January 2012
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People are hilarious.
What does it say about a person when they are riding on the subway and seeing something saying, “That is blog-worthy,” or Twitter-worthy, or any other social network…worthy?
Earlier today, I saw a little girl wearing an Alaskan Malamute head for a hat. The sides of the hat, what must have been sheared off the shoulders of this dog, dangled down to this little girl’s shoulders. Otherwise,...
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The incomparable Jordan D. White, editor of...
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“Basically, what I learned from Japan is that creativity isn’t solely the domain...”
– Momus, in this fascinating interview with Marie Calloway at The Rumpus.
I’ve only recently begun noticing the work of Momus, mostly because of the attention to the Marie Calloway thing, but I’ve started becoming more and more intrigued with their work. This particular section from the...
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SOPA.
Today there will be no posting. For a bit this morning I was thinking: there are an awful lot of people posting on and about Blackout day, but aren’t they missing the point? There isn’t supposed to be any content. Isn’t not posting protesting the bill? Depends on who you ask, I guess. Doesn’t matter. I’m posting because I support the protest and we need to do all we...
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“There is a danger in believing that all of anxiety is somehow wrong or a problem...”
– My friend Tim Brearton on my friend Lana Del Rey.
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“Not only is his over-all tendency like mine—making knowledge the most powerful...”
– from Nietzsche’s postcard to Overbeck, written July 30, 1881 in Sils Maria, from The Portable Nietzsche.
This book makes me question everything I do. From this blog to the files and folders and notebooks in my filing cabinet and how all of this stuff could be assembled into a portable edition...
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Tintin as a Gonzo Journalist. →
I love it. The reasons being: he packs heat, he never takes notes, his sidekick is a drunk, he never files expense reports, he’s 14, and the story is always about him.
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“For my whole career, I always said that the best path to making someone laugh is...”
– Chris Onstad, in an excellent interview with Laura Hudson on the return of ACHEWOOD.
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“Over the next few months we agreed on the topic of film language and drew up a...”
– from R. John Williams’ article on “What It’s Like to be James Franco’s Professor” at Slate.
What is interesting to me is this study of film as a grammar or language, which is something I wrote in my new introduction to my expanded thesis. A lot of the scholarly work...
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Write Place, Write Time: Joe Hill →
Austin pointed me in the direction of a blog that satisfies my obsession with writers’ offices. Called “Write Place, Write Time” here is the entry on Joe Hill’s office with his corgi:
Over on the eastern side of the office, there’s an eyebrow window with a view of the street and the woods beyond. Beneath it is the couch where I read over manuscripts and nap extensively....
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Internet Identity.
Felt like I needed to take a bit of a hiatus from the Internet. On Christmas Day, in the wee hours, I tweeted: “Live your life somewhere that isn’t online. Try it. Merry Christmas, everyone.” And decided that I was going to abstain from interacting with the Internet for a week, until New Year’s Day and instead just think about my identity, the things that I put forth. A week of reflection...
December 2011
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christmas cards.
I’m in the Duane Reade on the corner of Broadway and Steinway earlier tonight, having just finished my Shakespeare final and officially being a done student of the Masters of English program at Brooklyn College. That is if the Dean of the Humanities approves my thesis, which is looking kinda sketchy since she’s sent six of them back this semester. The saga never ends.
So, I’m...
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“1940-Amplive Remix” by The...
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Dress and Writing Students.
At the reading Wednesday night I began to think about the MFAers in the audience, particularly their style. Somewhat disheveled and freshly rolled out bed, or rolled out from behind their desks at home where they no doubt take coffee intravenously, and shoved suddenly into the public with little time to prepare themselves. They wear stuff that shows that they don’t care, that the words are the...
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Thursday Night in Sad Single Town.
I’m prepared:
Movie (Super 8)
Chips (Barbecue Pop Chips)
Strawberry Milk (Shut up, it’s delicious)
You know those moments when it’s just you on the sidewalk. No one in front or behind you and you just revel it for a moment.
I had that tonight walking back from the Blockbuster machine at the Duane Reade on Steinway.
I love moments like that. For once you’re not in...
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This interview. →
That Ned did with Molly McAleer is pretty much exactly what I was referring to with this post. Also, great job, Ned. Really interesting stuff.
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For the last time.
This place where the Giants play is called New Jersey, it is not in New York State. They have no business being called the “New York” Giants. Call them what they should be called, where they play, they are the New Jersey Giants. Your argument to the contrary will always be invalid.
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“To make a perfectly unified character out of all that one has done, as Nietzsche...”
– Nehamas on “How One Becomes What One Is,” at the end Nietzsche: Life as Literature.
What struck me about this, in our final faculty study group discussing this book, was not the occasionally blatantly obvious thought, but how my very actions have exemplified this. The original mission of...
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