May 2010
5 posts
“The analysis showed those who drank moderately were more likely to have lower...”
– GREAT NEWS!
“Argh! It is always irritating when things happen in the world, because you will...”
– [Gawker.]
April 2010
1 post
March 2010
1 post
Is it just me, or is there something about ‘growing up’ that makes socializing increasingly structured and/or formal? I feel like certain people, these days in adult land, require a destination or occasion or objective or plan as a pretext to social interaction. It’d be nice if everyone stopped using their cellphones and computers for a day, so then you’d just have to show...
February 2010
8 posts
As Planned
thesoundingbored:
crashinglybeautiful:
After the first glass of vodka you can accept just about anything of life even your own mysteriousness you think it is nice that a box of matches is purple and brown and is called La Petite and comes from Sweden for they are words that you know and that is all you know words not their feelings or what they mean and you write because you know them not...
“Poetry is a diary kept by a sea creature who lives on land and wishes he could...”
– Wisława Szymborska (via samsaramotel) (via crashinglybeautiful) (via thesoundingbored)
Ten Unexpected Collective Nouns
thesoundingbored:
constantwanderlust:
wordjournal:
rout • a rout of wolves
clowder • a clowder of cats
descension • a descension of woodpeckers
disworship • a disworship of Scots
mute • a mute of hounds
raft • a raft of ducks
unbrewing • an unbrewing of carvers
neverthriving • a neverthriving of jugglers
drunkenship • a drunkenship of cobblers
shrewdness • a shrewdness of...
My Tumblr just turned 1!
Let’s take it out for dinner and cake.
October 2009
1 post
August 2009
2 posts
June 2009
25 posts
In one day...
I will be leaving for Spain. Ahhh! Excitement and anxiety.
For those Tumblr’ers who wish to keep up with my sporadic ramblings, I have to keep a blog for my fellowship: so please check it out! And send me comments if you see fit (or suggestions for the layout, since it is obviously still a work in progress).
Adam in Barca. [http://adaminbarca.wordpress.com/]
Just Give Up: Sharks Are Serial Killers →
“Only people who are very intelligent and very unhappy can write good poems.”
– Orhan Pamuk (via thesoundingbored)
…what are you trying to say, Iza?
summer 2k9 to do list: revised
addition: “visit adam in spain”
mariellie:
i crossed some things off of my to do list this weekend! i am literally planning my summer like a HUGE NERD…let me know if there’s something i missed or if you want to join me for anything!
astoria beer garden (i live within walking distance—why haven’t i gone yet?)
french movie night at bistro les minots
shakespeare in the...
People of the world, can we talk about this?
minderbinder:
The Zulu word for ‘cow’ is also the zulu word for ‘vagina.’ When I asked a zulu guy why, he said ‘they’re both really valuable.’
:-)
Hahah. I love it.
“Like, they have kickball leagues with kegs,
whereas, I feel like you and I...”
– Whit Ken
Hmmm....
X. J. Kennedy observed in the Atlantic Monthly. “[James] Merrill never sprawls, never flails about, never strikes postures. Intuitively he knows that, as Yeats once pointed out, in poetry, ‘all that is personal soon rots; it must be packed in ice or salt.’”
He’s himself in these moments, not pieces of the women he’s slept with. He enters their lives as you enter a dream, without volition, and he lives there as you live in a dream, however long it lasts. And in the morning, you remember nothing of the dream at all, nothing at all.
- “In the Cafe”, Louise Glück
"Paula Deen Is Trying to Kill Us 2"
“Remember when Paula Deen tried to kill us with deep-fried butter?
She’s back, this time with a recipe for fried mac and cheese. And not just any garden variety mac-and-cheese recipe. Nope. This one calls for a pound of bacon and five eggs total.
Wait—only 4 tablespoons butter? Is that a typo?” <src>
This makes me kind of nauseaus. I know people like her but…...
“want to come with me to a wedding …. in cyprus?”
– Iza [These are the questions I like to hear.]
I have to create a publicity blog for my fellowship, and I’m thinking Tumblr might not work the best. What about Wordpress or Blogger? Thoughts?
When he worked he felt a scratch at his calf, a scarlet wound, a whoop of blood. He was hungry; even his eyes were hungry. All he saw was red: red snow, red legs of women in the village rues, red pinwheels of hay. “It is a wonderful thing to hurt a human being, something that lives. It is confoundedly difficult, but after all it is splendid.” Beyond the window, a cave opened in the...
May 2009
23 posts
My current life exactly
You guys rock. Let’s all move to NY and create a commune of unemployed misfits. I’ll play the part of the poet, Erin can be the chemist, and Daphne will be the hot one. How’s that sound?
daphers:
You’re not alone honey bunny. I will be unemployed in 2 weeks and will be moving back home because I can’t afford DC without a job. My only plans for the summer are helping my mom...
I love this woman.
Louise Glück (on one of my poems): “I think you have to leave the bedroom in order to find the answer.”
Me (laughing): “That sounds like something my therapist might say.”
L.G.: “Well, in that case, I disagree with your therapist.”
“I miss youuuuuu. I almost cried about it yesterday during a Hong Kong film...”
– Ms. Haley Hoffman
Was thinking about my uncertain future again, and looked up this little gem from Richard Brodhead that he e-mailed me back in the fall:
All you can do is keep as many options active as you feel truly attracted to, see what choices you have, make one, then trust to time and your own inner efforts to shape the whole life you want. “Oh, Time, Strength, Cash, and Patience!” as they say...
"Benefits proposed for same-sex partners of U.S....
One of the reasons Hillary [CNN] should have been president. Am I allowed to say that? Obama has pretty much choked in this regard:
“And yet the changes aren’t coming as fast as many gay Americans would like, and as our Bill of Rights would demand. Especially in Washington. Despite Barack Obama’s pledges as a candidate and president, there is no discernible movement on repealing the...