January 2012
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IT IS NOT SO MUCH THAT I MISS YOU by Dorothea...
It is not so much that I miss you as the remembering which I suppose is a form of missing except more positive, like the time of the blackout when fear was my first response followed by love of the dark.
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“Find your obsession and photograph the hell out of it.”
– Ryan McGinley
December 2011
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January 24th, 1946 Dear Jean, I was so sorry to hear about your bird dying, Why don’t you write a story about Chips ? Just as if you were writing to me, and tell all about it right from the beginning, and all the cute things she did. That’s what makes stories interesting, to have all the little details just as if you were telling a friend, and soon you’ll find how easy...
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Self-Help for Nerds - Chris Hardwick
Whether it’s games, alcohol, painted figurines, film continuity, or conversations where we’re convinced someone doesn’t like us because of something we said, nerds obsess. We zealously deconstruct. We have that very active internal monologue. I think many of the things we undertake are, in part, attempts to drown out that monologue. We are hyper-self-aware. We have difficulty “chilling out.” We...
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November 2011
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Who Needs Us? by Dorianne Laux
The quiet, the bitter, the bereaved, the going forth of us, the coming home, the drag and pull of us, the tome and teem and tensile greed of us, the opening and closing of us, our eyes, in sleep, our crematorium dreams?
The brush of us one against another, the crumple on the couch of us, the spring in our step, the sequestered dance in front of the cracked mirrors of us, our savage suffering, our...
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"Fire" - Nick Flynn
more the idea of the flame than the flame, as in: the flame of the rose petal, the flame of the thorn the sun is a flame, the dog’s teeth flames ~ to be clear: with the body, captain, we can do as we wish, we can do as we wish with the body but we cannot leave marks—capt’n I’m trying to get this right ~ the world’s so small, the sky’s so high we pray for rain it rains, we pray for sun it...
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Scarecrow on Fire - Dean Young
Everything is brushed away, off the sleeve, off the overcoat, huge ensembles of assertions just jars of buttons spilled, recurring nightmare of straw on fire, you the scarecrow, the scare, the crow, totems gone, rubies flawed, flamingo in hyena’s jaws, noble and lascivious mouth of the gods hovering then gone, gone the glances, gone moths, cities of crystal become cities of mud, centurion and...
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“Stronger than our fear that we can’t make a difference is our instinct to...”
– Lori Deschene
wherewolves:
Research research research:
Is the name ‘Curl Up and Dye’ for a hairdressers’ a UK-only thing? Because I could direct you to at least three in a 2-mile radius of my house, and I hope it’s the same for you guys.
This is the single most greatest thing in the history of names, and I thank you for bringing this to my attention. BRB seeing if there are any near me.
October 2011
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“Friendship is unnecessary. It has no survival value; rather it is one of those...”
– C.S. Lewis
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“We seek not rest but transformation.
We are dancing through each other as...”
– Marge Piercy
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“I believe in the value of specific histories. The more I write, the more I know...”
– Sady Doyle, The Percentages: A Biography of Class
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Catch A Body by Oliver Bendorf
Salinger, I’m sorry, but “Don’t ever tell anybody anything” is a string of words I would like to wrap up in canvas and sink to the bottom of the Hudson, or extract by laser from the ribcage of all of us who ever believed it, who felt afraid to miss someone, to be the last one standing. “Tell everyone everything” is not exactly right, but I do believe that if your mother looks radiant in violet you...
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“It gives me great joy to make music; even telling dark and horrible stories, I...”
– John Darnielle of The Mountain Goats
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“What I find frustrating is that I’m not a sort of ‘All right luv, I’m down at...”
– David Cameron, UK Prime Minister, perfectly sums up his views on women. So articulate.
Nice one, Cam.
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September 2011
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The World Has Need of You by Ellen Bass
…everything here seems to need us…
— Rilke
I can hardly imagine it as I walk to the lighthouse, feeling the ancient prayer of my arms swinging in counterpoint to my feet. Here I am, suspended between the sidewalk and twilight, the sky dimming so fast it seems alive. What if you felt the invisible tug between you and everything? A boy on a bicycle rides by, his white shirt open, flaring...
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“The most obvious, but never mentioned, prediction about the future is that it...”
– Alain de Botton
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Candid Portraits of People Peering at Their Own...
Moa Karlberg captured these unique candid portraits of strangers by using a one-way mirror, capturing what it looks like when people look at reflections of themselves.