May 2012
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Wherein I review a good book of stories concerning... →
the internet is the machine! yes yes yes
April 2012
18 posts
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24. Writers also have an affection for the tricky or vaguely cosmic last line....
– From “Theory and Practice of Editing New Yorker Articles,” by Wolcott Gibbs, quoted in James Thurber, The Years With Ross (via michelledean)
They will be 23.
– McSweeney’s Internet Tendency: Failure Map. (via hobartpulp)
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Six Days (no interesting images here!)
On Thursday, I went running at the very end of dusk. I saw bats on the lake and a sign that said they were rabid, so don’t touch the dead ones. I knew this since I can remember, DON’T TOUCH BATS, but every summer my dad always had new people-touching-dead-bats stories to tell. A girl in a stroller passing me said, “Gramma, look at the long line on that duck.” And it was:...
SEE FREE TUMBLE: My Puffy Face Moment: VIVA LA... →
kristin-fitzsimmons:
Whoa 638 retumbles already. Methinks C-Free, Safety Monitor Extraordinaire, is onto something here.
friedlanduh:
YOU BETTER START RUNNING FASTER, HONEY, BECAUSE YOU NEED TO LOSE ANOTHER 20 POUNDS BEFORE YOU GET AWAY WITH RUNNING IN A SPORTS BRA!
This comment, like most cowardly things, was not said to my face, but rather in passing as I ran past a group of guys on St....