July 2011
“You can only be in a bad mood for so long before you have to face up to the fact...”
– Megan McCafferty, Sloppy Firsts (via in-backyards)
“Vanessa sat silent and did something mysterious with her needle or her scissors....”
– Virginia Woolf, from “Old Bloomsbury,” c. 1921-22 (via proustitute)
I’m just going to leave this here.
“She can have had no illusions about the man she was marrying, since right at the...”
– on mary welsh, one of ernest hemingway’s four wives. (via winesburgohio)
“You’re looking very Mrs. Rochester this morning.”
“Is that supposed to be an...”
– there is a passion for tall flagstaffs hereabout.:
secondarywaltz asked: The pictures of you dressed up for the grocery store are adorable!
fizzingwhizbie asked: Re: "Laundry Day"
This is just so well written it leaves me a little breathless. I know things can be just so hard and sometimes you feel just so...tired... But I completely agree with the last anon. If this, these paragraphs, this writing is what you have to show for your days then that is really wonderful. As a reader of novels, I just wanted to tell you that your...
This is just so well written it leaves me a little breathless. I know things can be just so hard and sometimes you feel just so...tired... But I completely agree with the last anon. If this, these paragraphs, this writing is what you have to show for your days then that is really wonderful. As a reader of novels, I just wanted to tell you that your...
electricorchids-deactivated2012 asked: greatly enjoying your mix of poetry and fashion on this blog. :) kudos.
Anonymous asked: whats the process to become an american citizen if you live in canada?
“Writing is loathsome work. How do you get anything done? How does anybody write...”
– CITYOGRAPHY: right out of the knot in my chest
Jimmy Soul - If You Wanna Be Happy
Dance around...
GPOY Dressed Up For The Grocery Store
Required stance for strapless dresses:
“We talked death with burned-up intensity, both of us drawn to it like moths to...”
– Anne Sexton, on Sylvia Plath (via awritersruminations)
“A poem is an empty suitcase that you can never quit emptying.”
– Kay Ryan (via theparisreview)
“What a shame that time passes, don’t you think? What a shame that we die, and...”
– Roberto Bolaño, The Savage Detectives (via fwriction)
“I was something that lay under the sun and felt it, like the pumpkins, and I did...”
– Willa Cather, My Antonia (via awritersruminations)
“There is always a sheet of paper. There is always a pen. There is always a way...”
– H.L. Mencken (via delawareareyou)
A Twee Grows In Brooklyn →
LILY HAVE YOU READ THIS ARTICLE ABOUT BROOKLYN AND PORTLAND?
I’m not entirely clear what the article is arguing (that Brooklyn is becoming too precious? that preciousness is ok if it’s self-conscious? that living in Portland/Brooklyn is like eating locally produced candy until you puke because there is such a thing as too much of a good thing?), but that title is pure gold.
I love...
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It's My Saturday Night
In 1997 I loaned my Spiceworld CD to my best friend. She lived in a different town and we saw each other only when we threw enough tantrums to force our mothers to get together and make small talk about their failing marriages. I never got that CD back.
Thank God for Spotify.
New York City Tumblrs
(Sorry I start so many posts that way.)
My best friend and fellow tumblr Lily is looking for a room/share in the city. If you are looking to rent out a room in your fabulous apartment, or you know of someone who is, please send her a message with the details!
Ideally the room would be:
- less than $800/month
- already furnished
Ideally you would be:
- responsible
- friendly
- not crazy
...
Things Getting In The Way of My Personal Success
- triple decker turkey club sandwiches
- Very Expensive magazines
- an intense passion for margaritas
- book-buying sprees
- the heat
- shipping charges
- the ability to access my work email from home
- missing you
“She had always wanted words, she loved them; grew up on them. Words gave her...”
– Michael Ondaatje | The English Patient (via evoketheforms)
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“You’re an expatriate. You’ve lost touch with the soil. You get precious. Fake...”
– Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises via Scribner Books:
“Yes, many people, probably most people, say that disliking your body is a normal...”
– Sarah Maria (via curvesahead)
“Below a certain point, if you keep too quiet, people no longer see you as...”
– Douglas Coupland (via creatingaquietmind)
Last Night I Dreamed
I was competing in a beauty pageant. I was confident and strutting around the narrow corridor where all the girls were waiting to go on. And then it was almost my turn. I watched the girl ahead of me. She did a series of complicated backflips down the aisle. I realized suddenly that this was a combination gymnastics and beauty pageant and I couldn’t do a damn cartwheel, let alone a...
Vacation, All I Ever Wanted
I haven’t had more than 3 days off in a row in over 14 months. That’s a long time for someone like me who still can’t wrap her mind around the idea of working during the summer. However, I have a week’s vacation to use this year, but not a ton of money.
I’d like to go somewhere outside the US, preferably somewhere with a beautiful beach within walking distance. Big...
Selecting a Reader
First, I would have her be beautiful,
and walking carefully up on my poetry at the loneliest moment of an afternoon, her hair still damp at the neck from washing it. She should be wearing a raincoat, an old one, dirty from not having money enough for the cleaners. She will take out her glasses, and there in the bookstore, she will thumb over my poems, then put the book back up on its shelf. She...
“It’s odd that she has come to represent, for some, a kind of soulless hipster...”
– The NY Times Magazine profiles Miranda July. (via thebronzemedal)
Five Follows
It’s been a while since I made one of these.
monodialogue - recent favorite of mine - wry, witty, and surprising
calivintage - a style scrapbook with plenty of vintage appeal
lazybookreviews - this smart lady writes about a lot more than just books - notably: television, feminism, and marriage, all without pretension
missmossblog - perhaps my most favorite fashion blogger; her taste is...
