February 2012
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Minnesota Public Radio interview w/ Ben Lerner →
must read
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kouser asked: I'm probably late to the game for this, but I am so genuinely excited for more installments of Bookstore Triumphs. I may or may not be scavenging local used book stores to come up with a submission of my own.
January 2012
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“This Logic deviates from all former conceptions and schemes of logic: it moves....”
– Richard Kroner, Introduction to Hegel’s Early Theological Writings (via zeitvox)
history is like incense: only after it’s blown out does it really start to burn.
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whenever a woman imitates a man, she sounds like she’s imitating goofy; whenever a man imitates a woman, he sounds like he’s imitating minnie mouse.
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leaving the atocha station
in grendel’s alone working on my second absinthe and my re-reading of the first half of ben lerner’s *leaving the atocha station*, the best book (by far) that i have yet read by any author i consider “a member of my generation.” i will have to write more fully about it later on—but for now here are my thoughts, for i no longer wish to contain them.
i am re-reading the...
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“Why was I born between mirrors?”
– Ben Lerner, Leaving the Atocha Station
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synecdoche:
Here is a question! Let’s say, hypothetically, you are drunk and in your pajamas. Is it more pathetic if you are drunk in the morning OR if you are still wearing pajamas at 10:45PM?
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rawrlionbear asked: Hi.
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the wikipedia blackout will be widely noticed.
addendum: in text
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“But I was trying to tell you a strange thing
That happened to me, but this is...”
– John Ashbery, “Grand Galop”
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let’s not crush one another with colossal expectations okay?
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ke$ha, feminist pioneer →
seeing as last night’s post about ke$ha was a decent hit, now might be a good time to bring back this old favorite.
enjoy!
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is loving pet sounds still cool?
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Henry (8) and Sal (10) watching "Marie Antoinette"
Henry: So what, you just like trade your daughter to another country to stop world war two or something?
Henry: They'd better not take that pug from the girl from Spider-man. Oh my GOD they did. I hate France.
Henry: I want a feather pen.
Sal: They are really heavy and hard to write with. You have to dip them in ink. They leave blotches.
Henry: You don't think I know that stuff? I tried to make a feather pen.
Henry: Is he wearing a wig? Why is a big butt dress supposed to be fancy? Everyone likes big butts. They cannot lie. This is where the song probably came from.
Henry: Instead of kissing at the wedding they should do the chicken dance.
Henry: Are there explosions in this?
Henry: Is everyone going to watch them go to bed? Are they dying? Okay is everyone going to go in their room every night?
Henry: Uhhh (boob shot)
Henry: Did they want them to have a kid their first night together?! Um, they kinda have to know each other first. Jeez.
Henry: I can't wait to go to France and eat pastries.
Me: They're just like the ones at the patisserie.
Henry: No. They're better. Mom, it's Paris.
Henry: Do they have to make a baby here at some point? God, that would be annoying. This prince is a weirdo. He makes keys.
Sal: Why is the King with that girl? That's not the queen? Ew!
Henry: What about that pug?
Henry: They said the princess is fooling around, but the prince is never sleeping with her.
Henry: Don't walk behind that huge dress! Peacock! CA-CAWWW!!
Thought Catalog: 20 New Year's Resolutions For... →
thoughtcatalog:
Before you status update, Tweet, Tumble or Instagram, pause and say to yourself, “is it entirely necessary that I share this morsel of thought with my entire social network?”and if the answer is not, “yes, I absolutely must,” then step away from the Internet.
Know which candidate you’re going…
read this then live by it
December 2011
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“The drink is popular at bars among college-aged adults, who enjoy the...”
– Wikipedia
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“To happiness the same applies as to truth: one does not have it, but is in it....”
– Theodor Adorno, Minima Moralia
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“A specter is haunting cinema: the specter of narrative. If that apparition is an...”
– Hollis Frampton, “A Pentagram for Conjuring the Narrative”
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“I don’t argue that there is an ethics for writing the autobiographical. However,...”
– Kate Zambreno, All The Sad Young Pretty Girls on Thought Catalog (via thoughtcatalog)
i fully agree with this.
rawrlionbear asked: Is there an interesting reason behind the theme change or?
smag9 asked: Hi! I read your 'One Sentence Love Story' on Thought Catalog and I am just confused. Why is it the 'last text she will ever send him' and why isn't it making her feel any better? I followed the whole entire thing, read it over and over because I love it so much but you just lost me at the end. What does the interaction with her mother and father have to do with the boy?
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“You think you love banana splits but really you just love the maraschino cherry...”
– One Sentence Love Story « Thought Catalog (via nickdouglas)
i wrote this
Thought Catalog: One Sentence Love Story, by Nick... →
thoughtcatalog:
Sometimes when you think you love something what you really love is not the thing itself but just some small and inessential part of it: you think you love banana splits but really you just love the maraschino cherry on top and you think you love autumn but really you just love getting a Pumpkin…
my story on tc
the world is still not ready for kid a. give another five years.
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this was the week in which two women died gruesomely in new york elevators.
funny the embarrassment i feel when someone mentions that i looked like i was having a good time. like the person who said it now has something on me. maybe it’s because enjoying myself often means forgetting that i am being watched. but no, it’s more the feeling that that person is pointing out a weakness, as if to say “you are now at my mercy.” incidentally the person in...
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why is everyone dying?
just because it’s fake doesn’t mean it isn’t real