May 2012
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“Then you told me to look at the moon, so I looked through the windshield at the...”
– Leonard Cohen (from Four Letter Word: Invented Correspondence from the Edge of Modern Romance)
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“You know those software statements? ‘By opening this package you agree to...”
– Geoff Dyer (from Four Letter Word: Invented Correspondence from the Edge of Modern Romance)
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“There is no history of racism in this country that chalked ‘up only to race.’...”
– Ta-Nehisi Coates on white resentment, Obama, and Appalachia. (via theatlantic)
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“When I was eleven, my brother and sister and I went to visit our father. We...”
– Sugar (Dear Sugar #98: Monsters and Ghosts, The Rumpus)
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“What does it matter how many lovers you have if none of them gives you the...”
– Lacan (via nevver)
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Falling asleep the night before graduation.
S: I feel like the future is a bowling ball and I'm a pin.
A: But you can throw a curve ball at the bowling ball.
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I finished college! & other news.
Other news:
A: I feel so weak. I can hardly squeeze your butt.
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“The more articulate one is, the more dangerous words become.”
– May Sarton (via wwnorton)
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After Years of Faking, Finally a Happy Ending |... →
Right around the time I first told him I loved him, I started having real orgasms with Steve. It was like my climactic circuitry had been plugged in and electrified: The peak experience could be mine, though still not easily. That familiar voice would nag: “You’re taking too long! He’s getting bored!” But instead of falling back on my crescendo of rapture, I took myself out of my head by...
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“I’ve never talked to a mortgage broker who thought, ‘When I help...”
– Chana Joffe-Walt and Alix Spiegel (“Psychology Of Fraud: Why Good People Do Bad Things,” NPR)
So commonsensical and yet … really I just want to blame stupid corrupt people.
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“For a complex set of reasons, we almost intuitively label some behavior as...”
– Katherine Franke (Putting Sex to Work)
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Sometimes I wonder if I should confess to thinking...
S: all creative work is always so strenuous
S: it's like i feel like i'm on a tightrope the entire time
S: and the really thin rope underneath my feet is my potential
S: and the abyss below is all the ways i could not fulfill it D:
S: i guess that's sort of a distillation of life
J : yeah but there's a net!
J: it's not like you fall off, you're done for
J: just get back up, do it again
S: ...the net being
S: how shitty everyone else's projects are
J: LOL T_T
J: i'm glad they're there to catch you
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“In a sense, even this paper could be seen as an extension of the scene of “KONY...”
– Actual worst sentence from my final final paper of college. 16 pages. Due today at 9 a.m.
I probably wrote this line around 7:30 a.m., after locking myself in a study room at 2 p.m. yesterday to start/finish the essay.
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“I believe very strongly that people on the left are too prone to do things that...”
– In Conversation: Barney Frank (via toasterwaffles)
April 2012
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“I don’t like this expression “First World problems.” It is false and it is...”
– Teju Cole (quoted in “What’s Wrong with First World Problems,” The Atlantic) (via grrrlstudies)
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I have an urge to acknowledge this.
When I don’t know something, I gather information. I watch for signs, and in my head I plot data points all day long. I am silent until a trend materializes, and then I speak.
My contemporary cliché of choice is a functional relationship that was never defined as one, and my timeline is graduation, which is two weeks away. Neither of us has said anything. Sometimes I think that no one...
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WatchLife is kind of lame because no one will ever pay me to make audio art pieces (Radiolab, I’m looking at you/but really). Also someone listened to this and told me that I love my music beds too much, and my eloquent rebuttal is: but the music is so pretty.
“Choose Your Own”
How much control do we actually have — over our relationships, our habits, our lives? “Choose...
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“Racism is like a wily little bacterium. It doesn’t just roll over and die...”
– Lindy West (“A Complete Guide to ‘Hipster Racism’,” Jezebel)
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“Nearly a million prisoners are now making office furniture, working in call...”
– Sweatshop labor is back with a vengeance. (via motherjones)
I went to hear Angela Davis speak on campus at Duke today. Yay, prison-industrial complex.
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“My mom subscribes to Cultural Bucket Brigade Theory, which is to say, every...”
– Jeff Yang (“The Real Reason Why Asian Americans Are Outmarrying Less,” WSJ)
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"You think this is a great party?! This cake has...
Oh, Kevin. Late-night Office does the soul some good.
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This song. This album. All day every day.
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heartworm
dictionaryofobscuresorrows:
n. a relationship or friendship that you can’t get out of your head, which you thought had faded long ago but is still somehow alive and unfinished, like an abandoned campsite whose smoldering embers still have the power to start a forest fire.
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Problematize
verb
WORD NOTE
problematize The blame for this awful neologism lies with academia, where the word serves no apparent purpose except to demonstrate one’s mastery of obscurantist jargon. Some random titles from the Internet: “Problematizing Formalism: A Double-Cross of the Genre Boundaries”; “Problematizing reifications and naturalizations out of focus… “;...