October 2010
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September 2010
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She had come to Shanghai to pick up the starlet’s dog from a specialty kennel and Tan-Lin had come along to shop for a few last minute props: a salmon-colored rotary phone for the office scene in the makeup department, any type of eyeglass that extras could wear that would look like something of what they had in the 1930s. “Do they teach you this stuff at Beijing Film?”
“I’m in the...
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sawtooth:
John Titor is the name used on several bulletin boards during 2000 and 2001 by a poster claiming to be a time traveler from the year 2036. In these posts he made numerous predictions (a number of them vague, some quite specific) about events in the near future, starting with…
100 words a day of nonsense fluff resolution
Whenever someone mentions Olivia Wilde — you know, that most beautiful woman in the world — I think of the cartoonishness of childhood, of being on the bus to tennis practice behind her and Zoe in the eighth grade and listening to her coach another girl — Sidney, maybe — about the right height on your back to wear bra straps. I can see only my feet, at this instance —...
research...
Hengdian World Studios is the largest film studio in the world.[1] It is located in Hengdian, a village of Dongyang county in Zhejiang Province. The movie studio is operated by the privately-owned Hengdian Group founded by a farmer turned millionaire Xu Wenrong. Sometimes called “Chinawood”, Xu turned acres of farmland in central Zhejiang into one of the largest movie studio in...
The Slaughterhouse Novels
I had a dream that we met with Lorrie Moore and she showed us around. “These are my slaughterhouse novels,” she said, grazing a finger along a shelf. I asked Kate what the hell those were and she explained, “They’re all terrible. For the imprint Slaughterhouse. They killed the writers who didn’t perform.” It seems Moore survived but that she didn’t do well...
File it Under Things That Are Actually Real
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Etiquette Dinner
Thursday, October 28, 2010 - RSVP by October 21
5:00 p.m. Registration 5:30 - 7:30 p.m. Program & Dinner McNamara Alumni Center, Memorial Hall Do you know which fork is for your salad? Where do you place your napkin when leaving the table? Should you tell someone...
My memoir is on the homepage of N+1! But shhhhhh... →
DIDN'T REALIZE THAT WAS IN THERE!
“No,” I said. “I just know. I read Mary McCarthy.”
— Philip Roth, Goodbye Columbus
just learned this expression
老(lǎo)骥(jì)伏(fú)枥(lì), 志(zhì)在(zài)千(qiān)里(lǐ
Literally: The old horse in the stable still yearns to run 1000 li 1.
Moral: Everybody, no matter the inexperience, yearns to achieve great deeds.
The two human foods that my cat loves:
1. plain nonfat yogurt
2. tea
I think she is an old woman, my own grandmother, come back.
The Diary of a 6-Year-old Girl on a Whaling Ship,... →
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adrianeq:
Making Auntie Anne’s organic mac & cheese with soy milk is REALLY FUCKED UP
I once started making it and realized that I had no milk at all, so I mixed the juice/oil from a small jar of artichoke hearts (and the hearts themselves) with the pasta and cheese powder. It wasn’t terrible, but it wasn’t mac & cheese.
interesting. i feel like we tried to think outside...
Making Auntie Anne’s organic mac & cheese with soy milk is REALLY FUCKED UP
Meghan O'Rourke's Franzenfreude Essay is WONDERFUL... →
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doree:
“Depletion,” No Age
Sad and perfect.
I...
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I get a foster calico kitten tomorrow. It doesn’t have a name! What should I name it?
the worst tumblr ever
I am the most annoying person on Tumblr right now because I’m not in New York, and either:
A. Everything I write is like, a justification of why I left New York and I come off as defensive
or
B. People in New York don’t like to admit that other places have fun cool things and I come off braggy
or
C. I post really long boring fiction excerpts that are like, the thing I just wrote...
realism attempts
Elise knew of the Burnett’s Tree Farm only what she had seen from Glenbourne road. During the summer, the place was no more than a dry scratch of red fencing around a forest. Where the land sloped down to meet the road, you could watch the trees ticking off, row-after-row, as you drove by. There was a weathered shed – painted in candy-stripe – and she remembered standing there in line with her...
inspiring quotes for my multicultural lit...
Just lesson plannin’!
“I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.”
— Rainer Maria Rilke
“The function of freedom is to free someone else.”
— Toni Morrison
“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me...
Minneapolis has a book club where everyone gets drunk called Books & Bars, and the authors that are visiting this semester are Joan Didion, James Salter, Ian Frazier, Antonya Nelson, Dan Chaon, Gary Shteyngart, and less big names. Just bragging.
attempt at no interiority/ abstraction
On the long, yellow couch, Mrs. Burnett was sitting up straight, like a dark exclamation mark, when Elise came in. It was late afternoon. Light edged around the living room shades. Beneath the blare of the cartoons playing on the old television set, you could hear the wash of the highway through the trees. She could always go back.
“You’re looking for Todd?” Mrs. Burnett asked. Her...
concrete = emotion
“The kind of criteria or ideal I set up as writing was that for anybody who fanned through the book and put their finger down on a single word, every word is concrete. Concrete nouns and verbs. No abstract language. Everything that was abstract in the novel had to be embodied concretely. That was the only way I would be able to write in to abstract subjects and not have the book turn into...
Sweet!
My first edition/first-printing of Harding’s Tinkers is worth hundreds!
Sorry for the multiple ‘craigslist is hilarious’ postings — but this was under “antiques.”
Is this what my students will think?
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Just watched 500 Days of Summer on HBO. Is anyone...
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They were re-paving some streets in Bushwick — around the intersection of George & Wilson streets, where my boyfriend (and Ted Gordon) live.
A roomate asked a city worker why they were repaving — it had been pothole scarred for years. Was it federal stimulus funding? Nope. “There’s a Zooey Deschanel movie filming around here, the guy said.”
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