January 2012
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twentysixarias asked: How did you first get published and what was your experience like? I mean, actually finding out that something of yours was officially published.
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abcdemilyk asked: i like your writing and you're funny. sincerely, a random girl on the internet.
December 2011
10 posts
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My personal experience of 2011
(my personal experience of 2010 is here: part 1, part 2)
2011 in…
MUSIC
doing the mashed potato to “Nodding Off” by Wavves/Best Coast
I don’t wanna be like the other girls, guess the Vivian Girls don’t wanna be like me either
TV Girl made this great song that makes me think of riding bikes in the summer; too bad my face broke ;_;.
Lil B is just as gay or...
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jakec asked: So re: suspending disbelief about the unlikelihood of the Santa in your town being the one true Santa, my parents used to tell me that the Santas you sit on the lap of are actually Santa's messengers/helpers, while the real Santa only emerges from the North Pole on the 25th. It seemed plausible.
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I Told Santa I Was Jewish →
Now’s the perfect time to revisit the undersung webzine I compiled last year.
autocorrect oracle
grayandgreen:
two entries with more in the future, maybe
EGOT becomes EGOTISM
amor fati becomes amor fatigue
#dropdead becomes deported
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Some things my upstairs neighbor might say if I...
- “Sorry, it’s just that I have this pogo stick and I like to jump on it while each of my 100 dogs runs around me.”
- “Sorry, it’s just that I’m a dinosaur and I love to go bowling.”
- “Sorry, it’s just that I like to lay out thousands of rolling pins side by side and try to run across them.”
- “Sorry, it’s just that I...
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“A man emerged from the elevator. I am the narrator, he said, but thats beside the point. My sister is having a nervous breakdown upstairs and I think its because shes spending too much time with her loser boyfriend at Yale.
The kid eyed the man up and down. You aint nothin, he said. The judge smiled. Glanton spat. We can do that, he said, and the man asked him what it was that he could...
November 2011
8 posts
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growing up is crazy part 1/2
Being at my mom’s in the suburbs makes me think of going to school here, more specifically high school, since that was most recent. When I look back, I’m embarrassed at how uptight and socially awkward I was. I know that a lot of creative adults look back and say, “Oh, I was such a nerd!” almost like a badge of pride. It’s just that I have a feeling I was a little...
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growing up is crazy part 2/2
In late September my lease was about to expire, and I had a new place lined up with a roommate I found on Craigslist. At the last minute, I decided I wanted to live alone, and stayed with my parents for about two months as I searched. It sucked because my parents don’t even care if they’re near cool bars or my work, and I had to take lots of cabs and spent like 2+ hours commuting each...
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autocorrect oracle
two entries with more in the future, maybe
EGOT becomes EGOTISM
amor fati becomes amor fatigue
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My friend Tyler Trykowski wrote a thingy for the... →
Everyone, please read this! It’s a thought-provoking article on Chicago’s homeless population and it was written by my boy genius friend Tyler Trykowski. I could not be prouder!
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October 2011
9 posts
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proposed winter dessert that replicates the pleasure of eating a sundae: baked apple, served with a grapefruit spoon, with marscapone on top
“When Willis writes about a “unified erotic impulse”—a convergence of lust,...”
– Emily Books: I Like Fucking/I Hate Danger by Arianna Stern
(via thingsiatethatilove)
I Like Candy/I Hate Weight Gain
I Like Uptown/I Hate Gunfire
I Like Money/I Hate Overtime
I Like iPhones/I Hate AT&T
My essay on the Emily Books blog! It’s about sex.
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Progress Report October 4: How Have I Spent the...
- transcribing an interview
- baking a coffee cake from Trader Joe’s
- temporarily living with my dad in Uptown
- missing Jeff Mangum’s performance at Occupy Wall Street
- working on an essay about a book I read
- exercising almost every day
- listening to Vivian Girls, Naughty by Nature’s self-titled album, Beyone’s 4, Era Extraña by Neon Indian, Das Racist’s...
ellarouge asked: why do you have a whole foods bag if you don't have groceries?
krohdaddi asked: did you ever wonder why they wrap the bread in tinfoil? tinfoil isn't an insulator so it doesn't keep it warm; it's a conductor so it dissipates the heat more rapidly. it's like a square foot of metal. is it just habit like fish and chips in an old newspaper? it seems weird to me like being served a cup of coffee out of a huge veterinary syringe or milkshakes dispensed...
September 2011
8 posts
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thehourhand asked: What are your 3 favorites quotes?
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August 2011
11 posts
gotreins asked: I pretty sure you get this a lot, but what was the status? I'm dying to know!
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RIP moth (a few months ago – August 2011)
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LIGHTS UP on the stairwell in my building. My neighbor, his lady friend, and me are passing each other on the stairs.
Me: I have a proposal for you
Neighbor: What’s that?
Me: How would you...
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“When I woke up later that night, I didn’t want to open my eyes. For an instant, I couldn’t tell if I was dreaming or breathing in the dark. I was afraid if I lifted my lids, I’d look out to the old, familiar view of my apartment, with its toppling bookcases and artless walls. And then, when I realized I recognized the steady heartbeat behind me, the tender flesh that...
logicisstupid asked: Not really a question, but I think you're awesome.
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Wisdom from my grandmother
On cooking: “Fast is better than good.”
On life: “Nothing’s good. Nothing’s bad. Everything’s the same.”
On gossip: “How can you live without knowing what’s going on in other people’s lives?”
On her own death: “I’m 92 years old. I meant it when I said I’m drying out. Come see me while you can.*”
* note...
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legospaceship asked: Sorry you had to deal with some BS. Also sorry about the bike crash. That picture is the perfect application of the word "gnarly." Keep writing!
Contact info, part two
You can email me or ask me questions now cause the unwanted-attention stuff has subsided. To note the obvious: It’s bad if I’m consistently ignoring your repeated attempts to contact me.
I reserve the right to make all that stuff private again if I am harassed again, but I’m hoping that won’t happen.