February 2012
16 posts
“Becoming a writer is not a “career decision” like becoming a doctor or a...”
– PAUL AUSTER (via theilldefined)
ummmm
First eye exam in 3 or 4 years this week. realized that it will be cheaper to get contacts than a new pair of glasses.
also realized I’ve worn glasses pretty much every day of my life since i was 5 (there was one month my junior or senior year of high school after i broke them, and had to wait until i could buy a new pair, but thats it).
soooo i feel awkward about that. itll feel like im...
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“Everyone struggles. Its a guarantee. Learn to struggle with grace.”
– TJ
“I am a 53 year-old writer who can remember being a 10 year-old writer and who...”
– Octavia Butler (via raptorinside)
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Feminism (Via Straight White Man)
The first time I was called a feminist, I was in high school. I didn’t understand it then. Not because i didn’t know what feminism was (or at least i thought i understood it), but because the word was hurled at me like a racially charged insult.
One of my best friends had broken up with his girlfriend and was trying to stick his dick into anything he could (with some success). When he...
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Dear Sally Mae (and all you student loan...
I smoke, drink, and live the generally unhealthy lifestyle that I do so that I will never live long enough to pay you sons of bitches back. Fuck You.
“Course I talk to snakes. Fucking of course. I’ll talk to a snake anytime....”
– Drunk Harry Potter, by Mallory Ortberg for Slacktory (via slacktory)
On coming off as racist.
dearcoketalk:
You can really come off as racist sometimes, a culture racist.
A culture racist? Ugh. Your skin is thinner than your vocabulary.
The word you’re looking for is ethnocentrist, and if you had the slightest clue, you’d realize that I’m actually more of a cultural relativist.
I’m also an asshole, but since it’s easier for you to get offended than it is to get educated, you can’t...
January 2012
16 posts
25 Things I Learned From Opening a Used Bookstore →
holyfarts:
unchartedbooks:
1. People are getting rid of bookshelves. Treat the money you budgeted for shelving as found money. Go to garage sales and cruise the curbs.
2. While you’re drafting that business plan, cut your projected profits in half. People are getting rid of bookshelves.
3. If someone comes in and asks where to find the historical fiction, they’re not looking for...
Happy Ears
Danger Mouse just produced the new Black Keys album?! anything Danger Mouse does= Gold. the Black Keys= The Shit. you do the math when you put them together.
30 Rock Making fun of my alma mater! Love it!
Devon: “I wonder what Liddy will be doing in thirty years with her degree from SUNY…” Jack: “Don’t even say it” Devon: “Oneonta?!”
oh my god why do people talk about how...
holyfarts:
mcgoats:
as if their users DON’T ALREADY KNOW THAT
yes
i am aware
alcohol is poison
my smoking habit WILL kill me
drugs are SUPER dangerous
i am also an adult who made an adult decision to partake in these things
response: if y’all don’t like me, blow me.
New York City
Something I have never understood about people who move to NYC. Many of them don’t realize that the city does not give a fuck about you. In fact, the city probably hates you. You are just another body piling into its bloated limits, thinking that this is the place where everything happens. It is. And everything includes all the hardship, and hate, and grime humanity has.
You can visit NYC...
On the idea of online dating sites.
This is something I have thought about. I know a lot of people who have either been using/or started using these types of sites. Many speak positively of them, and I have even seen a few real legit relationships begin this way. So i decided to check one out…..
I many times suck at meeting new people, but realized that I probably am more freaked out about meeting people online. It’s...
WARPAINT ETIQUETTE: 3/30: Last Will and Testament... →
warpaintetiquette:
I, the undersigned, specifically and exclusively direct that, in the event of my untimely death, my estate shall devolve as follows:
Special Bequests:
My 2007 Apple Macbook laptop, to Joy Jerome, who will expressly review and delete any of the contents within she deems fit.
My poems. Printed,…
what is happening?
So. I just need to share with someone.
I haven’t owned a bed in 15 years. I bought a queen size bed yesterday. Shelled out some bank for it too.
But i decided to go really crazy, and got a giant furry comforter (advertised as the cuddliest comforter ever, it doesnt dissapoint), and sheets that are 10% cashmere.
I almost feel like an adult. I guess this also means I’ll be sticking...
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December 2011
9 posts
ether: Shh →
ether-eden:
If you have a degree in computer science, I’m not really gonna try to argue with you when it comes to computers and the science behind them. I’ve never formally studied computer science. So I’m going to just go ahead and respect scholarly opinion as fact when it comes to most things computer…
Randomness
One of my favorite people in the world, and her husband, now live in California. She has always been a horticultural enthusiast, and loves gardens and plants like i love poets and poems. On the phone with her husband a few weeks ago, he is happily telling me about some fantastic reefer he is smoking on his ride home from work, and how life is good. I simply replied that I have not been in this new...
“Because that’s the thing about Scooby-Doo: The bad guys in every episode aren’t...”
– Ask Chris #81: Scooby-Doo and Secular Humanism (via love-and-radiation)
November 2011
12 posts
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Watch
“Smoking is the only honorable form of suicide.”
– Kurt Vonnegut (via jrsisblissless)
I feel the only way to really know a person, is to...
It’s as simple as that.
New update. never mind. the previous post.
this is day 4 without hot water.
our heat isnt working either.
Lonnie used two part chickens we had in the fridge to make a stew, but just threw them in a pot without picking the bones off…..
this means i am spending this friday in a house, by myself, no hot water or heat, eating a chicken stew that is mostly bones.
fml. for the win.
Life Update
Finally getting busy here in DC area.
-Starting my second job today at the Captial City Ale House, a nice resturant that brews their own beer on premesis
- Working on the curriculum for the high schools we (joseph, Lonnie, Myself and others) are running for our after school program on poetry and performance. I’ve been assigned one high school for myself, and the kids are fantastic. After...
5 reasons you don't miss your 20's when they're... →