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By all accounts, we really should have died
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[Aug. 18th, 2009|08:29 pm] |
The Wikipedia page "List of City Nicknames in Colorado" includes:
Arvada: Celery Capital of the World
Brush: Brush!
Fairplay: The Real South Park
Fruita: Home of Mike the Headless Chicken
Greeley: Sayyid Qutb's Sodom and Gomorrah
Nederland: Home of the Frozen Dead Guy
So you can see why I'm really excited to be permanently back in this state. |
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| People are just people, they shouldn't make you nervous |
[May. 30th, 2009|07:04 pm] |
Confession: I am terribly lonely and ready to come home. Traveling is wonderful but traveling alone is perhaps not the best thing for me because I can't talk to people I JUST CAN'T DO IT why why why. Like everything else in my life for the past two years, this makes me wonder what I'll do when going back to Colorado and pretending I'm still in high school is not an option anymore.
Mope. Whatever. Europe is still pretty fucking cool. |
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[Apr. 26th, 2009|10:27 pm] |
Overheard yesterday: "I'm a nymphomaniac, but I'm also an herbivore. So I don't know."
What dilemma do you think this could possibly refer to? Lack of energy for sexual activity due to protein deficiency? Attempt to seduce someone who really, really loves steak? Barbecue-themed orgy? I just don't know why those two principles would ever conflict. |
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| go tell your fucking friends |
[Feb. 15th, 2009|12:32 am] |
By the time you swear you're his,
Shivering and sighing,
And he vows his passion is
Infinite, undying,
Lady, make a note of this —
One of you is lying.
--Dorothy Parker
Things that will help you get through six hours of selling condoms and chocolate to pretty much every couple in central Texas, should you ever find yourself in that situation. I should definitely listen to Bikini Kill more often. |
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[Feb. 6th, 2009|10:58 pm] |
Question: Is it possible to write a six-page paper about how this:
"If I am to die, I'll die! The loss to the world will not be large and, anyway, I myself am sufficiently bored."
is maybe the greatest two sentences ever? Because it really, really is. It's sharp and funny and sad and straightforward and self-justifying and bizarrely seductive and perfect. But I have to write six pages, and I can't just wax rhapsodic for all of them.
(The greatest two sentences ever are from A Hero of Our Time by Mikhail Lermontov, by the way, and the rest of the book almost lives up to them. You should read it.) |
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[Jan. 16th, 2009|12:24 am] |
| [ | music |
| | Say Hey--Michael Franti & Spearhead | ] |
I have to go back to Austin very soon. Thinking about it makes me want to throw a kicking, screaming tantrum. I DON'T WANNA.
Today I went to DSA to visit the creative writing department. Apparently everyone has to do science fair projects this year and there was one on display called "Nazi Zombies." Does anyone want to know why I don't know science? Walking down the hall was unbelievably awkward. I think I should be over high-school awkwardness by now. I am a fucking graduate, I should OWN the halls of that school. Oh well. |
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[Dec. 12th, 2008|02:11 am] |
Writers do not write what they want, they write what they can. When I was 21 I wanted to write like Kafka. But, unfortunately for me, I wrote like a script editor for The Simpsons who'd briefly joined a religious cult and then discovered Foucault. Such is life.
-Zadie Smith |
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[Dec. 11th, 2008|12:33 am] |
Quick question:
What are your favorite books with happy endings?
You get to define what "happy" means, and I know that very very few books end 100% happy (because that would probably be kind of boring), but I am in need of light-ish winter break reading and also I'm just tired of books that end in either gruesome death or inescapable misery for everyone involved. Help, please? |
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[Dec. 7th, 2008|02:38 am] |
It is distressingly normal for me to go entire days without human interaction in any form. It is also distressingly normal for me to spend totally unjustifiable portions of my day fucking around on the internet. (I can't leave the computer, because I'm TRYING to write an essay, but the ratio of work time to facebook/blogs/webcomics/random googling time is ... not good.)
But I wrote a poem that I like. And I finished reading The Age of Innocence, and my heart is a little bit broken. And it finally feels like winter, by which I mean, it is dry and a little bit chilly, like Denver in early October. And I'll be home in a week. |
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[Nov. 26th, 2008|10:51 am] |
| [ | music |
| | I Was Never Young--Of Montreal | ] |
This is so amazing:
http://nymag.com/news/features/artifact/51814/
Excerpts from profiles on an Ayn Rand based dating site, including two people who claim to never kiss someone who doesn't "deserve" them. Ohhh man.
Also, my dad made a music video!
And I told him I would make it go viral, so pass it along. |
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| Come on up for the rising |
[Nov. 5th, 2008|10:04 am] |
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| | The Man of Metropolis Steals Our Hearts--Sufjan Stevens | ] |
Colorado, my little square landlocked state, I am SO PROUD of you right now.
The rest of America, you didn't do so bad either. |
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[Nov. 4th, 2008|06:59 am] |
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OMG ELECTION TODAY TODAY TODAY |
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[Oct. 26th, 2008|03:34 pm] |
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Things not to do at three o'clock in the morning when you've been having small mental breakdowns all day: read the last 100 pages of The Devils by Dostoevsky. That shit is FUCKED UP. And you will not sleep well and you will not feel good when you wake up and seriously, just don't do it. |
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| John McCain is a raptor |
[Oct. 17th, 2008|10:45 am] |
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| | Nothing'severgonnastandinmywayagain--Wilco | ] |
"Ha ha ha! Mine is an evil laugh! Now die!" |
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[Oct. 3rd, 2008|04:33 pm] |
| [ | music |
| | Hit That--M.I.A. | ] |
Things I don't understand:
-How a mortgage is different from a loan
-What Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are
-How the whole stock market can fall at once ... I mean, I understand how individual stocks fall, but how many individual stocks have to fall for it to be a crisis for the whole market? I mean, how are these things calculated?
-Actually, I don't really understand how individual stocks fall.
-Okay, so when stocks fall, it's because bad things are going on for the company and people aren't willing to pay as much for its stocks, right? So isn't that just a sign of other bad things? But the stock market falling, in and of itself, does that have consequences? Or does it just demonstrate that things are going wrong elsewhere?
-Why Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have such silly names
-What banks do
-What the economy actually is
And it's not that I haven't tried to figure these things out, it's just that people try to explain them to me and I JUST DON'T GET IT.
In other news, the VP debate hurt me to the core of my being.
EWWW. NO. Stop winking at me. Stop using the word "maverick". And for Christ's sake, if you're going to turn the conversation to your energy policy every time you don't understand what's going on, at least SAY SOMETHING SUBSTANTIAL ABOUT IT. GOD. |
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[Sep. 27th, 2008|10:12 am] |
Wow, so I'm really whiny. Sorry guys.
I am obsessed with this song right now. |
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[Sep. 12th, 2008|09:36 pm] |
| [ | music |
| | Cactus--the Pixies | ] |
I have a job. And a headache. And I need to get REALLY good at time management, like, right now, or I think this year might kill me. |
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[Sep. 8th, 2008|10:43 am] |
This is outside a church in Ohio. FOR REAL.
Hahahahahahaha. |
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