the woods?
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“Last Thanksgiving, my cousin told us he was a model. Then we found his Myspace...”
– K. J.
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In the late, bleak-lit afternoons, I walked around the city. I walked uptown, a forced-revisit of my old neighborhood when the train, Barnard-and-Columbia-bound, stopped a full half-mile short.
Entire blocks of the neighborhood were unrecognizable. Gone was the neighborhood butcher whose portly, pot-bellied owner doled out free slices of Bologna. In the 10-year-or-so interim a Turkish cafe had...
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“We throw our parties; we abandon our families to live alone in Canada; we...”
– Michael Cunningham
mini bookshelf on display
A few things bought at The Strand:
Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams (Sylvia Plath)
The Best American Unrequired Reading 2009
Today I Wrote Nothing (Daniil Kharms)
Cities of the Interior (Anais Nin)
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Patience is a virtue,
Modeling is an art.
Sit still, look ahead, don’t grimace, smile or blink. Don’t even try to move.
Rough edges are smoothed away as your face emerges on each page in shades of black, white, grey.
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I can't believe today
I woke up in New York.
I’m not there anymore, but I can still hear the city hum with life. Walking along asphalt paths. Beneath traffic lights. Above subway grates. Licking gelato from Chinatown through SoHo, to Union Square.
From the 6 station to Penn Station to Providence, I took my words with me when I left.
My book-and-shoe-and-toothpaste-crammed suitcase lurched along the tracks...
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My inner eye is open now
For the first time in the three-and-something years since last falling asleep on the mat, I attended yoga. I called my sister up to ask what I need to wear. She advised, “Like what you would wear when going to the gym.” This description didn’t exactly help: I followed my impulse and wore gold flats and a cerulean scarf with shorts and sweats.
If I had gone with my first...
I love November.
October 2009
8 posts
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Your dentist is excited too
It’s been an excruciatingly busy month and lo and behold, we’ve reached the end of October. Congratulations folks. Go celebrate by bothering your neighbors and gorging your sweet tooth on candy corn. You’ve earned it.
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“Peter was a great outdoorsman — the Sarah Palin of his time. He, too, could see...”
– today’s Soviet Studies lecture
it's Free-Hug Friday
Some days feel just like this.
“On the day they were going to kill him, Santiago Nasar got up at five-thirty in the morning to wait for the boat the bishop was coming on. He’d dreamed he was going through a grove of timber trees where a gentle drizzle was falling, and for an instant he was happy in his dream, but when he awoke he felt completely spattered with bird shit.”
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez, A...
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"If President Obama really had to get a gift... →
“Obama’s Nobel surprise” (The New Yorker, Oct 19, 2009)
Hello! ...& other introductions
I’m starting a new tumblog because I hope plan to be out of the country next semester and this is the easiest way I can think of (other than my unused Facebook) to stay in touch. I’ll update this thing — in the library, with my feet up and my shoes off, pretending to do work — semi-frequently (e.g. on most weekdays) and most of my typing will be via my tiny iPod Touch or my...