December 2011
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“I hope you will have a wonderful year, that you’ll dream dangerously and...”
– -Neil Gaiman (I’ve posted this quote before, maybe even twice, but I just find it so beautiful and appropriate everytime the new year arrives. What two better things to be, than to be wise, and kind?)
“May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope...”
– Neil Gaiman (via fuckyeahhappy)
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“I know this kind of girl,” Grace was saying. “It’s the worst...”
– Super Sad True Love Story by Gary Shteyngart
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On Being Impressed:
Just enough to make me tilt my head and exclaim,
huh, I never thought about it that way-
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Fulfilling a lifelong dream and seeing fucking...
Things I think about often but rarely talk about
inner kerfuffles
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Today I saw a man nearly die right in front of me,...
and then I realized that even though there have been people close to me who have died, that moment when I was sitting in the restaurant - watching the man whisp in and out of consciousness - was the closest point near death I’ve ever been.
Terrifying.
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The only media platform that isn't blocked in...
“all my favorite people are broken.”
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The Two R's: Running & Relationships
Both are mental games.
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“Everyone has someone else. It’s suffocating.”
– -Nate Hopper
“He has a beard. He looks..distinguished.”
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I now refer to the imminent future after...
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“Journalism is a feedback mechanism to help society self-correct. We know from...”
– Why Solutions Journalism Matters, Too by David Bornstein from The New York Times
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“Listen, you lazy bitch.”
– Hunter S. Thompson
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Babies
So cute from:
afar
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“I’ve had good times with some bad guys. I’ve told whole lies with a...”
– Cheerleader, by St. Vincent, “Strange Mercy” (2011)
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“It’s a middle school. This isn’t– like– where you’re starting...”
– -This American Life, Middle School
“A lot of people want to find other people interesting; it’s the appeal in...”
This is a bad year for dictators.
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“That mystery is not the curse of our existence; it’s the wonder. It’s what...”
– DEAR SUGAR, The Rumpus Advice Column #92: Your Invisible Inner Terrible Someone
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Winter Break Itinerary
December 20th, 2011: Arcadia, California
December 26th-January 1st, 2012: Shanghai, China
January 1st-January 4th, 2012: Hong Kong, Hong Kong
January 4th-January 11th, 2012: Taipei, Taiwan
January 15th, 2012: Syracuse, NY
Follow along as I document my travel in Asia!
And that's our denouement.
Things I think about often but rarely talk about
‘See you Laters’
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Ice Skating–
The feeling of:
high-heels on ice,
drunk.
Things I Do Not Understand And Definitely Am Not...
thingsidontunderstandand:
Do not measure a person’s worth by the number of pieces of Spanx you put on when you get dressed before you see them.
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“Angie, no guys willing wear turtlenecks right now. Give them like…3 years.”
– Eric Zeleznik
Things I think about often but rarely talk about
The eventual theme of someone’s partial happiness
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“If being restored to life doesn’t count as something that doesn’t kill you, then...”
– Trial of the Will by Christopher Hitchens, published in Vanity Fair (January 2012)
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Glasses
They give me: selective eyesight
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The Big Bad Wolf and the Three Oinks
The big bad wolf was hungry for love so he sauntered throughout the village, looking for anyone who would give him a piece of their hearts. He first met oink number one and fell for her edgy, pig skin. She gave him a piece of her heart, very little of it, but she did. Once he had enough, chewed enough skin, he left oink number one. Still distraught, he came across oink number two. Oink number two...
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Pet Names
Find someone else who responds to
‘baby’
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Poetry
What a load of self-indulgent
bullshit?
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Hipster Men
Me: I need to stop dating hipster guys. It's too much to handle.
Harry: Well, you're writing an English paper and listening to classical music; I think you have no choice.
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“Don’t date a girl who reads because girls who read are the storytellers. You...”
– You Should Date an Illiterate Girl by Charles Warnke
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On Using Men's Body Wash
(It) just makes me feel more like a:
lady.
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Heels
We wear them for
ourselves;
never for You.
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Your Hemingway jaw
just silenced my
lips.
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I wake up each morning and silently ask myself,...
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“Desperate don’t look good on you. Neither does your virtue.”
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Chemistry
It’s all in our
heads.
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Malaise
a routine itch.
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Sushi
When did it become a sorority thing?
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My father's ex-mistress:
What a bitch.