May 2012
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May 29th
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Wherein We Discuss Las Vegas And BiSC
So how was Vegas? The question is innocent enough, but how do you really express what you’re feeling? Goethe (or Biggie Smalls, I forget) once said—and I’m paraphrasing and translating (both Biggie and Goethe were fluent in German) here—if you don’t feel it, you’ll never get it. So how was Vegas? In some respects it was a gamble. After all, I knew...
May 27th
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May 24th
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May 23rd
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May 23rd
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May 7th
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“I like you a lot and I want to make something with you. I think we have serious...”
May 7th
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“I’ve learned to value failed conversations, missed connections, confusions. What...”
– Anna Kamienska, from A Nest of Quiet: A Notebook (translated by Clare Cavanagh)
May 4th
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April 2012
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Apr 29th
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Apr 27th
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What Lot's Wife Would Have Said (If She Wasn't A...
librariesandlemonade: Do you remember when we met in Gomorrah? When you were still beardless, and I would oil my hair in the lamp light before seeing you, when we were young, and blushed with youth like bruised fruit. Did we care then what our neighbors did in the dark? When our first daughter was born on the River Jordan, when our second cracked her pink head from my body like a...
Apr 26th
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“The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts,...”
– Charles Bukowski (via vied) Or as Yeats put it: “The best lack all conviction, while the worst / Are full of passionate intensity”
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“We have only one story. All novels, all poetry, are built on the never-ending...”
– J. Steinbeck, East of Eden
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March 2012
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“Yeah, we’ll see. Maybe she’ll be all “Wow, he’s handsome...”
– L asked me to describe what I hope the girl is thinking when we’re on a date. (I don’t get out much.)
Mar 16th
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ListenBlue Scholars - Motion Movement Speak to teach...
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