February 2012
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In which my dear friend John is reading Harry...
John: Can I talk shit to you about someone real quick? It's someone you know.
Me: Yes, go on.
John: Rita Skeeter! That BITCH...she's like the Fox News of the Daily Prophet.
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“That’s right, I am a book kisser. Maybe that’s kind of perverted or maybe it’s...”
– Sherman Alexie, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian (via thelifeguardlibrarian)
“PBR beard keytar, cliche cillum est commodo marfa put a bird on it. Dolore...”
– Lorem Ipsum for Hipsters (via @joelkarnold)
Sasha B, my life consultant
Me: I WANT A BEAR.
Sasha: No, no you don't.
Me: But can't I have a baby one for a bit?
Sasha: Umm. Unlikely, sorry to burst your bubble.
Me: FINE.
Sasha: Should have gone to school for zookeeping.
Me: But I hate science.
Sasha: How about this? Become super famous in the publishing industry. Have your own agency, and publish lots of books about animals and conservation. Become wealthy. become a patron of a zoo and donate lots of money to them. They will love you so much, they will invite to exclusive events like bear cub play time. There you go, problem solved.
“He knew that I love you also means I love you in a way that no one loves you, or...”
– Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything is Illuminated (via bookmania)
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“I am a majority shareholder in Sam’s heart stock. I invested wisely. Like...”
– the constant quote machine, Sasha Butkovich
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“He is exactly
the poem
I wanted to write.”
– Mary Oliver, from “White Heron Rises Over Blackwater” in New and Selected Poems, Volume Two (via proustitute)
January 2012
42 posts
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Michigan Beer Reigns Supreme →
Four Michigan beers out of the top ten on rate beer?
You’re damn right we’re called the great beer state!
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Decline of Values
wwnorton:
I’m reading a B.A. thesis on the decline of values. Logically, falling implies a height from which to fall, and who’s that stupid?
Life is neither up nor down, and still less in between. Life has no idea of up and down, fullness and void, before and after. And knows zip about the present.
Tear up your pages, ditch them in the sewer, abandon your degree and you can brag that you were...
“Oh, darling, you will be good to me, won’t you? Because we’re going to have a...”
– Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms (via loveyourchaos)
There’s that moment in the movie, or the music video or even the song where someone unexpected grabs the hand of the main character and provides comfort in a way they were not expecting. I will be that someone unexpected for you.
“I tell you this
to break your heart,
by which I mean only
that it break open...”
– Mary Oliver, from “Lead” in New and Selected Poems, Volume Two (via proustitute)
“I didn’t know why I was going to cry, but I knew that if anybody spoke to me or...”
– Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar (via bookmania)
Bob Dylan is just doing it for me tonight.