February 2009
80 posts
Probably woody Allen is too cool for that shit. Or maybe too neurotic.
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how can “new york, i love you” not have woody allen as a director? is it because he’ll smoke everyone else out of the water? to mix metaphors.
“…hauted by all you tweakers with your hands out…”
– Palmcorder Yajna
“Only one shit per poem.”
– Mark Doty
Tumblerette’s gone legit!
Started doing the 30 Day Shred in effort to not be pathetic out of shape blob. Have discovered that already AM pathetic out of shape blob. Also, face resembles strawberry.
Mary is getting less sleep.
We should shine a light on, a light on And the...
“Candle Ice makes a pleasant clinking sound when the candles are broken apart and...”
– Ahh, wikipedia, ever the poet.
Candle Ice - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Awkward Pet Funerals
I was watching a movie with an awkward pet funeral the other day, which made me remember the time when I was little and my (kind of sad and weird) friend had a funeral for her hamster. She’d decorated a little coffin-box with stickers and crayons, and there were pink hamster funeral cupcakes. It was all very weird.
Weird is the word of the day.
Weird is the new awkward.
Awkward is the old...
Mystery Caller
Someone called me from Hayward, California and did not leave a message. I don’t think I KNOW anyone with a landline in Hayward…
Is there a standard symbology of threat, that is to say, a standard set of things that we find frightening in real life or in fiction? A starter set of the obvious ones:
fangs, spikes, blades, sharp objects
hooded eyes, evidence of an intention towards deception
anything that is almost but not quite human, especially in voice or appearance
dead things that come to life
live things that die
...
Scared the crap out of myself last night watching Dr. Who’s “Blink.” Highly recommended, totally terrifying, basically didn’t sleep afterwards though.
Now am tired and also highly caffeinated. Also, strangely sore in the ribs. I think I slept with my arms stretched out over my head and pinned there somehow. Very weird, very sleepy-ifying.
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hi new tumblr followers!
every time i get new followers, mary gets pissed at me for being more internet-popular than she is.
it’s just internet popularity man, it ain’t no thang.
until i broker this into a deal with a major media institution that will legitimize my internet popularity with money!
But it’s just so UNFAIR. And then you FLAUNT it, you flaunter you.
Calloo, callay, less class than expected today!
I think my right foot is slightly bigger than my left.
Pretty Woman
Hollister: Exactly how obscene an amount of money were you talking about? Just… profane, or really offensive?
Edward: Really offensive.
Hollister: [to himself] I like him so much.
WANT JUICE.
I am on my lofted bed with my laptop, which is losing charge. I wish I could teleport my charger up here. Dude, ladders are a PAIN.
“To a worm in horseradish, everything is horseradish.”
– Malcolm Gladwell
WatchJulia Sweeney performs “Letting Go of God”
When I was little, I tried to make a table, but it turned out to be a man. I named him Albert and dressed him for every holiday for the next 7 years.
It is POURING. Like, a lot.
NPR: Cupcake Pointillism →
Super-cool cupcake portrait of Lincoln and Obama—the slideshow shows it being assembled. AWESOME.
Absolutely pouring on University Ave—the drug dealer and the crazy ladies are sharing an overhang with a guy playing the electric guitar.
I love falling asleep to the sound of rain on the roof (I grew up in a house with a tin roof in a place where when it rains it pours), and it hardly ever happens here, but I think it might actually be loud enough to hear tonight. :)
Kingsford: Tiny Cute Pig [VIDEO] →
Oh man, so CUTE.
my pop psychological theory on writing
Brief clarification: by “Side effect…etc” I meant: “Is the expectation that smart people will be good at writing a side effect of…etc.”
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cupcakenation:
Although it happens fairly often, I am somehow always surprised when smart and interesting people turn out to be bad or boring writers.
Side effect of the cultural perception of writing and...
Although it happens fairly often, I am somehow always surprised when smart and interesting people turn out to be bad or boring writers.
Side effect of the cultural
perception of writing and verbal skills as the “easy” part of academia?
me: that is my new word for today. Punks.
walt: good word, i think it gets the feeling across
me: I can be used in so many different ways.
me: Like, hey, punks, get offa my turf.
me: or. YOU PUNK ASS BITCH.
me: you know
me: so many NUANCES
walt: YES
walt: truly it is the "fuck" of our time
me: truly deeply
I love pizza
Frank O’Hara invented a school called personalism. He was the only member of the school.
I can hear singing groups doing their Valentine serenades outside…
Meditations at Lagunitas by Robert Hass
Oh man, I love this poem. I have some other poems about blackberries, if that’s your thing. Robert Hass teaches at Berkeley. He’s a local, born and bred.
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All the new thinking is about loss. In this it resembles all the old thinking. The idea, for example, that each particular erases the luminous clarity of a general idea. That the clown- faced woodpecker probing the dead...
