February 2012
17 posts
I know we aren’t talking anymore, but that doesn’t prevent things from happening
to me that I want to tell you about.
Leigh Stein - Canary
jesus university
Chris: right now, the competition is probably between lehigh and syracuse
Erin: Where’s Lehigh?
sweet valley lehigh?
Chris: Bethlehem, pa
haha
yes
Erin: birth place of jesus, sort of?
Chris: yeah, that’s why i’m so interested in it
i am actually interested in being able to be a tour guide of his manger
so i figured this is as good a shot as any to get...
Snow Moon, Leah Mooney
kathleenjoy:
Tonight, breaking shells from boiled eggs, my thumbs are red-tender. Beyond this kitchen window the moon fills with blood, grows heavy like a plum as it falls. It is no longer a moon, though that is the closest name left. All we have are names. Moon, snow, egg. I say thumb, but when I hold it in the light, what I am saying to you is see how tender I have become? Even the eggshells...
All of a sudden everyone is in the choir room and Mr. Schue is holding up a jar of peanut butter and looking impish. That Irish kid, he explains, has NEVER TASTED PEANUT BUTTER (impossible — peanut butter is actually how the Hollywizards get Irish people to look like they’re “talking” onscreen!). Now, this might seem like the most abrupt, insensitive segue since whatever I hated in the last...
Still don’t watch Glee, still read the recaps which are more delightful than the show could ever be:
Mercedes reveals that she told Shane about her feelings for Sam, but now she feels too guilty about her infidelity to actually be with Sam, so instead she sings “I Will Always Love You.” (Really? You will ALWAYS love SAM???) Now, shooting for this episode wrapped on February 1, which ...
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“It’s funny that when you decide you want to do creative...”
– Ira Glass - Harnessing Luck
“Cautiously, I allowed myself to feel good at times. I found moments of peace in...”
– Charles Bukowski, Let it Enfold You (via cartilaginousfish)
“One day
is never longer than
the next untangling film
from a canister....”
– Wendy Xu
ANOTHER DAY IN THESE SHOES WILL NOT STAND
i can no longer stand pain-free in these shoes
January 2012
22 posts
Kevin: i can’t tell if it’s funny or sad that you pretend to have a presence and community on yahoo answers
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“And as I walked out the door for the last time, it occurred to me that whatever...”
– The Time I Quit My Job Teaching Preschool, or A Farewell to Legos - Josh Gondelman | ThoughtCatalog
“Even though I was heading into my late twenties, I was still a child, ignorant...”
– Meghan Daum - My Misspent Youth
“Several cubicles are empty nowadays, the former occupants long retired but never...”
– The Imperfectionists - Tom Rachman
Monique: I got fired today
Monique: I didn’t show up for work yesterday because I went to disneyland
Monique: which is a pretty great way to get fired
who knows
Jack: well i dont know
it’s hard to say
i’ve never been an adult
who knows how you’re supposed to feel
Tricked
Jack: but yeah this is why i can never vote for a woman president me: oh god HERE WE GO Jack: you all get tricked into buying a crazy expensive dress you will only ever wear once in your life me: NO we don’t ALL GET TRICKED i am not tricked i don’t want a dress Jack: hahaha we’ll see Jack: the wedding industrial complex Jack: i do like going to weddings and like...
Cookie pieces!
Tom: The first thing we notice when we open up our bags is that we need to sue … the company.
Mike: Something has gone horribly awry with my sleeve of Keebler Fudge Stripe cookies.
Tom: Michael’s bag of Keebler Fudge Stripes … looks like Shrek sat on it.
Mike: They’re just decimated.
Tom: Yours are crushed! There’s not one whole cookie! My thing is, when I go to a...
Aldous Huxtable: The "Don't Be A Di*k During Meals... →
“Don’t Be A Di*k During Meals With Friends.”
The first person to crack and look at their phone picks up the check.
Our (initial) purpose of the game was to get everyone off the phones free from twitter/fb/texting and to encourage conversations.
Rules:
1) The game starts after everyone has…
so much joy it hurts: Darling, Alex Dimitrov →
kathleenjoy:
The days fall out of your pockets one after the other. Soon you’ll need a new jacket with tougher leather and seams no one has felt. Soon you’ll bring the old books into your bed and sleep easy and alone. It must be December again. This must be the part of the story where you refuse to say…
“Once a little boy sent me a charming card with a little drawing on it. I loved...”
– Maurice Sendak (via elkdogmen)
Cardigans
You feel like a fool for investing so much of your personal happiness into someone else but that doesn’t stop things from sucking. You go home and wilt like a flower. “I wonder if this person knew that they had the power to make me wilt. If they did, they might be completely freaked out…” It’s funny because what you’re doing right now — the whole wilting thing — is just projecting this idea into...
The desire for balance is understanding though. Maybe it’s not about having a “dream job” and the perfect boyfriend/girlfriend but about having a little bit of each. If you become a workaholic and spend no time watering your social life, you’re going to be miserable. If you’re a social butterfly with no job prospects, you’re also going to hate your life a little bit. But balance is elusive for...
December 2011
58 posts
“Sometimes, I think the only art left for us is slowly peeling the label off a...”
– Lynda Barry (via poetbabble) (via favoritepoems)
“Leslie Rosen, who handled Zokhrabov’s appeal, said that while the...”
– Death of man struck by train leads to ‘bizarre’ civil case | Chicago Tribune
When we tell our children the story of our lives,
we will have to explain what made us fall in love,
quit our jobs, and spend thousands of dollars
renting a twenty-two foot truck so we could drive
everything we owned to a city we’d never seen.
We will have to explain gasoline.
Leigh Stein - Elegy for Gasoline
“I hate Clifford the Big Red Dog! I hate him! There’s fifty books about...”
– Louis C.K, Live at the Beacon Theater
Today, like every other day
Today, like every other day, we wake up empty
and frightened. Don’t open the door to the study
and begin reading. Take down a musical instrument.
Let the beauty we love be what we do.
There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground.
Rumi
Am I still asleep?
Faunts - Sleepwalker
““A haunting is dangerous. It’s a good way to get killed.”
...”
– Jack Cazir, Dating in a Ghost Town
“She was pretty, definitely, but more important was the book she kept in her bag....”
– Jack Cazir, Dating in a Ghost Town
it's a vogel christmas
Erin: I want to be tipsy by the time we open presents.
My brother: That’s my plan.