December 2011
3 posts
The year in movies: 2011
In 2009 I kept a list of every new movie I watched, and two years ago to this day, I posted the final list to Tumblr. I decided early this year to repeat the exercise, and my 2011 viewing habits ended up markedly different. With some notable exceptions, I largely abandoned the “classic” films I gravitated toward in ‘09, and my movie consumption was lower than it used to be. But...
“To shift the structure of a sentence alters the meaning of that sentence, as...”
– Joan Didion
November 2011
2 posts
October 2011
4 posts
“Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I’m...”
– Jonathan Safran Foer
Meanwhile, The San Francisco Public Library →
Gorgeous illustrations depicting the best things about libraries (but really, what’s not to love?).
“Sometimes life is going to hit you in the head with a brick. Don’t lose faith.”
– Steve Jobs (via paperbackgirl)
September 2011
2 posts
2 tags
August 2011
2 posts
C.J. Chivers: What I've Learned (Esquire) →
“You can assemble factual truth brick by brick. But there’s also emotional truth. How people feel may not be rooted in fact, but it can be true to them, and it guides their actions. The first one’s hard, but it’s a lot easier than the second.”
Fashion sense
Warren: What are you gonna wear? Like hoop skirts?
Lyndsey: Yeah, maybe!
Warren: Do you know what a hoop skirt is?
Lyndsey: Maybe...
Warren: It's what they wore during the Civil War!
Lyndsey: Ohhh. I was thinking of like something from the '50s.
Warren: You're thinking of pencil skirts.
Lyndsey: No, I'm pretty sure I was thinking of poodle skirts.
July 2011
2 posts
“Tears Dry on Their Own”: my favorite...
Made for TV
me: wouldn't megan fox make the PERFECT casey anthony in the inevitable movie version?!
Collin: yes, but she won't stoop to lifetime
not yet, at least
me: true :(
June 2011
1 post
“Poets claim that we recapture for a moment the self that we were long ago when...”
– Marcel Proust
May 2011
1 post
April 2011
1 post
The queen always gets a thorough TSA patdown.
Joan: how was your trip
me: it was good. but they did an x-ray body scan of me at the cincinnati airport!
i did not like it one bit
Joan: well...
you do look kinda terroristy!!!!!
me: i was wearing a t-shrit i got from target that says "ENGLAND" across it
that's probably why
Joan: yes, that would do it
March 2011
3 posts
“Even in those moments, when we are that gangly 22-year-old, we have flashes of...”
– Ann Friedman on the young Patti Smith — and other women who (mistakenly) believe they just aren’t ready yet.
Jinxed
Hilary: Katie: do I need to purchase anti-radiation pills?
me: the times did a whole story yesterday about how people in america purchasing anti-radiation pills are kinda dumb
let me find it so you can refer her
Hilary: haha
thank you
me: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/16/health/16iodide.html
you're welcome
Hilary: eyeroll
me: hahaa
now that we've had this conversation, things will inevitably get a million times worse
and we'll have to buy the pills
but there will be none left
Hilary: it was nice knowing you.
me: likewise
February 2011
2 posts
“I know older men in comedy who can barely feed and clean themselves, and they...”
– Tina Fey, from her New Yorker piece on motherhood. See: The Best Quotes from Tina Fey’s New Yorker Piece on Motherhood. (via newsweek)
January 2011
6 posts
Nabokov Butterfly Theory Is Vindicated →
“He was the curator of lepidoptera at the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard University, and collected the insects across the United States. He published detailed descriptions of hundreds of species. And in a speculative moment in 1945, he came up with a sweeping hypothesis for the evolution of the butterflies he studied, a group known as the Polyommatus blues. He envisioned them...
So much for Jacksonville
me: i always felt like jax had a lot of untapped potential
Stephanie: where? at the beaches? the bars where the fans cheers on the jags? or at the golf clubs that don't allow black people
“Imagine it’s 1995: almost no one but Gordon Gekko and Zack Morris have...”
– The First Decade of the Future is Behind Us | Science Not Fiction | Discover Magazine (via arielwaldman)
WE LIVE IN THE MOTHER FLIPPIN FUTURE!!!
(via msg)
What this otherwise smart piece fails to mention — a key point, I think — is that Pixar is still releasing Toy Story films. Thank...
“May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope...”
– Neil Gaiman, 2001 (via austinkleon)
December 2010
2 posts
November 2010
3 posts
“Once a little boy sent me a charming card with a little drawing on it. I loved...”
– Maurice Sendak (via saragregory)
October 2010
4 posts
I have this problem where I talk like Regina...
Much Older Colleague: There seemed to be an awful lot of stories.
Me: YA, I KNOW, RIGHT?!!
Much Older Colleague: ...Yup.
Inspired by Halloween, a throwback to Halloween...
Andrea: David, what are you going to be for Halloween?
David Low: It's a secret.
Andrea: Nooooo, tell meeee!
David: OK, I'll give you a hint. It's a creature.
Andrea: Is it mythical?
David Low: No, it's real.
Deborah: (totally serious) Is it a unicorn?!
Everyone: ....
“The night ended with the crowd crying for more “strippers.” “DANCERS!” someone...”
– Litquake Ferlinghetti
September 2010
3 posts
"In idle moments, I retreated into that...
icanseenewyorkcityfrommyhouse:
- Colson Whitehead, Sag Harbor
August 2010
3 posts
Seven Years as a Freelance Writer, or, How To Make... →
katielsanders:
drewharwell:
Journalism even at its best is already a fairly caustic and draining experience. All the qualities that make you a great journalist make you a terrible person: gossip, urgency, obsession, noisiness, theatrics and hysterics.
Richard Morgan, The Awl, August 2010
July 2010
4 posts
The Doree Chronicles: I’m sorry, but I can’t email... →
I’m sorry, but I can’t email you back until I feel less tired and cranky and this zit on top of my lip stops looking like a cold sore and this cough goes away. Why didn’t I take Dayquil this morning? I had to take Tylenol Cold & Flu to fall asleep. Also my dog has a bacterial infection in her anal glands and she’s on antibiotics. Her ANAL GLANDS. The vet said the stuff in them was bright ...
“Feminism has to be for all women. Even women you think are stupid, naive, or...”
– Feminism For Bitches - The Sexist - Washington City Paper
possibly the best title ever? also, yep. see also: Sarah Palin.
(via champagnecandy)(via themarriageofadeadblogsing)(via tiaramerchgirl)(via clitorisaurusrex)(via pigisapig)(via fight-war-not-wars)(via brave-slut)
(via sexismandthecity)
...
June 2010
4 posts
“Biggin then returned home, where along with some of her “dearest friends,” she...”
– Area Grandmother Comes Forward As ‘Banksy’ - The Onion (via themorningnews)
