May 2011
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May 31st
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May 31st
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May 31st
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May 30th
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If your backpack slides off of your shoulder, your macbook will hit the cement and, despite the layers of backpack and laptop case, the aluminum shell will bust and dent and the lid will no longer close properly. AppleCare will not cover backpack-related incidents; you will be forced to adjust to a life of ghetto, broke-down macbook owning. Your macbook was your only nice thing; now it will look...
May 29th
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May 29th
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May 28th
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May 28th
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Wild Words
oldstandby: Go read Wild Words, a very cool series of illustrated short fiction by Gabriel Thibodeau. Good writing made gooder by cool imagery. Super well done! Thanks for posting. Really like your piece in Dogzplot!
May 27th
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May 27th
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You must follow Kayla. →
Kayla Lady, resident roommate and best friend, has stepped up her tumblr game with a new layout and some seriously solid posts. If anything, you should follow her for her honesty, humor, and good taste in film. It’ll be worth the clicks, I promise.
May 26th
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PANK Blog / A Few Thoughts on the Rejection of... →
May 26th
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May 26th
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May 26th
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Posts I NEVER Read on Tumblr.
Just so you know, I won’t read your witty text conversation if its in iPhone screenshot form. It’s just a fact of life. It can’t be controlled. I don’t mind screenshots in other forms. In fact, I actually enjoy laptop screenshots because it makes me feel like I’m pseudo-snooping around in your harddrive. Neither do I mind reading your text conversations; if you...
May 25th
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May 25th
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May 25th
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May 25th
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May 25th
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May 24th
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May 24th
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“We tell ourselves stories in order to live… We look for the sermon in the...”
– JOAN DIDION, “The White Album” (via judydark)
May 24th
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May 23rd
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After Life →
tetw: by Joan Didion Life changes fast. Life changes in the instant. You sit down to dinner and life as you know it ends.
May 22nd
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May 21st
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May 21st
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May 21st
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May 21st
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“Young writers aren’t applying to MFA programs and sending their work to tiny...”
– Michael Bourne’s essay in The Millions
May 20th
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May 19th
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“I usually get into bed with a novel and our Post-it-studded Times. I try to read...”
– Pulitzer Prize winner Jennifer Egan dishes on her media diet. Read the rest at The Atlantic Wire (via theatlantic)
May 18th
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May 17th
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“[Fiction is] a process of producing grand, beautiful, well-ordered lies that...”
– Julian Barnes (via theparisreview)
May 17th
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May 17th
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May 17th
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“If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire ever can warm me, I...”
– Emily Dickinson, in a letter to Thomas Higginson.
May 16th
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May 16th
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May 15th
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May 14th
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“Mysticism keeps men sane. As long as you have mystery you have health; when you...”
– G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy
May 14th
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May 14th
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May 13th
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May 11th
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“Her outrage was so large it carried with it a tinge of presentation, the way a...”
– Aimee Bender, The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake. Reading tomorrow in Oakland=Gabe asking multiple questions during discussion.
May 10th
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“If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that...”
– Ernest Hemingway (via deadwriters)
May 10th
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May 10th
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May 10th
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May 10th
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May 10th
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“It’s not just the books under fire now that worry me. It is the books that will...”
– Judy Blume (via librarianista)
May 9th
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