January 2010
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My favorite poem when I was seventeen
Love Poem I want to write you a love poem as headlong as our creek after thaw when we stand on its dangerous banks and watch it carry with it every twig every dry leaf and branch in its path every scruple when we see it so swollen with runoff that even as we watch we must grab each other and step back we must grab each other or get our shoes soaked we must grab each other
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“Just like prohibition before it, the drug war has created powerful criminal...”
– Nicholas Ivan Ladendorf, House of Representatives Candidate 2010, Missouri 7th District
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This Progressive Party candidate is intelligent, heartfelt, and generally awesome. C’mon Missouri. You got this.
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A Prairie Home Companion Kind of Memory
I remember when I was a little girl, occasionally 9 or 10pm would slither up too quickly and I’d suddenly remember, “Oh, no. I’ve done it now. I forgot about that thing and I need a poster board or some markers or some other little thing for tomorrow and I need it immediately. I have to ask Daddy to take me to the store.”
He would say yes and, even if we were in the middle...
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“Feminists are doing dreadful things to the English language.”
– David Ogilvy, Ogilvy on Advertising
Whadda guy.
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Fun Fact:
At 3.30am, every single person on the Brooklyn-bound L train is haaaaammered.
In tonight’s instance, this fact resulted in an acoustic guitar-fueled break dance party with four sleeping attendees and a subsequent John Denver sing(scream)along.
I love you, ‘Burg.
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“Ah, the double-entendre shoes, the key to Freud’s question ‘What do...”
– Toni Bentley (The Surrender) provides further evidence that every single thing about a woman is complex and contradictory and symbolic and lovely. Pay attention. We mean what we don’t say.
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I want to meet this ladaaay! →
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This is the best poem in recent memory. →
bethlehems:
(via geocities)
This is purdy. →
Ah...life and times of a receptshy
True story. My life is awesome.
christinehoberg:
Many hilarious things happen while I reception with my deskmate 47.5 hours a week. When new hilarious things happen, it’s sometimes fun to share them. Here goes:
Claire-On the phone, trying to spell out something to the caller, “J like Jack. No!… Sir!… J…like ???…”
She looks to me, and I say earnestly, “J like Johnson!”
And...
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Co-winky-dink?
On my desk rests a “Believing in Ourselves Desk Calendar.” Today, this calendar reads: “Every birthday, you decide whether to mark it the end of your greatest days or the beginning of your finest hour.” This Oprah Winfrey quote is topical because today is my birthday. This coincidence reminds me of a phase I went through last year in which I stopped believing in...
TIMMMMAAAAYYYYYYY →
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Daily Reflections
fact.
christinehoberg:
“There wouldn’t be half as much fun in the world if it weren’t for children and men, and there ain’t a mite of difference between them under the skins.”
-Ellen Glasgow, from Claire’s desktop calendar, ‘Daily Reflections for Women’
A better band name that I thought of while looking...
Clairabbit & the Sweater Bunnies
An awesome name for a band that I just thought of...
Clairabbit and the dustbunnies
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“I woke up and there was a single copper sequin next to me.”
– Jing, on what remains of our New Years Eve together