March 2012
dear tumblr
I had a motherfucker of a day today. Leap day can suck it. I could use some posts that will make me smile.
February 2012
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“God and guns show up on this record maybe more than Bruce’s liberal fans...”
– Springsteen’s New Album, ‘Wrecking Ball,’ Captures Rage of Americans Still Rocked by Economic Crisis | | AlterNet
I wrote a thing about the new Springsteen. Which is really good, kids.
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“Women used to be in charge of love – it was our whole domain, the business of...”
– 3 | All I Know About Gertrude Stein | Granta 115: The F Word | Archive | Granta Magazine
more Jeanette Winterson, because she is in fact love.
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“I find myself returning again and again to the same familiar condition of...”
– 1 | All I Know About Gertrude Stein | Granta 115: The F Word | Archive | Granta Magazine
Jeanette Winterson.
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“Worry about making people in your actual life like you. Or love you. Write on...”
– Stop Writing On The Internet To Make People Love You
a longer and prettier version of “fuck you, pay me.”
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I miss
Roadtripping. Sold my car when I moved to New York and I’ve taken a few short trips since then with a rental and friends/the dog, but not the kind of drive till your back is in knots, stop and do modified push-ups against the hood of the car to get the blood flowing again and then keep going, fueled by gas station fountain Cokes and Chex Mix and whatever terrible fast food strikes your fancy...
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the world's a mess, it's in my kiss
no one is united all things are untied perhaps we’re boiling over inside they’ve been telling lies who’s been telling lies? there are no angels there are devils in many ways take it like a man the world’s a mess it’s in my kiss you can’t take it back pull it out of the fire pull it out in the bottom of the ninth pull it out in chords of red-disease drag on...
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“My talkative, unsure,
unsettled self
was everywhere;
but you
were the clear...”
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eavan boland, “first year.” boland is someone who can make me tear up not with heartache but with the sheer power of recognition. this is from her book against love poetry so it feels like i should apologize to her for calling it beautiful, but i think when a true thing is depicted with such skill...
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Si Spurrier Makes A Stand For Panel Parity Of... →
ladiesmakingcomics:
Writer Si Spurrier was supposed to be on a “How To Write A Comic Script” panel today at London Super Comics Convention, but in support of Paul Cornell’s pledge to give up his seat on panels to qualified female creators when the panels are fewer than half women, he followed suit and gave his seat to cartoonist Tammy Taylor:
Taylor’s work can be seen on her...
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“Etymologically, “austerity” is a dispiriting word, descending from an Old French...”
– Why Less Isn’t Always More - NYTimes.com
lovely little piece (thanks, Mark) on the aesthetics of “austerity”, written by an architect. The idea of “austerity” as beautiful depends on it being a choice.
More:
Today’s minimalism conjures a life of such intangible ease that...
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some nights
you skip everything and everyone and stay in with your dog, TurboTax, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, a glass of wine, and Bruce Springsteen.
oh, and your second Colette book in a few weeks, which you are almost finished with, and a notebook.
(obviously the computer played into this a bit but I am now putting it away)
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“I like to think of myself as belonging to the tribe of the powerless. I was born...”
– The Dress Doesn’t Make The Priest - The Rumpus.net
Melissa Chadburn remains amazing.
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nezua:
Your new super power is remaining aware of what is in your control, and what is not; to firmly grasp the former, to let the rest slip into the wind.
I could go for this.
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“To be honest, I felt hysterical: that Victorian word for the tantrums of...”
– The Rejectionist: Special Guest Post: Meg Clark on Jonathan Franzen
I love Meg.
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“I think something that is missing that I might add if I were writing it now is a...”
– Q & A with DEAN SPADE « queer couture
because Dean Spade is love, and because this is true, and because I was wearing my favorite shirt last night that I joked I would just buy a stack of in different colors and never worry about what to wear again. Because clothing matters and how we...
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“Some artists focus on love and simplicity.
Some artists focus on fashion and...”
– Oddly reobsessed by Amanda Palmer’s tossed off 2009 late night Ukelele rumination, Gaga/Palmer/Madonna.
Brave people. The world always needs more brave people who aren’t scared of the impossible.
I recall something we used to say when I was a kid in Stafford.
Aim for the skies/You’ll hit...
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“Jason Ackerman made his bones at a now-defunct investment house before founding...”
– In Bronx, FreshDirect and Land of Great Promises - NYTimes.com
ugh ugh ugh ugh.
will you be a lousy scab or will you be a (wo)man?
which side are you on?
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Daphne Gottlieb, "Why Things Burn"
sharingpoetry:
My fire-eating career came to an end when I could no longer tell when to spit and when to swallow. Last night in Amsterdam, 1,000 tulips burned to death. I have an alibi. When I walked by your garden, your hand grenades were in bloom. You caught me playing loves me, loves me not, metal pins between my teeth. I forget the difference between seduction and arson, ...
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“Now is the time to challenge that feudal relationship. We need to call into...”
– America’s last hope: A strong labor movement - Salon.com
What he said.
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“I stressed the love situation and I still think I was right. Because it’s...”
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Julia Kristeva | ‘Julia Kristeva in Conversation with Rosalind Coward’ in The Portable Kristeva (via nezua)
reblogging myself, because relevant, and because the other day I said to a friend that I don’t have much cause to talk about Kristeva but maybe I should find more reasons because come...
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Watchrelevant:
I’ve played dumb when I knew better
Tried too hard just to be clever
I know honest thieves I call family
I’ve seen America with no clothes on but
I don’t wanna be a cheerleader no more
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