February 2010
51 posts
Feb 1st
Scrawled in my 15-year-old journal
“How far have you gone with a guy?” “To Duluth.” Sources unknown.
Feb 1st
Feb 1st
January 2010
30 posts
Jan 29th
1 note
Lazy theory
The best terms of endearment are also those that sprout and seed and gather sun: sugar beet, sweet pea, pumpkin.
Jan 28th
Another reason to move to London:
It’s home to The School of Life, whose spring program (ahem, programme) includes classes like: How to be a good friend How the world should be ruled How to think about death How to be alone Also, their shop! “We organise our books not by genre but by problem….[W]e have created a kind of chemist for the mind, where you can find shelves such as ‘how to enjoy your own...
Jan 28th
“Everyone was happier. But where did the sadness go? People wanted to know. They...”
– Matthea Harvey, The Crowds Cheered as Gloom Galloped Away
Jan 28th
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Jan 26th
Signs I Am Approaching Adulthood
Two sets of coordinating bath towels Notes in ink in the margins of books Furnace filter vigilance Heeding laundry labels
Jan 26th
Reasons I love Add Art
Exhibit A Exhibit B Download it here
Jan 25th
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Jan 19th
A beautiful day for a trip to the Art Shanty Projects, one of my favorite parts of the season of, ahem, freezin’. Ice Yahtzee Library shanty The sauna tipi touches the sky dICEHOUSES filled with games Night falls on the dance shanty
Jan 18th
“If the definition provided for [femininity] is contradicted by the behavior of...”
– Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex
Jan 17th
Jan 17th
“The woman in love tries to see with his eyes; she reads the books he reads,...”
– Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex This is just like when the boy I adored at age 11 told me about Blink 182 and my dad found the album and asked if I even knew what an enema was.
Jan 15th
WatchWatch
Their life advice is a little reminiscent of a motivational speaker, i.e. totally up my cheery, well-lit alley, lined with flowers and downy, mewing kittens. This message brought to you by The Soft Pack: answer to yourself don’t depend on anyone else know where you stand know what’s in your head write down what you know and make sure that it’s known you’ve got...
Jan 15th
Jan 14th
WatchWatch
TO THE BEACH!
Jan 13th
Jan 12th
Signs You Are in a Wealthy Neighborhood
Snowmen with strawberries for eyes
Jan 12th
Crushes of my youth
Paul Simon, already 45 by the time I was born Woody Allen. Hindsight is 20/20; I blame the accent Andy Kaufman. Role on Taxi fueled my brief desire to become a cab driver David Schwimmer
Jan 11th
A customer asked if I’d been told I look like Maggie Gyllenhaal. I nodded. “Kirsten Dunst, once, too,” I told him, a comparison lobbed at me, perhaps out of pity, by a bartender bearing witness to an awful first date. (Bad sign when the barkeep is the highlight of your night.) “At least it wasn’t….” He groped for the name. “That woman who...
Jan 10th
WatchWatch
Let’s go to the beach!
Jan 10th
ListenStereolab—Tomorrow Is Already Here The...
Jan 9th
I rang up a man today whose hair was coming in white at the roots. He set his wallet on the counter, open to a black and white photo of a girl smiling past the camera. I asked who it was a photo of: his wife, he told me, her high school portrait. “Did you know her then?” “That’s when she hooked me,” he said. I glazed over momentarily—the romance! THE...
Jan 8th
Jan 7th
Questions That Deserve Answering:
Why is my mailman walking around with a coat? Does the answer lie in his auburn beard? Who raised this feral beast?
Jan 6th
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