January 2012
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December 2011
48 posts
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“man engram for a guy with a james joyce tattoo your musical choices are...”
– Nicole, on hearing The Weeknd’s “Wicked Games” and Jamie Woon’s remix of “Video Games” from my Christmas 2k11 mixtape.
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I’ve enjoyed Portlandia for the past day but in the third episode where Aimee Mann finds the Sarah McLachlan piñata I choked on my beef tenderloin.
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“Love is not about power.”
– Gloria Steinham
Long live:
Civil rights; J.C. Chandor; Welsh corgis; sweaters; thrift stores; lakes; Charles Mills; Totoro; museums; sonnets; west Canada; sausage balls; mimosas; All Things Considered; bikram; tattoos.
Down with:
Capitalism; MFA programs; power steering; Highway 78; free chips and salsa; impatience; Disney channel; soul patches; NTCs; golf; cream sauces; slow violence; pleats.
“I dabbled in being a bitch.”
– Ramona, from “Scott Pilgrim”
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2011, Boa noite
Nicole just sent me a swell e-mail about Gravity’s Rainbow and some essays from the most recent Pushcart winners, yesterday at an office Christmas lunch party I met a receptionist and law school student in Birmingham who eschewed applying to Poetry MFA programs for a JD (the actualization of something I can only call a “Poet-Bro” was super cool), and last night—over some...
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What I wrote in my Christmas card type things (getting internationally shipped tomorrow, to those recently birthdayed in Spain and wisdom-teeth-less in Denmark) for the sake of brevity: ‘Thanks for being excellent always.’
What I had written originally that I erased because I thought it was too long, saccharine, honest and dramatic: “Life is difficult; a kind of morning bully...
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“What a supremely minor thing! A button that says “like.” But what...”
– Kyle Beachy, from The Point
“And you think it makes you a fraud, the tiny fraction anyone else ever sees? Of...”
– Oblivion - David Foster Wallace (via blackbirdwithani)
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“When you are a kid, you don’t yet know that a secret, like an animal, can...”
– Karen Russell, Swamplandia!
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“One must have a mind of winter
To regard the frost and the boughs
Of the...”
– “The Snow Man” by Wallace Stevens
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If you're interested, I'm live-tweeting my seminar...
Don’t you wanna know about social space and production?! And the Southern sociograph, and the permeability + fluidity of what I’m calling ‘geo-racial’ boundaries with reference to 19th century conceptions of “the country” and “the town”?!
Reblog if your secret intellectual fantasy at one point or still does involve getting cuddly with a reinstated Edward Said.
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“Reading is in fact extremely interactive from a neurological point of view. Your...”
– Margaret Atwood (via austinkleon)
“I hate when the food is gone.”
– Casey, while tonguing her breakfast quinoa
Ulysses is ruled not obscene — History.com This... →
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“I don’t like to mix my Renaissance with moans and bad sex.”
– Professor Scott Oldenburg, on the Tudors
“Metafictionists may have had aesthetic theories out the bazoo, but they were...”
– David Foster Wallace, A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again (via twinkling-and-remote)
(O-E)^2
Expectations for tonight after landing:
Come home, eat quickly, read remaining Candido, work on Faulker paper, work on portfolio revisions and do some exercises in my Portuguese workbook.
Observations from tonight after landing:
Entered apartment, ate a cookie, immediately killed a bottle with the roommates, opened another bottle we’re drinking now, getting (well, no, got drunk) and going...
“(as we are all of us self-inaccessible and can, for example, touch parts of one...”
– The Pale King, David Foster Wallace
“I had my first orgasm when I was six, in ballet class.”
– A female character in About Schmidt, overheard when I woke up from my (sixth) nap today
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“Don’t let them pathologize you.”
– Gayatri Spivak on the discourse of medicine.