January 2012
1 January 2012
I wanted to hate 2011. I really, really did. I wanted to say good riddance and snub my nose at the world come midnight. And as of dinner time tonight, I was prepped and ready to be a negative asshole about everything. I was just glad to be done with it all.
But the more I pondered, the more I realized that the things I hated about this past year were actually more about my own fuck-ups than they...
December 2011
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So, a pretty girl is travelling across the state...
I guess things could be worse, right?
ALL OF THE NAPS
Swoon
“For the record, this is how you get ahead in the world. There’s always another system. It’s always broken, and if you want to be successful, you have to learn to manipulate it. It’s not about breaking the rules. It’s about learning how they bend. Most importantly, though, it’s about simply showing up.”
Coketalk just distilled 30 years of hard knocks into a single paragraph.
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Dammit
Don’t you hate it when you have a rough idea for telling a story in a neat way, only to find out that somebody famous - like Neil fucking Gaiman - has already beaten you to the punch?
And don’t you also hate it when you realize that Mr. Gaiman threw that punch in a far more interesting manner than you could ever hope to?
(Of course he did)
Anyway, BRB. Scratching another entry off...
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Yes.
Because open is better than closed. Because brave is better than afraid. Because acclimated and accepting is better than squeamish and freaked out. And most of all, because our kids and our wives and our bodies are nothing to be ashamed of. Ever.
I'm done being all worked up.
clapifyoulikeme:
nicky36:
And just so this is totally clear: I love Rachel. I am not angry at her or anyone else who feels the same way, but, just like if someone I loved said something racist or homophobic, this is a topic I feel like I can’t be silent on. Feeding your child in public is a basic human right.
Yeah.
Seconded. A child’s need for nourishment trumps all else. Speaking as...
PRO NOG
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Sorry, Tumblr. There's a reason I don't follow...
Life is a short, cruel and dark ride. You will die sooner than you like. The things you spend years acquiring will soon bore you. The universe doesn’t care all that much about whether or not you have the things you need to be comfortable or happy. You can pray to whatever god you like, but your words will go unheard because the gods are only there to salve our guilt when we are at our cruelest,...
Those of Us Who Think We Know - Stephen Dunn
Those of us who think we know the same secrets are silent together most of the time, for us there is eloquence in desire, and for a while when in love and exhausted it’s enough to nod like shy horses and come together in a quiet ceremony of tongues.
It’s in disappointment we look for words to convince us the spaces between the stars are nothing to worry about, it’s when those secrets burst in...
(I seem to have a thing for women who stare...
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It's Tuesday
I’m feeling quite stuck and broken at the moment, and I don’t like it. At all.
I was forced to face a hard truth yesterday. I didn’t like that very much, either.
Hope is a double-edged sword.
There are snow birds right outside my window. It is 58°F. I think somebody is lying to me.
I don’t have any true thing to write in this line.
25 People Who Thought Lil Kim Died Last Night →
For realz
Don’t Call Me, I Won’t Call You
vmarinelli:
“I don’t think it’s just me. Sure, teenagers gave up the phone call eons ago. But I’m a long way away from my teenage years, back when the key rite of passage was getting a phone in your bedroom or (cue Molly Ringwald gasp) a line of your own.”
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Pamela Paul: Don’t Call Me, I Won’t Call You (NYTimes.com)
It’s definitely not just her.
I’m the king of phone anxiety....
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And now we've hit the "Manic" phase of our...
WHEEEEEE!
