May 2013
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Cat Power—“The Moon”
Never...
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Loving the rain tonight—D.C. has been far too hot and restless this week. Windows are very much cracked here in my bedroom.
An old college friend visited, one of my flatmates from when I lived in London. He’s a doctor now, which is hard to believe, and in town for interviews. I showed him around a little, grabbed some drinks with him, some meals. He crashed on my couch those couple...
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Whats So Bad About Likable Characters? →
Quick: Whats the most unforgivable sin a writer can commit in fiction? A writerly crime so awful that major, award-winning novelists are condemning it on the pages of Publishers Weekly and inveighing against it in The New Yorker? If you said lazy plotting, dull language, or cardboard-thin characters, well, shame…
The question of how likeable characters should be in fiction is one I find ...
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“New research shows the sound of a person’s voice strongly influences how...”
– Sometimes it’s all how you say it
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“Listen, I remember feeling the same way when I was in my mid-20s,” said the...”
– 24-Year-Old Receives Sage Counsel From Venerable 27-Year-Old
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“Now I remember why I never felt interested in being part of the riot grrrl...”
– On the riot grrrl era
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“You have to decide who you are and force the world to deal with you, not with...”
– James Baldwin (via ladyvenoms)
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Win some pie and coffee time with Kyle MacLachlan →
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“You only demand clarity because you’re too comfortable within your vagueness;...”
– Albert Camus, from Notebooks, 1951-1959 (via violentwavesofemotion)
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Rilo Kiley—“It’ll Get You...
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“I tell my piano the things I used to tell you.”
– Frédéric Chopin (via decembrist)
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“The research arm of dating site OKCupid looked at 500,000 first contacts and...”
– Apostrophe now: Bad grammar and the people who hate it Read: BBC News (via brooklynmutt)
I find this validating.
(via ihla-blurred)
That’s about right.
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My desk includes Italian chocolates, a box of cake, biscotti, five hourglasses, and multiple bottles of liqueurs.
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The Magnetic Fields—“No One Will Ever...
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This visit back to St. Louis is too brief but successful. My sister’s graduation ceremony and our family party were smooth and enjoyable. I can’t believe it’s been five years since I finished undergrad and four since my Master’s. 26 doesn’t seem like an age that should have that great a distance from college graduation but it does. My sister’s leaving for...
“I had made no conscious decision to be single, but love is rare and it is...”
– On desire
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On Conflating Your Job with Your Identity
spiers:
Here’s a thing I wrote for Medium on the dreaded question “What do you do?”:
Among the niceties and travails of meeting people for the first time, there’s no more loaded question than “What do you do?” I would almost prefer to respond to “What is your favorite sexual position?” or “How do you feel about your mother?” because people would be less likely to read into my answer.
I have...
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My house held a little barbeque last night, which seemed perfectly timed in some ways. Multiple friends of mine are leaving the city today—one to Maine, one to Detroit. I know others gone too this weekend, to Chicago, to the state of New York. I’ll be flying out to St. Louis a couple hours after work and there till Sunday.
I’ve also been pulled into a vicious cycle of cicada...
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@tbdonfoot thought of your blog when i posted this massive list of street sightings on foot in DC: wp.me/p2jXar-Zq
— mary doman (@minutespermile) March 27, 2013
I like that my life as a transportation blogger isn’t completely forgotten close to a year after it ended.
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Telekinesis—“Ghosts and...
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