June 2012
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Nora Ephron. →
“Maybe young women don’t wonder whether they can have it all any longer, but in case any of you are wondering, of course you can have it all. What are you going to do? Everything, is my guess.”
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“I believed that I wanted to be a poet, but deep down I just wanted to be a poem.”
– Jaime Gil de Biedma
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McSweeney's. →
“So treat your demons with the respect they deserve, and with enough prescriptions to keep you wearing pants.”
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Practically every conversation I have about what I...
Person: What do you write?
Me: It's mostly creative nonfiction.
Person: Like memoirs?
Me: Yes, of a geisha.
Person: What?
Me: I write essays. I'm an essayist.
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When I think about breaking the silence, it gets...
When I tie up the trash to throw it down the chute, wet coffee grounds spill over into wasabi, chemicals mingling until everything is black. I hear it fall eleven floors down, down into the basement, where I’m sure the chopsticks slip through a hole at the top where the bow wasn’t strong enough to keep it all together. It’s breakfast and lunch, mixed up with everything else down...
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Some people are into feet, others into meat, and...
If the person you’re with doesn’t see why you’re special - and everyone is special, even if it takes some digging to figure out the specifics - don’t fuck them. If you only do yourself one favor a weekend, a month, or a year, make it that one. Don’t fuck people who don’t care what makes you you.
If you know how many dogs they had growing up and they don’t...
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“I like people but when I get too close, it fucks me up and I can’t get things...”
– Henry Rollins
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Be human, be proud - desperate, uncritical, and...
I tell her politely, distractedly, that something’s broken and I can’t fix it. She asks what, like she’s looking for a dustpan, like she’s about to smooth over whatever I’ve done. Nothing - nothing, I tell her - I’m just going to make myself dinner. On the counter, there’s a block of knives, a banana, and my hands go there. My legs are sore from the...
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Today's required reading. →
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Flower holder! →
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“In trance she died, and in trance she is Un-Dead…”
– Bram Stoker, Dracula
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31 DIY crafts. →
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I write (academic?) things. →
I’m the most recent contributing author for College Prowler’s guide to the University of San Francisco. It will eventually become an e-book, but for now, you can read about me (college-approved me) and read all the content I’ve written about the school and its city online (ex: nightlife, off-campus housing, etc.).
I make no money from this, just a warm glow and a nice addition...
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A non-answer to the question of how to make love...
It’s not the same as the thought that women get paid less than men, or the thought that he may have left because of me, that sometimes even I want to leave because of me. None of that matters in this room. There’s no overhead light, just a window that refuses to show itself to me. The curtain looks and feels heavy, like my eyelids upon entering. I close the door. I leave my shoes. I...
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“Nothing’s changed. Some books are, often inexplicably, bestsellers. That’s been...”
– Neil Gaiman
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“I want to be famous in the way a pulley is famous,
or a buttonhole, not...”
– Naomi Shihab Nye, Famous
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Grocery List
Be more forgiving. Substitute, “goodbye” for “I like your face.” Spend two nights a week not drinking to forget. Listen to your body. Listen to someone else’s body. Get limber, Don’t dog yourself to feel humble. It never works. Lift others up onto your back until you are sore. Write for yourself a movie that doesn’t end. Eat a churro slowly. Kiss your mother on the cheek and don’t miss. ...
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Single. →
“We’re trying our hardest out here to find someone we like enough to introduce to our friends, really we are, this doesn’t make us bad people but rather it makes us discerning people who just haven’t found their ‘missing piece’ yet, to quote Shel Silverstein.”
