December 2011
1 post
insights from my mom while watching X Factor
“look at this 15-year-old dancing. stupid.” -on Justin Bieber
“I’m so glad you don’t dance for rappers. that’s not success.”
“why don’t people have names? 50 cent? Nee-yo? Pitbull? Jesus is coming, honey.”
“maybe they’ll get married.” -final two contestants duet
October 2011
3 posts
December 2010
1 post
November 2010
1 post
“being a mom is like being dead.”
– my mom
October 2010
3 posts
old-school funny
“There’s a clip of Don Rickles. Still unbelievable. It’s in the ’70s, I imagine. He’s filling for Johnny Carson. And he’s in the audience, doing crowd work, and there was this attractive black woman. He stands her up and asks her a few questions. He’s not done talking to her, but she just decides to sit back down on her own. And he turns to the...
a letter
my mom was sorting through some old papers and found a note my little brother wrote to her when he was seven or eight, just after they had gotten into some kind of fight. enjoy:
All I did from the very beginning was love you. I never stopped. We always used to say I love you to the moon, or I love you more than life itself. But now when you say I don’t love you that hurts more than...
September 2010
4 posts
I came to love You late, O Beauty so ancient and new; I came to love You late. You were within me and I was outside, where I rushed about wildly searching for You like some monster loose in Your beautiful world. You were with me, but I was not with You. You called me, You shouted to me, You wrapped me in Your splendor, You sent my blindness reeling. You gave out such a delightful fragrance, and I...
“to have found God and still to pursue Him is the soul’s paradox of love...”
– a.w. tozer
plans
spent ten minutes sitting behind an armored truck in traffic today … decided that robbing a bank is totally on my bucket list.
August 2010
8 posts
Watch
what is the point?
sometimes i wonder.
“[A]ny deal that doesn’t preserve the freedom and openness of the Internet for...”
– -F.C.C. Chairman Genachowski.
The vagueness of the Google/Verizon proposal makes me nervous. Details, please.
July 2010
1 post
“There was steel in her voice when she rapped; she sang like she really cared...”
– npr interview with lauryn hill
June 2010
3 posts
“man, if i was back home, i’d be swingin’ … two chicks on my...”
– “another saturday night”
to do
slow my thoughts to the speed of my pen.
May 2010
2 posts
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April 2010
8 posts
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making plans
me: why do i want to do everything?
jen: because if we tried, we could RULE the WORLD
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“according to the girls scouts web site, you cannot buy them online. you know...”
– john mulaney
Watchthis is truth.
more action
that is all.
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“Daddy, what rhymes with Pierzynski?”
This story in the NYTimes, describing how Dave Revsine and his 8-year-old daughter have bonded over the White Sox, is loveliness.
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“Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words.”
– dorothy parker
March 2010
12 posts
“I thought you were dead! But then I thought I was dead myself! Is everything sad...”
– sam gamgee
“For all sad words of tongue and pen, the saddest are these, ‘It might have...”
– John Greenleaf Whittier (via housingworksbookstore)
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my friend's cousin . . .
who knew there were so many types of bitches? loved #18, but think i tend to fall into #12.
the follow up post reminded me why i firmly believe comments should always be disabled.
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Watch“studies show that if you’re a lady, most men want to kill you.” (it’s funny because it’s true.)
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making lemonade
me: ...know what's hard? making the best of things. lemons into lemonade...
kate: ...look, there's a time and a place for making lemonade, see? for looking on the bright side, and making the best of things. but you can't make lemonade out of a pile of...dog shit. impossible. and that's what we're dealing with here...
“sometimes i’ll do something and i’ll think to myself … that is...”
– zach galifianakis
“If you want to make an audience laugh, you dress a man up like an old lady and...”
– Tina Fey (via iamnotdiddy)
home again
yesterday i came home from a trip. i did not feel rested, but i did find rest. old things that had been weighing on me were released, or something like that. i came home different. today, something sneaky tried to steal my rest. but i am not having it. i will cling to my peace. for longer than a day, at least.
February 2010
6 posts
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Watchthis is a trailer.
