February 2012
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This book will be my undoing.
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"so you want to be a writer?" by Charles Bukowski
libraryland:
if it doesn’t come bursting out of you in spite of everything, don’t do it. unless it comes unasked out of your heart and your mind and your mouth and your gut, don’t do it. if you have to sit for hours staring at your computer screen or hunched over your typewriter searching for words, don’t do it. if you’re doing it for money or fame, don’t do it. if you’re doing it because you...
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WatchI have watched this video for years, and it is still hilarious to me after each time.
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DeMint at CPAC: Compromise Is the Enemy →
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GOPers on Capitol Hill should not be looking to work with Democrats to develop common solutions to the nation’s woes, he proclaimed. Not at all. Not ever. And DeMint, with an I’m-so-clever smile, offered what he obviously thought was a killer analogy: the Super Bowl.
Referring to last Sunday’s game, he said, “I can guarantee you that coach Tom Coughlin did not tell his...
I just shouted "timorous little fucks" at traffic...
And people look at me like my vocabulary choices are weird or something.
Do you ever look at pictures of yourself and...
Sometimes I forget that there’s a person attached to the disembodied thoughts floating around inside my skull, and that the person is me, and that is, in fact, what he looks like.
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I think I'm going to follow every weird thing I...
The Internet is full of weird things… I just try and make them more surreal.
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Anonymous asked: Everything you write about your girlfriend is adorable. You clearly like her a lot :)
Anonymous asked: Why do so many guys think girls look sexy when they smoke?
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Dylan: Technically that plate is Chris's.
Ryan: Technically your ass is a stupid... butt.
Dylan: ...
Ryan: ...I'm a novelist.
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February
We’re having an unusually verdant February here in mid-Michigan, much to my snow-loving roommates’ chagrin. I for one couldn’t be happier about it. February is a dreary month, a gray and tepid reminder that Old Man Winter is still holding onto his last spiteful breath for at least another month (though in Michigan, another two is more likely).
Whenever February rolls around,...
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Still applying for jobs.
I have not yet found one that specifically says “Looking for a candidate to sit inside and watch The West Wing all day while makingDoctor Whojokes. Will pay for relocation to a major metro area of your choosing.”
I guess I’ll stick with the lame old Senate.
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Everyone needs to read this article right now. →
There are few things that baffle me more than my country’s unrepentant sinner act. How many more people have to suffer and die and bear the brunt of a prickly society’s inability to grasp the full meaning of its civic bible?
Look at the cheesy pride on the faces of our leaders on the 4th of July, when they recite writ large the Declaration of Independence. Isn’t it great, they...
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The only ads I say that are relevant to me on Hulu...
If lady razors come up, I’ll be sure to click “yes.”
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“More egg dreams. You staged an elaborate “hatching” ceremony, screaming “WHAT...”
– So, last weekend at our friends’ birthday party, Ryan at one point leaned forward, sniffed me, and nonchalantly announced: “You smell like eggs.” I understandably objected to that statement, since I smelled nothing like eggs—a fact that about 20 of our friends can attest to, since Ryan marched me...
Anonymous asked: I enjoy reading your blog, and am extremely jealous of your flair for writing. Anyway, have you got any advice for me? I don't know if I should take a degree in English Literature ( because I romanticize a lot) or Politics and International Relations. Decisions, decisions... Gah.
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Basically my feelings on marijuana legalization. →
Slate essentially summarizes exactly why marijuana legislation goes nowhere in Washington, and why people like me are doubtful that it will ever go anywhere, and why I frequently call it a back burner issue.
The argument is centered around potheads.Be as much of a hippie as you want, but that will get you nowhere in politics. When you talk of legalizing marijuana, the first thing people think...
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“Why does this guy come in at 7:30 every morning, cry for four hours, and then...”
– John Green describing what the baristas at Starbucks where he wrote The Fault in Our Stars must have thought of him. January 30, 2012 at Third Place Books. (via ashakensnowglobe)
Writers are weird.
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I just used "je ne sais quoi" in a three page...
I always use my first papers for any professor to assert that, yes, I am the pretentious dickhead in your class who will try and write circles around the rest of my peers, and no, I don’t know if you’ll find it endearing or tiresome, but I hope you enjoy this sumptuous discussion on Ronald Reagan that I’ve prepared for you.
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Things To Dislike About The Book I'm Reading:
It misuses apostrophes (it says50’sinstead of’50s)
It sucks Ronald Reagan’s benighted and trembling member
Just applied for three jobs in the United States...
Welp.
“And if the girl you’ve taken for a drink happens to belong to the ‘25%’ group...”
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A recent article from UniLad, a decently-sized online lad magazine with a fan base eager to support it. Fuck, that’s terrifying. (via cateematthews)
The responses on Facebook to Unilad’s apology are horrifying.
(via coffeekinns)
World, let it be known that on today, February 1, 2012, I have...
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Things Of Which I Am Inherently Skeptical
People who write short stories for a living.
People in glasses.
Men in shorts in January.
Republican governors of Democratic-leaning states (but not the reverse).
Libertarians.
Ponytails.
People who don’t capitalize words in text messages.
Anthropologists.
Anthropologie.
Anyone who still uses a Zune.
Early adopters of technology that doesn’t take off.
That moment right...