January 2011
14 posts
While on the phone with your significant other (an already infrequent occurrence, due to how often you see one another, texting, and gchat), it is imprudent to reiterate how much you hate talking on the phone.
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Ugandan Gay Rights Activist Is Beaten to Death →
Needless to say, I am disgusted and outraged. Like the 1994 Rwandan genocide, this was totally foreseeable. And just like then, nobody intervened. The forgotten continent, indeed. So sad.
dentist best friend: Is your tooth ok?
me: Truth be told I do have some pain but like my life, it's dull and I'm used to it.
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“I tried the key in all the doors, even though he said he didn’t recognize it....”
– Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
Bed 18 →
A truly heartbreaking piece about how life is so bad for Afghani girls & women, they’ve taken to setting themselves on fire.
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the mississippi river empties into the gulf
and the gulf enters the sea and so forth, none of them emptying anything, all of them carrying yesterday forever on their white tipped backs, all of them dragging forward tomorrow. it is the great circulation of the earth’s body, like the blood of the gods, this river in which the past is always flowing. every water is the same water coming round. everyday someone is standing on the edge of...
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On Pain
Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. Even as the stone of the fruit must break,that its heart may stand in the sun, so must you know pain. And could you keep your heart in wonder at the daily miracles of your life, your pain would not seem less wondrous than your joy; And you would accept the seasons of your heart, even as you have always accepted the...
“Calvin: Isn’t it strange that evolution would give us a sense of humor?...”
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The Fairy Shop →
I visited this fine little establishment while in Boston last week. Fun and unique inventory, super sweet owner. Totally jealous of his autographed pictures of Adam West, Burt Ward, and Julie Newmar.
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“He’d lost track of what he wanted, and since who a person was was what a person...”
– Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections
2010
Good:
Belatedly becoming a bat mitzvah, going to Israel, taking classes, and making friends through the Jewish Enrichment Center in Manhattan.
Meeting my significant other, an apt label for one of the best people I’ve ever come across in my life.
CONAN!
Bad:
everything else (namely boy drama and unemployment)
2011 will be a year of positive changes and improvements, hopefully with...
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“And so castles made of sand fall in the sea, eventually.”
– Jimi Hendrix