February 2012
18 posts
There are rare days - moments, really - when I just fucking love my life and everything about it. Tonight is one of those moments. Did some good writing, got into grad school, marrying the best person I know, going to a conference with a bunch of cool writers next week, and I live next door to a Starbucks.
Awesome.
"Hey Dustin! Getcha ass ova here! We buildin' bird...
Ghetto Hikes is the greatest blog ever.
“One of the things we want to make sure is, ‘Hey guys, go about your business...”
– This is the Boston University hockey coach’s response to the second arrest in as many months of a team member for sexual assault.
There are so many things wrong with this response; the quote above is just the highlight (let’s all feel real sorry for those poor boys on the hockey...
I forgot to post it, but last week Greg and I...
“Leonard: “[The narrator of this story is] an overeducated, completely...”
– - That first quote from this article is from a character in a play about students in a writing workshop. I only include it because Leonard is played by Alan Rickman, and I love to imagine him saying this.
The second quote is from a real person, Anis Shivani, who makes a living out of shitting on...
January 2012
18 posts
gregbrown:
Books & Beer: Episode 1 The World...
gregbrown:
Books & Beer: Episode 0 _Fiction...
The Sitcom Season in Rape Jokes →
steviemcfly:
How are these things getting worse instead of better?
I’ll just be over here banging my head against the wall.
You Know You've Applied to Too Many MFA...
When any unfamiliar area code on your phone gives you a heart attack.
When no matter what letter you type in your browser, the first six sites that pop up are “How to Apply” pages for various schools.
You have dreams that you were accepted or rejected, even to programs that you didn’t apply to
Your partner suggests you start watching The Big Lebowski every day to help you...
Car Commercial On the TV...
Commercial Lady: Get married? But there were so many things I wanted to do first. Hike the Appalachian Trail...
Me: Right. Because you can't do things when you're married.
Greg: Actually, you can hike the Appalachian Trail when you're married. It just involves flying to Argentina to see your mistress.
Yelping with Cormac: Chipotle Mexican Grill →
yelpingwithcormac:
SOMA - San Francisco, CA
Cormac M. | Author | Lost in the chaparral, NM
Three stars.
See that false burrito. See it swaddled in tinfoil on the desk in the bowels of that great tower, a bundle of meat and sauce in a place long ago ceded to silicone and copper. The stooped man eating that peasant…
December 2011
13 posts
This is one of those weird 21st century...
So you have this facebook friend, someone you went to high school with but haven’t actually spoken to in a decade or so, the type of person who generally just posts 6,000 times a day with pictures of her kids and talking about how much she loves/misses/wants to be with her husband. Probably the kind of person you should just unfriend except you’re too much of a nosy bitch to unfriend...
a bright wall in a dark room.: National Lampoon's... →
brightwalldarkroom:
GETTING THE MOST IMPORTANT THINGS RIGHT
by Erica U.
All month I’ve been contemplating which holiday movie I wanted to write about and I’m embarrassed to tell you how much time I spent googling “obscure Christmas film.”
It wasn’t that I wanted to put on airs of sophistication or…
This could have been written about my father. Every year we watched this movie...
Yelping with Cormac: Chili's Grill & Bar →
yelpingwithcormac:
Natomas - Sacramento, CA
Cormac M. | Author | Lost in the chaparral, NM
Four stars.
I am going to remove a star, he said.
Please don’t mister.
Don’t move. It’s better if you don’t move.
Please.
It’s important you know why. Do you understand why this is happening?
Oh God.
It is because I…
Yelping with Cormac is the greatest thing.
Yelping with Cormac: Urban Outfitters →
yelpingwithcormac:
Union Square - San Francisco, CA
Cormac M. | Author | Lost in the chaparral, NM
Three stars.
And they come there in great numbers shuffling into that mausoleum that was built for them like some monument to the slow death of their world and among those tokens and talismans of that faded empire…
November 2011
20 posts
STFU, Sexists.: Siri Failures, Illustrated →
keepyourboehneroutofmyuterus:
amaditalks:
The recent illustrations of Siri, the iPhone 4S voice-recognition based assistant, failing to provide information to users about abortion, birth control, help after rape and help with domestic violence has gotten a lot of notice. Yesterday’s…
Very interesting and raises a lot of questions.