February 2011
28 posts
This probably qualifies as "overthinking it" but I...
Or was the problem that, at that point in his career, even with an Oscar nomination and an appearance on “Inside the Actor’s Studio” and a slew of magazine stories about the postmodern phenomenon of James Franco, the industry represented in the Kodak Theater still didn’t have a very strong impression of James Franco himself, hence no basis from which to find the idea of...
My favorite ever overheard conversation in New...
Well, one of them. I was thinking about it today in a petit bakery when I stood behind an octogenarian who could not decide what kind of croissant she wanted to order. (Sidenote: In 80 years if you cannot learn that the answer is always either plain or chocolate, I really doubt the nature of essential truths). Anyways, enjoy, the ballad of Milly and Ruth.
Picture it: 2007, two over-eighties in...
Gurus
R: what should i do this week?
A: rediscover oregano
listen to porcelain raft
eat a piece of crumb cake
watch downton abbey
start thinking about your summer look
think of ways we could kill joyce carol oates
i would like to put her in a burlap sack and toss her into the river
or maybe dip her in caramel and roll her in candy and feed her to toni morrison
Dwight Garner
Is one of my favorite reviewers, for so many reasons. But these few paragraphs are one of them:
These things wouldn’t matter much, though, if her sentences didn’t make such a sensual, smart, wired-up sound on the page. Holding “Day of Honey” I was reminded of the way that, with a book of poems, you can very often flip through it for five minutes and know if you’re going to like it; you...
doree:
maura:
i really love that there is a band called ‘wait what’
I would like to start a band called “No… But Yes.”
Someday I will make t-shirts for the debut “Gah” show.
From an email I just got:
From this: “But Jessica Simpson has never been about snob appeal. As her business manager, David Levin, explains, the original idea behind Simpson’s fashion brands was this: “A girl could go to the shopping mall with her mother and she’d have a great new outfit and still have some money left for lunch at McDonald’s. She can look like Jessica Simpson, smell...
Happy V-day.
Having a Coke With You, by Frank O’Hara
Having a Coke with You is even more fun than going to San Sebastian, Irún, Hendaye, Biarritz, Bayonne or being sick to my stomach on the Travesera de Gracia in Barcelona partly because in your orange shirt you look like a better happier St. Sebastian partly because of my love for you, partly because of your love for yoghurt partly because of the...
Just read the whole thing.
“Most things will be okay eventually, but not everything will be. Sometimes you’ll put up a good fight and lose. Sometimes you’ll hold on really hard and realize there is no choice but to let go. Acceptance is a small, quiet room.
One hot afternoon during the era in which you’ve gotten yourself ridiculously tangled up with heroin you will be riding the bus and thinking what a worthless...
“We were in Vegas, which is a city I’ve always loved for its ability to be...”
– If you haven’t read Danielle Evans’ short story collection, Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self yet, I recommend doing so before first thaw.
