January 2012
14 posts
"First, the obvious. Cynthia Nixon "knows" that... →
22 November 2006 @ 11:11 am
exerptsfromoldlivejournals:
I don’t know what it is about me and holding random people’s hands when drunk, but it needs to stop. It’s becoming embarrassing.
I feel: creative
16 February 2004 @ 6:30 p.m.
clownybee:
excerptsfromoldlivejournals:
title: anyone?
current mood: annoyed
not even my dog likes me now. i keep calling her, but she just doesn’t want to come and sit here by me. why? what have i ever done to you doggy? fed you? walked you in the dead of winter? given you treats? awwww, i love my dog anyways. and i know she loves me!! hehe, i’m such a dork.
Everyone follow this Tumblr...
LK#2: so yesterday i found frozen toasted ravioli at the grocery store and was so excited
i got home and was starving and couldnt wait
realized the directions were for the oven only
i thought “surely this could work just as well in the microwave”
have you ever opened the microwave and had black smoke come gushing out?
“I may be completely mistaken in all my feelings; but they are mine at the...”
– Journals of John Cheever
“But, contrary to common belief, Wonder Woman was not the first female superhero....”
– LOS ANGELES REVIEW OF BOOKS: Heroine Chic
I had some thoughts. Thankfully most of them went away quickly enough.
Dear whoever invented black pencil skirts and cardigans: thank you. It makes getting dressed for work so easy that even someone content to hang about in sweatpants for an entire week of vacation can be assured of looking passably employable again. Being able to order a new black pencil skirt exactly like one’s old black pencil skirt from The Limited without going to a mall is an extra bonus....
December 2011
14 posts
“This was another of our fears: that Life wouldn’t turn out to be like...”
– The Sense of an Ending, Julian Barnes
Sometimes I do this thing and I don’t know if anyone else does: When I’m bored, I’ll go to amazon.com and read negative reviews of books I love. Currently enjoying the very wrong opinions of people who didn’t like 2666. In re: Bolaño, I recently bought The Savage Detectives but I’ve sworn not to go near it til I’m done with Anna Karenina. She’s a cruel,...
"Madonna’s Super Bowl gig feels rather like... →
Really, this is how our democracy works? Are you guys sure? From a 2009 story about the New Mexico Senate:
The Legislative Council Service has changed the lens in the Senate’s webcam, but the view is only barely wider. It still shows only nine senators.
Why does the camera show so little? Well, it was never intended to show a complete view of the Senates chamber. The other two cameras...
For some reason, my reaction to the following was, awww, how cute!
Putting each of the measures in separate bills allowed most Democrats and most Republicans to vote against breaks they didn’t like — for corporations and low-come groups, respectively — while allowing each bill to get he 60 votes it needed to pass.
I didn’t sleep tonight so that I could reread a book I’ve read twelve times already. That was a good idea, probably. (No clues on what the book was, though. Hah. I’m just kidding. GUYS, it was ULYSSES, OK? Calm down.)
“You know, I don’t want 11-year-old girls having the need for Plan B,...”
– Melissa McEwan at Shakesville.
Bhahaha. From this week’s Shouts & Murmurs, by Paul Rudnick:
Alfred Kinsey believed that human sexuality could be charted on a scale of 0 to 6, with 0 being “Exclusively heterosexual” and 6 being “Exclusively homosexual.” Owing to changing cultural boundaries and advanced research, Kinsey’s scale has recently been expanded:
… 12. You identify as bisexual because you think it...
My mother is not impressed by Romney’s $200 million net worth because, she says, “That little Justin Bieber is worth $75 million. If he and Taylor Swift get married, they’d almost be worth as much.”
“If our fellow men could be aware of our opinions about them, love, friendship...”
– Emil Cioran
Ulysses is ruled not obscene — History.com This... →
Coming soon: a line of tshirts with awesome* slogans by clownybee and me. So far, we’ve got these winners:
“Everything I’m saying today is coming out a little Marxist.”
Front: “I‘m taking my pro-bono freelance anthropologist duties very seriously.” Back: “Orientalist.”
Front: “Privileged.” Back: “But feeling guilty about...
November 2011
15 posts
“It’s the eye of the beholder. You have to go to the eye doctor, get happy...”
– Larry Lipton (Woody Allen), Manhattan Murder Mystery, 1993
So sad right now. Apparently the Naperville library no longer has a subscription to the OED as of a few months ago. And the Chicago public library claims that I lost one of their books — I emphatically did not; I had 18 books overdue at one time, sure, but I did not lose any of them and I’ve paid my fines for the lateness — and won’t let me use their online resources till I...
“For example, Rilke, I suppose my favorite writer really, and in the best sense a...”
– William H Gass (via this Believer interview)
“The Brazilian legislature had long been a cesspit of venality and opportunism....”
– LRB · Perry Anderson · Lula’s Brazil
“There is more respect to be won in the opinion of this world by a resolute and...”
– Georg F. Kennan, as quoted in a FT review of a new biography of him.
“When we asked the students what they were thankful for, they echoed past...”
– Ahahaha. Email from 826, the writing tutoring place where I volunteer. And it’s true, too.
Nostalgia ridden. Avoid.
One of the students I tutor is waiting to hear back from Northwestern. She told me today that, if accepted, she wants to live in the dorm where I lasted for one quarter and two weeks freshman year before bolting to a single. Oh, the Communications Residential College, how I didn’t care much either way about thee. Six years later I have only vague ideas about why the place was offensive to my...
From an old notebook.
6 July 2011
Thought on waking up: image fragment from a dream: hamster running in its wheel — light brown fur, white wheel floating, no context; text: when you raise a hamster, you know you’re getting a hamster; when you raise a kitten, you know you’re getting a cat; but when you raise a baby, you don’t know what you’re getting.
“The most obvious drawback of identity politics is its logic of fragmentation...”
– Ellen Willis, ‘No More Nice Girls’, 1992
“I was there to take down the names of people who were arrested… As I’m standing...”
– Retired New York Supreme Court Judge Karen Smith, working as a legal observer after the raids on Zucotti Park this Tuesday, via Paramilitary Policing of Occupy Wall Street: Excessive Use of Force amidst the New Military Urbanism (via seriouslyamerica)
“It is tendentious and dishonest to say simply that Gaddafi was ‘killing his own...”
– Hugh Roberts · Who said Gaddafi had to go? · LRB 17 November 2011
“Some time later there was a song in the jukeboxes on the Upper East Side that...”
– Joan Didion, obvi.
October 2011
11 posts
Bested by technology, chronicle number one million...
Wrote a cover letter directly into the online application. Hit submit. The system, which had given me no prior warnings that this would happen, told me I’d been logged out because of inactivity for 30 minutes. My cover letter is lost. What.
“The 5th police district, which includes the Roseland and Pullman neighborhoods...”
– In High-Crime Areas, Still Too Few Police - Chicago News Cooperative
“Brian Moynihan is here tonight. He’s the C.E.O. of Bank of America. As many of...”
– Live From New York, It’s Steve Schwarzman - NYTimes.com (via felixsalmon)
“If it’s illegal and wrong to capture suspected terrorists and detain them...”
– “Obama Administration’s Al-Awlaki Memo Furthered Bush Legacy,” Noah Feldman (international law prof at Harvard Law School), Bloomberg
“At a time of record corporate profits, a time when 14 million Americans are out...”
– The Woman Who Knew Too Much | Politics | Vanity Fair
