January 2011
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An observation:
At their readings, late-20- and 30something writers recite work that sounds like excerpts from a book. Their words, if printed, would appear in blocks of text, two inches tall and four-and-a-half inches wide.
The prose of younger 20somethings sounds like the process of reading or writing will likely be interrupted. It sounds like writing with a too-white screen behind it, in a font without...
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The Bed of Procrustes
is a book of aphorisms by Nassim Nicholas Taleb. Here is a selection that struck me:
“Decomposition, for the most part, starts when they leave the free, social and uncorrupted college life for the solitary confinement of professions and nuclear families” (page 41).
This quotation was like a bow and arrow pointing at my heart. On my commute to work in the morning, I see so many...
littledip asked: can you put the jj album somewhere i can downlooooad it?
ninefruits asked: I'm loving the jj mixtape at the moment. After jj no.3 was a bit disappointing, Kills is pleasing me.
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Boy collector/girl collector
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Boy collector Some boys are usually seen only as a friend. Even the most highly sexual, heterosexual women can permanently assign a man to the friend-eunuch position without second-guessing her judgment of him, or any regard for what he wants. Alongside her boyfriends or casual flings, her male friends create something of a boy collection. The qualities that seem to land men in the...
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“Who Needs a Man” by The Fresh &...
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Addendum
During the very last seconds of 2010—or the very first seconds of 2011, who can say?—a girl approached me on the dance floor and said, “My friend says you look just like Amelie!”
TODAY
Genevieve: i saw a movie last night & one of the actresses reminded me of you a bit she stole the show
very quietly
me: Aubrey Plaza?
Genevieve: ha no but she does look a bit...
