January 2010
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December 2009
77 posts
“And how can you say I love you to someone you love?”
– Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
“Do? You? Really? Love? New? York?” He said, “New York?” I...”
– conversation between Oskar Schell and Fo Black in Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
“…wouldn’t it be great if mattresses had spaces for your arm, so that...”
– Oskar Schell and his mother, from Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
For your reading pleasure...
If you find yourself in need of any reading during the next three days you probably have left of break, may I suggest
Strange Pilgrims by Gabriel Garcia Marquez a collection of short stories by Mr One Hundred Years of Solitude. They’d be good for someone who wants to say they’ve read GGM, but doesn’t want to commit to a novel.
Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far On Foot...
“…belief does not necessarily imply comprehension…”
– Joseph Conrad, Typhoon
“‘I can’t understand what you can find to talk about’ says he....”
– the skipper in Joseph Conrad’s Typhoon
Bye.
I’m off to the Oregon Coast for four days. Not bringing a computer, but you can expect some cell phone photos of sunsets and whatnot while I’m there, and maybe a story once I’m back. Hope everyone’s still doing well out there on the Internet.
See you on the flip side.
“For me, a hotel corridor has always been a neighborhood. You hear sobbing,...”
– Excerpt from Howard Norman’s Kiss At The Hotel Joseph Conrad
Day 2 of Christmas Break, realize you didn't bring...
panic for a second before you remember that you never wear pants anyway. Throw on some thick tights, legwarmers, boots, call it good until the stores open for cheap post-holiday sales.
Post-family visit/pre-Christmas midnight mass...
Wine-drinking.
Cheese-eating.
Original Rocky and Bullwinkle cartoon-watching.
“I realized you can always study the character of a man by the way he chops wood...”
– Jack Kerouac
Big Sur
And now...
for an inundation of photos from the road trip Tom and I made home over the past two days. Enjoy.
4AM
Dumping rain (for the second time in Orange) and I’m on my way home. Finally.
Let’s do this thing.
“Always pretend to be thinking”
– Anonymous
Just had a perfect night at Haven.
During which I reconnected with a friend I haven’t seen in years (since high school in fact)
During which I returned to Haven with my coworker and we shared an espresso/chocolate chip cookie with tobacco ice cream. (surprisingly tasty)
During which Adam and Eric got along swimmingly with said coworker.
During which the waiters were hot AND friendly.
During which I drank a little too...
Lesley you should be ashamed!* →
*of your state.
Get crackin’ girl…I bet the Chapman bookstore would love to open a satellite branch out in Laredo.
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It's 11 00PM...
and I’m done for the night. This is the first time this has happened since before I can remember.
I’m going to get into my pajamas and glasses and read some chapters of Big Sur until I fall asleep.
Or maybe I’ll just go straight to sleep.
Either way, I have to be up at six thirty tomorrow morning, but it’s fine, because I’m going to be rested.
Finally.
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Dark chocolate.
is so much more delicious than I remember it being. Even the kind of shitty Hershey’s bar kind…
Dear Dillon,
Why are there options?
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