Her Comely Twin Kidneys

One sentence, four errors...

Sat, 18 May 2013 13:21:57 -0500

One sentence, four errors...:

…proving that maybe Beyonce should have spent a little time in college.

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Tue, 23 Apr 2013 21:09:28 -0500

scarlettjen: 29 ways to stay creative. (Bet they had a creative...

Wed, 03 Apr 2013 20:05:32 -0500

scarlettjen:

29 ways to stay creative. (Bet they had a creative block trying to come up with number 30.)

englishgradstudentshaming: Currently taking bets on whether...

Sat, 30 Mar 2013 16:30:53 -0500

englishgradstudentshaming:

Currently taking bets on whether this will be more or less objectionable to people than preferring a kindle over paper books.

meredithfay: lifeaquatic: petitchou: So basically, former...

Sat, 23 Feb 2013 13:11:36 -0600

meredithfay:

lifeaquatic:

petitchou:

So basically, former Doobie Bro Michael McDonald trolls twitter for people who use words in his lyrics and tweetbombs them. I mean, imagine the real life version of this: you’re just eating dinner with a friend, and you’re like, “dang, I was such a fool to go on a second date with that loser.” And all of a sudden MMcD strolls by, singing in his soulful, just-been-punched-in-the-throat way: “What a fool believes...” Regardless, this would have been a great SNL sketch in like, 1985, no?

My main goal of 2013 is to have MMcD surprise tweetbomb me. In the meantime, I have this this sensuous mouse pad to tide me over.

Smooth

So happy to live in a time when old people are figuring out how to use Twitter.

smooth

amazing

lk-shaw: lorrie moore in the paris review, 2001

Fri, 22 Feb 2013 18:34:14 -0600

lk-shaw:

lorrie moore in the paris review, 2001

"Rocks come at us from all places — from a boy at a birthday party, from those close to us and from..."

Wed, 30 Jan 2013 20:52:43 -0600

“Rocks come at us from all places — from a boy at a birthday party, from those close to us and from strangers, from our city, our country, the world and sometimes from a place within ourselves. They are the difficulties that hurtle through the air. The writer’s job is to pick them up, examine them and use them. This use is a small gesture of control — and generosity. While we can’t throw them back, we can consider their weight, and feel on them the singular imprint of our hands.”

- Karen E. Bender, “The Accidental Writer.”

(via)

"This, friends, is the way book events are supposed to be: inspiring, creative, collaborative, and..."

Wed, 30 Jan 2013 20:47:38 -0600

“This, friends, is the way book events are supposed to be: inspiring, creative, collaborative, and celebratory. They’re supposed to be about community and what it means to share art and a love of the arts. They’re supposed to be fun. More like this, please.”

- The Way Book Events Should Be (via bookriot)

LORRIE MOORE'S MOVING TO NASHVILLE! LORRIE MOORE'S MOVING TO NASHVILLE!

Sat, 26 Jan 2013 14:18:22 -0600

…which is proof of what I’ve been saying for the past couple of years: Nashville’s writing scene is gaining some serious street cred.

I mean, holy mo-fo: LORRIE MOORE IS MOVING TO NASHVILLE!

It’s totally true, you guys: she’ll be teaching in Vanderbilt’s MFA program beginning fall 2013. Which means we’ll see each other in line for coffee at Bongo Java, exchange polite smiles as we pass on the sidewalk in front of Ben & Jerry’s, and drunkenly nod to each other at the Yazoo brewery some lonely, balmy autumn eve. She could move to our block, borrow eggs for a pie, pet my fat pug, compliment us on our herb garden.

And the whole time, I would stand there, slack-jawed and mute. Probably not unlike when a tween spots Taylor Swift buying bubble gum and slap bracelets in an airport gift shop. Because OMG LORRIE MOORE.

It could happen. It could really, seriously happen.

braidedhate: bought this today. read the back on the train ride...

Thu, 24 Jan 2013 20:18:03 -0600

braidedhate:

bought this today. read the back on the train ride home and almost started crying. also i got on the wrong train and ended up at lake merritt.

powells: ecantwell: nprfreshair: This one goes out to all you...

Thu, 24 Jan 2013 19:15:47 -0600

powells:

ecantwell:

nprfreshair:

This one goes out to all you anagram nerds. We know you’re out there.

via Electric Literature and Today and Tomorrow

Can’t resist reblogging Christian Bök.

This is perfect.

"I saw the peculiar way America creeps up on you if you don’t have anything,” he told me. “It’s never..."

Wed, 23 Jan 2013 20:43:20 -0600

““I saw the peculiar way America creeps up on you if you don’t have anything,” he told me. “It’s never rude. It’s just, Yes, you do have to work 14 hours. And yes, you do have to ride the bus home. You’re now the father of two and you will work in that cubicle or you will be dishonored. Suddenly the universe was laden with moral import, and I could intensely feel the limits of my own power. We didn’t have the money, and I could see that in order for me to get this much money, I would have to work for this many more years. It was all laid out in front of me, and suddenly absurdism wasn’t an intellectual abstraction, it was actually realism. You could see the way that wealth was begetting wealth, wealth was begetting comfort — and that the cumulative effect of an absence of wealth was the erosion of grace.””

- George Saunders (via 100yearsoflolitude)

theparisreview: Author Etgar Keret and journalist and editor...

Wed, 23 Jan 2013 19:47:41 -0600

theparisreview:

Author Etgar Keret and journalist and editor Dov Alfon have started a new intiative called storyvid, an attempt to create the literary equivalent of a music video. We bring you storyvid’s first production, a four-minute pilot based on Keret’s story “What Do We Have In Our Pockets?” Goran Dukić of Wristcutters: A Love Story (also based on a Keret story) directs. The short was selected to screen in the 2013 Sundance Film Festival, which runs through the end of this week.

retrogasm: Zappa

Wed, 23 Jan 2013 19:38:28 -0600

retrogasm:

Zappa

"Break a vase, and the love that reassembles the fragments is stronger than that love which took its..."

Tue, 22 Jan 2013 23:05:59 -0600

““Break a vase, and the love that reassembles the fragments is stronger than that love which took its symmetry for granted when it was whole.””

- ― Derek Walcott

Happy Birthday Derek Walcott!
(via thetinhouse)

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Tue, 22 Jan 2013 22:57:38 -0600

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Mon, 14 Jan 2013 22:12:04 -0600

YES YES YES YES YES

….yet another reason I belong in Portland.

Mon, 14 Jan 2013 21:05:13 -0600

….yet another reason I belong in Portland.

Books that have a lower Goodreads rating than "Life Code: The New Rules for Winning in the Real World" by Dr. Phil McGraw

Mon, 14 Jan 2013 20:51:53 -0600

embfitz:

Herman Melville, Moby Dick.

Alice Munro, Lives of Girls and Women.

Jeffrey Eugenides, The Marriage Plot.

Toni Morrison, Beloved.

David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest.

Kate Chopin, The Awakening.

Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird.

Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita.

Books that have a higher rating:

James Joyce, Dubliners.

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Sun, 13 Jan 2013 20:41:15 -0600

pleatedjeans:

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