Looking through my computer b/c I don’t want to take...
Jan 31st
John Updike Week!
Recently, in light of my unemployment and subsequent loss of sanity, I have been quite...
Jan 31st
I'm So Glad I Met You, You're Another...
My horoscope for this week: “You should definitely not attempt to re-route a mighty river...
Jan 30th
Watching White Oleander online: “we visit your...
Jan 30th
Unproductive
I went on Facebook and starting looking at the pictures from a girl I know’s wedding—she...
Jan 28th
What?!
John Updike died! There are/were five Literary Men of New York (limnies, as I like to call them) who...
Jan 28th
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Peter Gabriel and Kate—Don’t Give Up. Aww, Petey, the John of Genesis.
Jan 28th
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If you can watch this without getting a little bit sad, your heart is dead. Dead, I tells ya!
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Jan 28th
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Why is Kate Bush so wonderful? I think her combination of talent and absolute, incredible...
Jan 28th
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A Japanese woman who stole Karen Carpenter’s voice! Through some sort of The Grudge-type...
Jan 27th
This Is Funny (To Me)
After reading stuff about panic disorders from those experts at Wikipedia, I freaked out (of course)...
Jan 27th
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Watching the Detectives circa 1977. “She’s filing her nails while they’re dragging...
Jan 27th
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Latest greatest song of all time.
I hate the internet: it detracts from all my terribly important...
Jan 27th
Teaism
No one is reading this but no one, remember Teaism? Teaism, the Montague Book Mill and the Haymarket...
Jan 24th
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A man stuck in an elevator for 41 hrs. Welcome to my nightmare. I can’t even watch the whole...
Jan 24th
Too Good Not To Share
From Ms Janet Fitch, on writing and uncertainty: But there will always be uncertainty, because...
Jan 21st
My day was far too exciting: so much so that I became...
Jan 21st
Portrait of the Artist as a Young...
Emily Gould wrote quotes from her old paper journals in her new modern journal, which I find...
Jan 20th
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Suzanne Vega Resurgence Evening! Almost as exciting as All Saint’s Day (unofficial) tomorrow....
Jan 20th
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Divorce and your family: fun and easy!
Jan 18th
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Kate McGarrigle and her kiddies Rufus and Martha Wainwright singing Aunt Anna’s “Heart...
Jan 18th
Feeling Strangely Cayce Pollard
We have no idea, now, of who or what the inhabitants of our future might be. In that sense, we have...
Jan 16th
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I’m a bride on fire
Jan 15th
I have been one acquainted with the night. I have walked out...
Jan 15th
re: The Greatest Depression.
I really like this space,...
Jan 14th
Bewitched, Bothered, Bewildered
“If we do not respect ourselves, we are on the one hand forced to despise those who have so...
Jan 12th
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I love this song like nobody’s business—when people say “you ready B?” I all...
Jan 7th
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Ah, Coca-Cola: the only way we can all truly be free. Except for those pesky third-worldigans and...
Jan 7th
Holy shit. (Time to pull out my notes.)
noraleah: I just learned that Brandon Darby — the guy who gave me a tour of the Lower 9th Ward in...
Jan 7th
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During the years when I found it necessary to revise the circutry of my mind I discovered I was no...
Jan 7th
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Condoleeza Rice is trying to break your heart. You know she’d be lying if she said it...
Jan 7th
“Engrave this upon your heart: there isn’t anyone you...”
— —Mary Lou Kownacki I get...
— —Mary Lou Kownacki I get...
Jan 7th
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A staunch character. I am going to make my mother sit down and watch this with me if it’s the...
Jan 7th
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Me. Waiting for someone to say “Okay, let’s go!”
I love that there’s one...
Jan 6th
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Ah, Charlene. You are so wise.
Jan 6th
War Is Over (If You Want It)
Jan 6th
Mad Girl's Pilfered Love Poem
Love the quick profit, the annual raise, vacation with pay. Want more of...
Jan 6th
Coping with American Vertigo
One of the “formative figures” in my life has been Professor Deborah Gewertz, a...
Jan 6th
The Fire You Like So Much
Sometimes I wonder, why bother writing a word when Liz Phair said everything there is to say about...
Jan 5th
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Jan 4th
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The News From Lake Washington: “I hope they don’t find you, Tacoma…”
Good...
Jan 4th
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Damon Albarn does not get his due (well, Graham Coxon, too). Same situation, with boys, a while ago.
Jan 3rd
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Sasha Frere-Jones and a blogger who shall remain nameless both posted this video; the former opining...
Jan 3rd
Thing To Hate: 2009 Edition
This year’s number one thing to hate is…Personal Branding! You must be thinking, why...
Jan 3rd
This also cheers me up. Aw, the president loves his...
Jan 2nd
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“Take a load off, Annie, take a load for free, and you put the load right on me.”
I...
Jan 2nd
“He was a high-tech lecturer, a magician of white screens and...”
— While it is somewhat lame to...
— While it is somewhat lame to...
Jan 2nd
Not even Jo! Stupid, simpering Meg!
I was just on Facebook, damnable Facebook, looking up friends from high school and all the places...
Jan 2nd
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Neko Case is the embodiment of everything that I want to be: complicated, weird, gorgeous,...
Jan 1st