May 2012
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high & listening to Xiu Xiu while reading Achewood in a post-camping haze. this is the most Portland I’ve been in awhile.
polyamory etiquette questions:
1. what do you wear to meet you fiance’s girlfriend’s primary partner?
2. is it poor form to start wooing someone a few weeks before your wedding? do you invite them?
I never even got the hang of standard conventional human relationships & interactions…
Short, snappy, easily attempted, easily completed or just as easily discarded...
– Richard Kluger from Franzen’s How to be Alone (via frenchy-a)
one of the most Lola moments ever: my dog watches, hypnotized, as I eat cottage cheese while listening to “Venus in Furs” by the Velvet Underground.
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don’t worry when you feel something. worry when you don’t.
– Don Cragen, Law & Order: SVU 1.5
Season 1 of SVU is full of truth bombs.
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You know who my gods are, who I believe in fervently? Herman Melville, Emily...
– Maurice Sendak on religion and faith. [complete interviews here] (via nprfreshair)
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start-anywhere:
feelingofgaze:
I can’t help but feel like this particular melodrama circa 2000 could have been solved by my mother hearing Wayne’s lecture on Adrienne Rich’s “Diving Into the Wreck” & the dissolution of the subject-object relation.
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i’m pretty sure this was a way better use of time than revising said paper.
oh, it was. I have no regrets. the paper got in when...
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hey guys, remember the time I took some medicine to help me focus on rapidly revising a paper due in the morning and ended up sitting on the couch for three hours straight picking my split ends & thinking about my childhood, eventually having a “breakthrough” about how my “internalized biphobia” (ie why I am so self-conscious & secretive & weird) is in part...
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At its best, criticism is itself a form of indirect self-expression. To read,...
– This Slate piece, in part on Jonathan Lethem’s 33 1/3 book, is really good. (via katherinestasaph)
SUPER relevant to the “report” I just submitted for my Master of Arts degree in literature. in which I talk overtly about my personal life. because can’t we just skip to the part...
hmmm… maybe I shouldn’t have started my celebratory post-Masters-report-submission bender before have actually submitted my Masters report. or before I have to finish a novel and bake cookies for the class I’m teaching at 8 AM. on the other hand, I am really proud of my work. and hey, professors paid for the booze.
guess I’ll go submit the online part, smoke a celebratory...