January 2012
3 posts
lovely prose -- especially the end →
December 2011
2 posts
November 2011
5 posts
missing new york =
being invited to the steiner studios annual party and not being able to go and having this kind of madame bovary moment, looking at my cooped up dancing shoes.
Looking for classes
It’s really great to go to a state school with 10,000 classes. I am so not taking this, but… is it egomaniacal to say I kind of want to teach it?
Comm 3231 Reality TV: History, Culture, and Economics
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… For three years in the early 1960s, Lish taught as an English teacher at Mills High School, Millbrae, California. His high school teaching career ended when school administrators declined to give him tenure. Donovan Bess, writing in The Nation Magazine, wrote that “essentially, Lish is accused: of reciting the Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag too speedily (time: 8.7 seconds);...
October 2011
7 posts
editing
hate to see this go
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He toys with her drink, with the olive on the little sword, placing it finally so that it’s just balanced over her glass and seems about to tip in. Maybe something will be open, somewhere where they can dance, she says.
“What’s the difference between you and this olive,” he says.
“I don’t know.”
“It’s balanced.”
who said student work can't be inspiring
Just re-wrote a student’s story in one paragraph as an example to them of the power of paraphrasing to get through things quickly… This is the most fun exercise ever. Paraphrase a carver short story (or something that has good airspace) into one P.
There was a yellow-haired girl in Deirdre’s waiting room with a picture of the Grand Canyon taped to her binder. I told her that 48...
Ridiculous narrative digressions
He gets back in the cab, and says that because he feels very tired he is going to hold them all to a discussion to keep him awake. He and his German colleagues like to do this very much, but they focus mainly on philosophy, on philosophical concepts, or major ideas. For instance, he thinks his stance on love has changed.
Mr Hauser says that as a boy, he used to think love was just getting used to...
Tool for productivity
Not paying for the internet at my house anymore and I don’t have a DVD drive. I basically live like a monk. I wrote 40 pages of my novel over the past four days. It’s mostly shit. Today, I went swimming in the lake. Last night I saw the band “Gay Witch Abortion.” MPLS ftw
September 2011
10 posts
2 tags
We're launching an art site tomorrow. →
yay. now i have a dream writing job. class warfare meets visual culture. money people pretty things nightlife awful people awful things.
This was the most fun thing to write about in all... →
August 2011
5 posts
about this movie i ordered on netflix because at...
I ordered “Unzipped” on YouTube and, tempted, re-watched its trailer. I had the realization that the film, which I had watched over and over as a middle-schooler and high-schooler, was what had completely defined me as a person. Not only do I still have memorized nearly all of its lines (“Iguana!”) but I have internalized its lesson: creative people suffer, but suffering is dumb. I...
i am sending letters to abercrombie and fitch offering to pay their staff not to watch the jersey shore. i know they CAN’T
Sen. Edward Kennedy and Rep. Edward Markey led an official protest over every New England state being excluded from Hands Across America. Political leaders in the south and Florida additionally weighed in against the route that was chosen to span the continental United States. Various protests broke out in the Upper Midwest, notably Minneapolis and Milwaukee, as well as northwestern cities such...
July 2011
11 posts
An experiment
What should I write about next? I’m currently sitting at a desk feeling very useless. This message should make me feel even more useless… as surely you will think of amazing things/projects/people while I just sit and wade through googlereader…
I will use this piece next year to teach my...
Investigators are looking into the possibility the boy stayed in Mr. Aron’s apartment during the day on Tuesday because Mr. Aron had a television – and the boy, at his home, did not have one, the official said.
“The boy – I don’t believe in the boy’s house that he had a television – but Aron has a television,” the official said. “It is a question of fascination with TV.”
from this week's nonsensenyc... SCIENCE:
as someone who grew up on beaches and have been stung by jellyfish three separate times, I am unhappy to report that:
Scientists say the number of jellyfish are on the rise thanks to the increasing acidity of the world’s oceans driving away the creatures’ natural predators. Studies have shown that higher levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere doesn’t just trigger climate...
WatchMy completely insane cat sleeps beneath a blanket of her own devising
June 2011
11 posts
from nonsense:
SATURDAY Colossal Garage Sale Renowned cartoonist and pop culture expert/collector Mark Newgarden is selling some of his prized possessions. Newgarden has long contributed his cheerfully sardonic vision to a variety of high and low media and continues to delight and disturb those kids of all ages. Creator of the 1980s non-PC icon Garbage Pail Kids for the Topps Co, Newgarden has long ...
$10k has already been pledged to build a pool in a... →
placesweusedtogo:
You know, that $25k could go towards actually cleaning up the water in the river instead of building a pool on top of it, you jackoffs. I mean, I get that this is “cool” from some theoretical architect wet dream standpoint but everyone backing this needs to rethink their entire lives.
Um, you guys do realize that the pool FILTERS THE EAST RIVER WATER SO IT LITERALLY IS...
This was fun to write →
