January 2012
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“You are so young, so much before all beginning, and I would like to beg you,...”
– Letters To A Young Poet, Rainer Maria Rilke
December 2011
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styleite.com →
Mindy Kaling and Bill Clinton talk books with Ann Curry. I almost forgot how thick of an accent Bill has.
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Things that I consumed in the past week
Books I finished:
Michael Lewis’ Boomerang
Books in progress:
Julian Barnes’ The Sense of an Ending
Kevin Wilson’s The Family Fang
I started Crimes in Southern Indiana: Stories by Bill Frank but I got bored!
Articles:
“Choosing” by Jeff Moskovitz in Tablet Magazine, on 81-year-old Israeli novelist who sued to become the first official secular Jew in Israel
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“We face a demand for freedom from religion in the civil registry,” the verdict...”
– on 81 year old novelist Yoram Kaniuk, who sued to become the first Jew in Israel officially labeled “without religion.” The result has sparked a movement towards official secularism. Read “Choosing” in Tablet Magazine by Jeff Moskovitz, an inspiring piece of journalism.
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Is JJS the new DFW? Essays from Pulphead →
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Google Documents Past and Present
Item from my Google docs: “Should I go to law school?” Last modified in September. A question, reaching back to probably the early 2000’s. I remember sitting on a stone bench in Florence, Italy when I was 20 and studying abroad and furiously scribbling in my leather diary about my growing doubts on the topic. It never stops! The only thing in this document is a quote that I found...
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“She had to do more than hold on. She had to reach. She had to want it more than...”
– The lovely and amazing Sugar, always an inspiration, on reaching. From “How You Get Unstuck” on Stephen Elliott’s The Rumpus.
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“But Ms. Gable said such background checks were the one thing she needed Facebook...”
– “Shunning Facebook, and Living to Tell About It,” NYT.
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LOL e-mail subjects from my Gmail inbox
I just got an email from a certainly daily website whose subject line says:
Your Apartment Called: It Wants a “Dwell” Magazine Subscription
Really? Are you sure what it was saying that and not garbled by some bad AT&T connection? ‘Cuz I think what it wants is a new couch, a fancy new coffeemaker (sorry, French press!), to be in a less noisy location, and actually maybe...
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Things that I consumed this week*
Books I finished:
Joan Didion’s Blue Nights.
Books in progress:
Michael Lewis’ Boomerang. (have gone through Iceland, Greece and Ireland; all horrifying).
Helen Oyememi’s Mr Fox.
Food:
On Friday, December 2, I ate meat for the first time. I went to Seersucker, a Southern-focused restaurant in my neigborhood. I shared a simple salad with my fiance, and ordered a plate of their...
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New World Becomes More Popular, Bla BLaaa etc.
Like Perez Hilton. But for History. Love this.
perezhamilton:
Colonizing the New World is the new black!!
Turns out everyone is ditching England to start life anew in the West. People are colonizing every piece of land they see, including Maryland, Connecticut and Rhode Island.
Everyone is all smiles until the Indians come shooting arrows through their brains!! Have fun with that!
YAWN,...
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