February 2012
22 posts
Oh, I hate when they do this →
This criticism, in which the “critic” poses among the “lowly journalists” is so full of snark that it comes across as insecurity; so full of itself it comes across as needy.
There’s hardly a grain in here of real content. Instead, it’s the behind-the-scenes paraded as scenes; though really, if you think about it, there’s hardly anything there at all. The...
"I recognized every part of his behavior from... →
satire?
I had come to find him at his work – a speakeasy called Haberdashery. It was nooked behind East Seventh street, down a horse lane in a former carriage house. To get in, you had to speak into a tin-can telephone tied to a poplar then knock on a section of pipe outside the door. Inside, you could only order cocktails with names like The Ginger Sue and Grape’s Levine. Everyone there was a banker...
reading probably too much muriel spark & it's...
On the walk back, heaving that ungainly box of organic, coal-fired pizza, made from a yeast starter from 1893, I saw nothing, smelling only tomato froth and the heavenly pierce of basil. These were tastes I had not known before he came, metonymies for all I would never learn now that he was gone. I became despondent and self-pitying—the woman all women become when spurned by a man, they forget...
What I hand in to Cowles he looks over quick. We’re in a little bar, 1940’s booths, 1930s tumblers, 1920s drinks. I’m in a 1960s dress – fake Pucci – and half-full of 1970s barbiturates. He puts his hand on my hand, 1980s-like, all power. “It looks good,” he says. “Looks good.” He reads over the last few pages, while I’m sipping.
“So you decided to keep it,” he says. “And...
this is completely fascinating →
“His Holiness, the Dalai Lama, has said that having the mantra on your computer works the same as a traditional Mani wheel. As the digital image spins around on your hard drive, it sends the peaceful prayer of compassion to all directions and purifies the area.”
*This is what I found in a google search while looking to see if there was a Christian prayer one says for dead machinery....
“I traveled to Manchuria with a tour group and then went on to Beijing alone. Upon arriving there, however, I suddenly felt as if I had discovered the dream or vision that had all this time been lying dormant inside me, a longing within my heart. This was not simply a matter of my being taken with the city’s scenery; rather I felt extremely close to the people there. I was moved by...
scene after break-up over iPhone usage
She made a gesture, like she was gagging. “To me—To me, he sounds like some Hasid. If I’m being culturally insensitive, fuck it. I’d rather marry an animal — like a little white dog that I could walk around — than marry a Hasid. You were two people living in entirely different eras.”
I mulled this over. If it were true, I wanted so badly to go back to his...
T E L E D E N S I T Y *
“About 1893, the country leading the world in telephones per 100 persons (teledensity) was Sweden.”
* my new favorite word
January 2012
7 posts
$ and love
It was not difficult to convince J. to join. In a way, I guess I knew already at that point that he was in love with me. For I knew I could ask him to do numbers of ridiculous things, from which he could otherwise not profit – and I knew that the world worked in this economic way, for I had read the recession as a personal attack, feeling that the world had deliberately spurned me.
Of course this exists
I just discovered the world of collecting “vintage” computers from the 1980s, researching a story, and it is completely amazing. I want one!!!
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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Wiki
… 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
….
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... →
