January 2012
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I have just finished Anna Karenina, which I began reading last spring. CHEERS.
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Sometimes, I think the only art left for us is slowly peeling the label off a...
– Lynda Barry (via johnisdead)
December 2011
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A Poetry Book Field Guide
Some cautionary tales in the construction of poetry manucripts brought to you by yours truly:
The SEVENTEEN SECTION COLLECTION: This is a manuscript that hasn’t quite found out what it wants to bring home. Instead of working out three sections using a solid, seamless, flow, this manuscript tries to somehow include every poem the author has written in order to reach the page length...
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Another 4.0 semester. EFF YES GRAD SCHOOL. Three more semesters to go…
Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be...
– bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions (via osram-akoma)
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It isn’t cruelty that kills. It’s neglect.
– Patience Owen
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HOME
So much stuff to do and I only have a week left!
PLUS: it isn’t going to snow while I’m here. Kind of a bummer, but at least walking around outside is tolerable.
Definitely not ready to go back to Fresno anytime soon…
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My musical loves of late have all begun with E
Efterklang Electrelane Ellie Goulding Erik Satie Emiliana Torrini
There's a kitty on my lap...
which means I probably won’t get up for a while because cats are at their peak of adorable when sleeping on your lap. Tonight is the last class meeting of the semester. After this, I have to turn in my portfolio to Connie and DONE. The busiest, craziest, most riDONKulous semester of my life is over.
Onto the writing next semester… I’ve made it a strict goal to snazz up the back...
And even though you’ve cleaned me off your plate, I still listen to the songs we listened to together.
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Since I was young, I’ve been drawn to the gray.
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Bisexual Barbie
One of ten Barbies is left-handed, another ten percent are lesbian. But it’s hard to keep track of the bisexual ones— their orientation often secret, or if overt, still undetectable. Barbies dress in front of one another and statisticians think nothing of it. Two Barbies often share a sleeping bag or double bed because there are twice as many Barbies as Kens. Two Barbies live in one...
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...a best/worst analogy
13. McBride fell 12 stories, hitting the pavement like a Hefty bag filled with vegetable soup.
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