June 2012
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May 2012
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May 31st
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May 31st
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May 31st
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You guys!
I just watched Mary and Max, thanks to a coworker’s recommendation.  So wonderful, and sad, and cathartic.  And tender, really incredibly tender.  Watch it with kleenex or a dishtowel or gym shorts on hand if you’re feeling even a tiny bit emotional.  UGH, SO GOOD.
May 31st
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Frank X. Gaspar, "It Was So Dark Inside the Wolf" →
airwalker: All day with nothing on my mind, the soft old couch, the heating pad, a book of Tennessee Williams’s letters, tea, camembert, beer, soup, dozing, speaking in tongues off in my drowsing mind, invoking this or that god, thinking of raising my fortunes, thinking of all of this swimming forward without me someday, this bag of small wishes, the greatest sorrows indelible and indistinct in...
May 27th
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I still can’t get it right by Kathryn Stripling... →
Thank you, Kathryn Stripling Beyer.
May 26th
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May 26th
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W. W. Norton: Nearly a Valediction →
wwnorton: You happened to me. I was happened to like an abandoned building by a bull- dozer, like the van that missed my skull happened a two-inch gash across my chin. You were as deep down as I’ve ever been. You were inside me like my pulse. A new- born flailing toward maternal heartbeat through the shock of cold and glare: when you were gone, swaddled in strange air I was that alone ...
May 25th
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“I just realized that my GAF is about a 55.”
– me
May 25th
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May 25th
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“America is such a strange culture. It has all this wildness in it. And yet the...”
– James Purdy, BOMB 5/Spring 1983 (via bombmagazine)
May 24th
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May 24th
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May 23rd
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May 23rd
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“I want God, not my idea of God.”
– C.S. Lewis (via truje)
May 22nd
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May 22nd
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May 22nd
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“One wants to tell a story, like Scheherezade, in order not to die. It’s one of...”
– Carlos Fuentes (via booklover)
May 21st
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May 21st
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“I have come gradually to understand that the liberal arts cliché about teaching...”
– David Foster Wallace’s legendary This Is Water 2005 commencement address. (via hoticecream)
May 20th
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May 19th
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Corsons Inlet by A. R. Ammons : The Poetry... →
Just had this poem emailed to me by a friend.  I think I may read it every morning this week.
May 15th
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Battered Woman Sentenced to 20 Years for Warning... →
Got this link via email today from St. Louis Ending Violence Against Women Network(SLEVAWN).  From the message body: “This is about a battered woman. This about a battered woman who used force.  This is about a black battered woman who used force.  This is about systems.  Oppression. “This is an excellent case study in how systems oppress at the intersections of race, gender, class,...
May 12th
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May 11th
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May 10th
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May 5th
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May 5th
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“In the heat of the theater, on the verge of tears, happier than I had ever been,...”
– Muriel Barbery, The Elegance of the Hedgehog
May 4th
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Listendezcontentamentos: Alabama Shakes - Hold On
May 4th
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Going away
…this weekend for brother’s graduation.  Texas, are you ready?  (You never have been in the past, but that isn’t stopping me.)  The difficult thing about traveling this particular weekend is that I’m going to have to limit myself to one book and may not have room for my running shoes in my carry-on.  If you’ve been paying attention over the years, you may be as...
May 3rd
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“We were not created to be successful, but to be obedient.”
– Mother Teresa of Calcutta
May 3rd
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May 2nd
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May 1st
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“I hope you read some fine books and kiss someone who thinks you’re wonderful,...”
– Neil Gaiman (via thatquote)
May 1st
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