October 2011
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“Does everything you touch turn to shit? Does this happen to you every time?”
– Denis Johnson, Jesus’ Son
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September 2011
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“We are healthy only to the extent that our ideas are humane.”
– Kurt Vonnegut, Breakfast of Champions
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Paulo Coelho is a pirate. →
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Seventeen Years - Ratatat.
Expectations/reality (oh, and you can keep that...
You want to hear:
It’s me! I’ve got a lot of issues, but you’re not one of them
I wasn’t ignoring you, I was just busy cleaning my apartment
I changed my mind - I want all the same things that you want
I wish I could say:
I’m sorry, but you’re kind of a dick and I don’t want that in my life
Not just right now, but I mean ever, forever - whichever...
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“People never quantify exactly how much space they really need. Do they? But...”
– Dylan Moran
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“What am I missing? Leave me in the night, but please don’t leave me in the dark.”
– Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume
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“I am, for the most part, failing. There are moments where I triumph.”
– Henry Rollins, Solipsist
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“Consider how very, very few of us have the equipment to deal with the obvious.”
– David Foster Wallace, Little Expressionless Animals
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Housing Works. →
This is my happy place when I go home to New York.
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“Myself in your skin, myself lodged in your bones, myself floating in the...”
– Jeanette Winterson, Written on the Body
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Float like a butterfly.
I tell him why I’ve had this thought for so long - brewing slowly in the back of my mind, always threatening to come forward. It has so little to do with our signs and everything to do with who’s been here before - whether or not they did what they promised to do, if our vacation plans fell through, how I can still feel like an adult after everything’s been raked over and...
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“We’re all lonely for something we don’t know we’re lonely for. How else to...”
– David Foster Wallace
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"Hi, doggy." →
I live in a city that showcases this movie at least once a month. In actual theaters. Really.
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Nightswimming - R.E.M.
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“I haven’t the slightest idea how to change people, but I still keep a long list...”
– David Sedaris, Naked
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Atheists, vegans, & other collective memories of...
Looking up at this particular face, I realize that I’m having the same conversation in a new setting. Only now I’m not afraid that I’m going to storm out into the rain and be done with it, another disposable month come and gone.
People are different. We have the distinct, exciting privilege of being different, of celebrating these tiny fragments of personality, and liking each...
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