December 2009
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At some point last night I realized that by the end of the next decade, I could very well have given birth.
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Incidentally, I loved a lot of films in the 2000s,...
Adaptation, Almost Famous, Amélie, Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy, Brokeback Mountain, Catch Me If You Can, Dreamgirls, Elf, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Fantastic Mr. Fox, Finding Nemo, I’m Not There, The Informant!, Junebug, Juno, Kill Bill Vol. 2, Milk, The Royal Tenenbaums, Shaun of the Dead, Spider-Man 2, The Station Agent, Up, WALL-E, Wet Hot American Summer, Wonder...
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“‘You appear to me so superior, so elevated above all other men,’ she...”
– “Up, Aloft in the Air,” Donald Barthelme
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“How was it possible to be afraid and in love, Therese thought. The two things...”
– The Price of Salt, Patricia Highsmith
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“The left won’t let you eat trans fats!”
– Claim I was 100% sure I heard my uncle making at our Christmas gathering this evening. My father, who was actually paying attention, says that my uncle was actually making an analogy of some kind when he uttered these words. But I’m going to conveniently ignore that fact for the sake of...
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Merry Christmas; here are the lyrics to a carol my...
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Straight A's
They are easy to obtain when one of your classes consists mainly of drawing your reading or listening experiences, as in with markers.
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"Awards aren't what they used to be," said my...
and then he cited Sandra Bullock’s Golden Globe nomination for The Proposal and Barack Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize as two examples.
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“Oh Linus! I think I know just the park of which you speak! Yes, there is a fine...”
– It’s possible that early on in our relationship, Kevin and I conducted flirtatious conversations in code in the comments of articles about pigeons on the New York Times website.
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In our last workshop on Monday the professor asked, “Why do you write?” and people started saying things like “Therapy!” and “Because I didn’t want to follow the career path I’d started as an undergrad!” and “I use it to communicate with the world and three-dimensionalize things” (???) and “Because not writing began to feel like a...
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I had one of those nights where you can’t sleep and it’s like you’ve suddenly entered a dimension of hell. I lay down at 11 p.m. and was still awake at 3:45 a.m., so that should give you an idea of how bad it was. There was a lot of helpless silent weeping, tossing and turning, inhaling panicky breaths and exhaling desperate sighs. And Kevin slept soundly through the whole...
I Just Dropped My Bed on My Fingers, Yelled "FUCK...
“Beck invariably uses his real or feigned bromance with the Founding Fathers to...”
– I haven’t forgotten about Glenn Beck. It’s more that I’m pacing myself. Since The Christmas Sweater is probably written at a 5th-grade reading level, I think it’s important to take it slow. Make sure I capture every Beckian nuance. I am posting this quote because of the... 