June 2010
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According to John Keats..
meditate on some truth/beauty/imagination
Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?
Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter
Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.
Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced.
Poetry should be great and unobtrusive,...
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"Lenny Hearts Eunice" by Gary Shteyngart
See, I haven’t lost sight of posting stories!
http://www.newyorker.com/fiction/features/2010/06/14/100614fi_fiction_shteyngart
This piece was featured in The New Yorker’s “20 under 40” issue and is adapted from Shteyngart’s novel “Super Sad True Love Story,” which comes out this July.
It’s an (eventually) endearing and funny piece of speculative...
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Love at first purchase
I’m moving into a new apartment come August and yesterday I bought my first decor piece.
You can buy this tealight holder from Z Gallerie or on their website. It’s on sale ;)
Z Gallerie has to be one of my favorite home decor and furniture stores. I love their aesthetic: modern but not bare and chic but not boring.
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Songbird
I took a poetry class once. It was an intro class, so each student only workshopped one piece. Here’s what I shared.
Songbird
She told me everything- How her father used his fleshy piston to sow his seed all over the trailer park How her mother quieted her brain synapses with brandy or gin How she was supposed to have a younger brother, but he came out raw and bleeding How she wanted me...
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According to Oscar Wilde.. "Phrases and...
Some light reading.
According to Mr. Oscar Wilde..
The first duty in life is to be as artificial as possible. What the second duty is no one has as yet discovered.
Wickedness is a myth invented by good people to account for the curious attractiveness of others.
If the poor only had profiles there would be no difficulty in solving the problem of poverty.
Those who see any difference between...
May 2010
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Chuck Palahniuk "Guts"
this post was originally sucked into the mysteries of interweb land…
“Guts” by Chuck Palahniuk
**Somewhat disturbing & very disgusting
http://chuckpalahniuk.net/features/shorts/guts
Readings of “Guts” have consistently caused fainting amongst audience members.
“The Guts Effect” by Chuck Palahniuk
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favorite famous names
Oscar Fingal Wilde
Julian Fernando Casablancas
Sophia Loren
Tennessee Williams
Pocahontas; daughter of Wahunsunacawh, or Chief Powhatan
Brigitte Bardot
Have I forgotten any especially fantastic ones? Please share!
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Have you ever read “The Wind Up Bird Chronicles?”
.. because I want to go sit in the bottom of a dried up well.
(Isn’t it annoying how the American English standard is to put the punctuation inside the quote? It’s “The Wind Up Bird Chronicles” NOT “The Wind Up Bird Chronicles?” and now I run into that tricky punctuation problem again..)
I think my...
November 2009
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"The Lady with the Little Dog" by Anton Chekhov
http://www.ibiblio.org/eldritch/ac/jr/197.htm
August 2009
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"The Secretary" by Mary Gaitskill
I’m sure a lot of you have seen the movie “The Secretary,” featuring Maggie Gyllenhaal as Lee Holloway, the sexually submissive secretary of sado-masochistic attorney, E. Edward Grey, who is played by James Spader.
But, you may have not read the short story, which the movie is based off of, and that’s okay, but you might be missing out.
Unlike the move, it’s...
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“I should have married someone out of practicality, while carrying on an illicit affair with Sondra. That would have preserved Sondra as she was: beautiful and perfect. Those old English Lords with their mistresses had romance down right. Of course, I don’t blame Sondra. I’ve learned by now that marriage is anti-romance. This modern conception of finding your “true love” and spouse in one...