February 2012
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LSTN: SLOW DANCE by STARFUCKER →
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“Talent is its own expectation, Jim: you either live up to it or it waves a...”
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READ THIS: INTERVIEW WITH BLACK ART DECO SCULPTOR,... →
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WATCH THIS: WILD AT HEART by DAVID LYNCH →
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HELL IS A LONELY PLACE by CHARLES BUKOWSKI
he was 65, his wife was 66, had
Alzheimer's disease.
he had cancer of the
mouth.
there were
operations, radiation
treatments
which decayed the bones in his
jaw
which then had to be
wired.
daily he put his wife in
rubber diapers
like a
baby.
unable to drive in his
condition
he had to take a taxi to
the medical
center,
had difficulty speaking,
had to
write the directions...
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LSTN: COME TOGETHER by PNAU →
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“I ain’t afraid of no ghost.”
– “Ghostbusters,” Ray Parker Jr.
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“Wesson was one of those men who had passed his days waiting for the rest of his...”
– Kevin Brockmeier, “The Ceiling”
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January 2012
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“I voluntarily inflicted a certain level of insanity on myself.”
– Jonathan Franzen
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Watchthoroughbreded:
“The royal penis is clean, your highness.”
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READ: HUNTING, DEAR SIR? DELIGHTED! or WHO THE... →
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“Do not remove the ancient landmark that your ancestors set up.”
– The Hebrew Bible, Proverbs 22:28
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“A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of...”
– Thomas Paine
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The College Dropout:
I. How do you like college? I’m not sure who is asking this question, so please anticipate a response that is truly candid and perhaps even a bit luxuriant. Rather than shaping my answer to please one person or another, I’m going to be honest and, at times, surely offensive. So, thank you anonymous person for allowing me to explore my experiences without any reservations.
I’m a year and a half...
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READ: THE RISE OF THE NEW GROUPTHINK or FUCK OTHER... →
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“All autobiography is self-indulgent.”
– Daphne du Maurier
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You Should Really Read This Kid's Biography...
Let’s be honest, you probably hate me already.
I guess I’ll be as odious as possible early on and call myself a writer here. It’s the only skill I can even pretend to have anymore (NOTE: The ensuing summary in no way reflects my skills in said pursuit). Occasionally I post little tidbits of my work on here but, generally, I avoid that sort of shameless self-promotion.
My life is consumed by the...
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“Something humble, placid even, about inert feet under stall doors. The...”
– David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest
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LSTN: APHRIKA by SETH TROXLER →
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THE WORD: GERONTOCRACY
ger·on·toc·ra·cy (jrn-tkr-s)
n. pl.ger·on·toc·ra·cies
1. Government based on rule by elders.
2. A governing group of elders.
December 2011
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“Choose any hour on the clock. It is possible, then, to conceive that the...”
– Paul Harding, Tinkers The most salient passage in an otherwise utterly inane book.
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THE WORD: PYRRHIC VICTORY
A Pyrrhic victory (/ˈpɪrɪk/) is a victory with such a devastating cost to the victor that it carries the implication that another such victory will ultimately cause defeat.
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LSTN: A DAY IN THE LIFE by THE BEATLES →
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READ: THE UNLIKELY EVENT from THE PARIS REVIEW →
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“Don’t touch me, please. I cannot stand the way you tease.”
– Soft Cell, Tainted Love
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“Nobody could sleep. When morning came, assault craft would be lowered and a...”
– Norman Mailer, The Naked and The Dead
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LSTN: GET U HOME by SHWAYZE →
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“You may say that I lost everything, but I still had my bedazzler.”
– Lady Gaga, Marry the Night
November 2011
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“A creative person has to create. It doesn’t really matter what you create....”
– Katherine Dunham