February 2012
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Thanks to a book I’m reviewing I get to write about clothes and “what they mean.” Yessssss
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What does it mean that listening to the Beatles makes me as happy as this does? By which I mean very happy. The outraged comments are good for a laugh too.
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lastbutnotleast reblogged your photo: Interesting essay over at Flavorwire. I have loved…
On one hand, it’s boring and predictable when something becomes less respectable when it pulls a female audience. on the other hand, S2 was baaaad. Concussions (even really bad ones) don’t turn you into a Canadian, sorry.
What s/he said.
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The Mundaneum
Just a note to the folks who have submitted their funny, clever, interesting research requests at The Mundaneum: I’m on it.
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Detritus & Ephemera: mariatatuada replied to... →
thelalatheory replied to your quote: Attagirldoinitbyyourselfthat’swhatI’mtalkinabout.
Wow. Since I haven’t had a baby I didn’t realize men do baby-centric…
Thanks, dude! About the Bitch article I mean.
Here is a humorous story for you. Tama Janowitz is a writer I really like, do you know her? In this one essay she wrote about adopting her daughter from China as a baby she said that...
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The Chimerist: Experiments in handwriting fonts →
thechimerist:
Alison Bechdel disclosed in a little preview booklet for Are You My Mother? that she used a font based on her own handwriting for the new book, as she did in Fun Home. Computer lettering looks so good when she does it, I got curious about the logistics and downloaded iFontMaker ($6.99)…
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the Redman episode of Cribs
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The only art / humor that matters now is trolls interacting with and exposing corporate branding conversations on Facebook and Twitter.
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I just found out my zine has been nominated for... →
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My review of a new novel by Hilma Wolitzer is in this Sunday’s Philadelphia Inquirer. It’s kind of a romance, and I liked it in some ways; she’s a good writer. But in other ways I found it a bit silly.
“You don’t have to be a print book person or an e-book person. It’s not an...”
– Jonathan Segura, “No More E-Books Vs. Print Books Arguments, OK?” via NPR (via thelibrarianontherun)
—This is correct. I am one of those people who likes it both ways (har, har).
(via thepinakes)
Yes, but I’m gonna take this one step further and say that I don’t give a crap if...
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January 2012
35 posts
“It strikes me that an outré costume is one very effective way of twisting the...”
– - Becca Klaver (via hysteriarama)
someone understands me
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My review of Richard Burgin's new book in the... →
It’s a collection of eerie short stories, somewhere between horror and literary fiction. I liked it pretty well.
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put a ring on it
put a bird on it
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subway philosopher
When I hear that silly Drake song where he goes “I swear this life is like the sweetest thing I’ve ever known” I guess he’s brag-talking about being successful and rich and everything, but whenever I hear that line come through my headphones my stomach does a little flip, cuz on its own it’s like the prettiest thing a person could say.
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Lorem Ipsum profiled as creative community space,... →
carissahalston:
loremipsumbooks:
This week’s Boston Phoenix features a look the emergence of Boston’s new generation of ‘nontraditional, cooperative work places’ attempting to redefine the notion of community space. We’re proud to have been featured as one of many organizations that have attempted to create a greater, reconfigured sense of community in the greater Boston area. Seeing so many...
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You know how you learn a new word and then suddenly it’s everywhere? I heard this word “ship” a few days ago, meaning “relationship” and having something to do with fandom I think, and now I have seen it like three times on the blogs I follow. Weird when that happens. I think ship can be used as a noun and a verb. I ship you guys! (eh I don’t think I did it...
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This guy has written a better interpretation of Arthur Brisbane’s New York Times “facts” quote/conversation than anyone I’ve seen discussing it reactionarily on tumblr.
Skúffuskáld
icelandiclanguage:
In relation to the poetry posts, there is this Icelandic word skúffuskáld, which means someone who’s secretly a poet. It literally means “drawer poet”, someone who writes poetry but chugs it all into his desk drawer instead of showing it to people.
I plugged this into an online translation dictionary which spit back “drawer poet” with no further explanation —...
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Beautiful essay on zines vs. "getting published" →
by Martha Grover, a longtime zinester whose first book has just come out.
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faerygrrrl answered: i would!
Hooray! Thanks folks! I’m writing away over here, working on this new project. Details soon.
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loudsoundsco answered: I would! Would you charge a lump sum or could it be paid in increments?
Hey, thanks! I don’t know. I’m thinking if it were me I might not want to shell out for a whole year at once. So I could break it up into quarters or something. These will be tiny one-page zines so they’ll be inexpensive, + postage.
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Is there anybody around here who would be interested in buying a yearlong subscription to a weekly mini-zine? Of mine? I have a new project for which I will create a weekly zine of my writing about clothing and I’d like to make it subscription-based, but I want to find out how interested parties would like to read it. I can make the issues available separately too, but should I also break it...
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My reading life.
So I went to the library yesterday, as I do when I am feeling blue (and also when I’m happy). I was in the market for a few books and I found them and looked them over and then decided I didn’t want them after all. One is called (somewhat confusingly, since this is also the name as a play by Nora Ephron, but then I found out that the play is based on the book) Love, Loss and What I...
True confessions:
I once lied to an up-and-coming poet about my age.
“I don’t like this expression ‘First World problems.’ It is false and it is...”
– Nigerian author and artist Teju Cole (via funkyfest)
Take that, everybody! Quit using that obnoxious expression! I hate it for its smugness too but actually my entrée into hating it was from a different direction: You will find that many people in the “first world” are dealing with...
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“The turning point comes with the entrance of a minor character, a fan who has...”
– from Jeannie Vanasco’s review of Molly Fox’s Birthday, NY Times
another note to self
carissahalston said: You winked at me the last time we hung out and I loved it. Just saying.
See? I told you guys, it works.
lukut said: I am so concerned about making good flirty faces!
You are not the only one my friend. It’s a sought-after skill! What if it were possible to beam pure love and sex energy at people and then they would just love you? It sounds like a superpower but I believe it is sometimes possible.
snuffboxisdead said: I personally strongly prefer the super sly & subtle barely-a-wink, like where you’re almost just blinking & barely make any effort with your face muscles other than your eyelid. It’s like “OH SHIT WAS THAT A WINK!???!!!” those are the best :D
I completely agree and in fact I have PRACTICED doing it this way. Now I’ve said too much.
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On winking.
Listen, I have heard it said a NUMBER of times now that there is something somehow hideous about winking at people. (I mean doing it with your face, not typing ;) .) And I just want to say publicly and without apology that I vehemently disagree with this idea. Winking is fabulous. My dad winked at me sometimes, like when I was the only one who got his joke. Winking at little kids is sweet and it...
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A dear pen-pal friend of mine did that very kind...
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