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“…and so young women here’s the dilemma itself the solution: I have always been at the same time woman enough to be moved to tears and man enough to drive my car in any direction.” - Women of the Beat Generation

Dec 31st

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Books that I remember reading during 2010 (for...

A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte A Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft Don Juan by Lord Byron The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde Eight Modern Essayists a collection by William Smart Mortal Lessons: Notes on the Art of Surgery by Richard...

Dec 31st

Dec 30th

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Ways that I am my mother:

Dinner conversation turns to how Scarlett O’Hara would definitely be a cat, not a dog, if she were an animal.

Dec 28th

“1. Use the time of a total stranger in such a way that he or she will not feel...”

– Kurt Vonnegut’s advice to writers (via bearbearpdx)

Dec 28th

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A Rattlesnake Round-Up is a rodeo-like event common to rural areas of the United States, including Texas, Georgia and the Midwest, where, rather than bovines, rattlesnakes are the primary animal attraction. The largest of the several Rattlesnake Round-Up events is in Sweetwater, Texas. Held every year since 1958, the event currently attracts approximately 35,000 visitors per year and results in...

Dec 28th

“I wanted so much to have a life.” Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

Dec 28th

ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

Dec 27th

the format keeps getting fucked up.

Please don’t miss the red lights this time because I, too, have trouble coming to a scraping halt once the wheels have started turning and even if I tried, wouldn’t you grab the steering wheel directing the machine’s broken parts wherever you please? I’ve just recently learned that I’m not strong or small enough to wriggle out of every corner. I can’t begin to...

Dec 27th

Some people trade their drug stories like war stories.

Dec 27th

Dec 26th

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Little Beast

by Richard Siken 1 An all-night barbeque. A dance on the courthouse lawn. The radio aches a little tune that tells the story of what the night is thinking. It’s thinking of love. It’s thinking of stabbing us to death and leaving our bodies in a dumpster. That’s a nice touch, stains in the...

Dec 25th

This is why I love Justin:

“‘Actually, you said Love, for you, / is larger than the usual romantic love. / It’s like a religion. It’s / terrifying. No one / will ever want to sleep with you.’ Siken so good you MUST get that book and cum for days”

Dec 25th

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Dec 25th

bb, you got my number.

Dec 25th

Dec 24th

When I was in first grade, my teacher, who had lived in Europe for some years, taught us how to say merry Christmas in German. Frohe Weihnachten. I thought it was so cool, and I was so proud to know it, that I just said it over and over in my head so that I would never forget it. I made a little song about it. I taught my family and all of my friends. Now I actually have German friends, and...

Dec 24th

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I ended up talking so much shit last night with a couple girls from high school and finding out how crazy everyone is these days. I just sent this message to the two of them: “I figured it out after I got home, it was __________________, not ___________, that dated the 40 year old with one arm!”

Dec 23rd

They were digging a new foundation in Manhattan And they discovered a slave cemetery there May their souls rest easy now that lynching is frowned upon And we’ve moved on to the electric chair And I wonder who’s gonna be president Tweedle Dumb or Tweedle Dumber? And who’s gonna have the big Blockbuster box office This summer How ‘bout we put up a wall Between the houses and...

Dec 23rd

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Dec 23rd

I have way too many clothes.

How did I acquire so many? And when did I ever own/fit into a denim Hollister skirt this tiny?

Dec 22nd

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My mom talking about reading Trinity at work:

“So I’m crying at lunch in the break room because there was a fire in the shirt factory today!”

Dec 22nd

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No one watching me struggle to get from Newcastle to London and from London to the US with 150 pounds of luggage would have thought that probably twenty percent of the weight was books. I looked like such an idiot and British dudes were making fun of me and my muscles are sore.

Dec 22nd

I want to blog so much Jack Kerouac today.

“ What is the feeling when you’re driving away from people, and they recede on the plain till you see their specks dispersing? - it’s the too huge world vaulting us, and it’s good-bye. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies.”

Dec 20th

Dec 19th

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Dec 19th

my mom was really funny when danielle and i were...

Danielle: and then my kids will end up going to your house bc there unbiological aunt will love them regardless if they smoke pot at 14 yrs old Me: and i will always tell them to wear a rubber.don’t worry.i’ll keep them safe.

Dec 19th

BRB reminding myself how to be a human.

Dec 19th

Dec 18th

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The worst part of this is that I’m running out of deodorant and I’m just using this little crumb that isn’t even connected to the plastic anymore and rubbing it on my armpits because I don’t want to go buy another one because I won’t have room in my suitcase to bring it home. And that tiny piece just broke in half today.

Dec 18th

FUCKING ENGLAND. IT’S NOT EVEN SNOWING, WHY DID YOU CANCEL MY FLIGHT?

Dec 18th