December 2010
16 posts
New Words for the New Year
katiecoyle: blackswan (verb): 1. To enter into a process of mental or emotional breakdown so intense as to produce physical discomfort in the people around you. “Charlie Sheen really blackswanned all over that hotel room.” 2. To not understand the symbolic elements of a highbrow art film. “Sorry, I’m blackswanning. What just happened to Natalie Portman’s legs?” 3. A general verb, evoking bad...
Dec 30th
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I just took one of my brother's Vicodin.
It was my mother’s idea. I have a migraine. Let’s see how this goes.
Dec 29th
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It is recommended to let homemade egg nog sit for 3 to 5 days before drinking so that it can mellow. But fuck it. It’s Christmas Eve, and drinking freshly made egg nog is an excuse to get plastered on whipped cream. Merry Christmas, everybody.
Dec 24th
Egg nog acquired.
Tree decorated. Stockings hung. Mantle decorated with freshly clipped holly. All is well.
Dec 24th
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It's Christmas Eve
I am setting up my dad’s fake Christmas tree and decorating his house by myself. Pandora had better stop playing sad Christmas songs.
Dec 24th
Hundreds of letters to Santa are mysteriously... →
And here too. This is so wonderful.
Dec 24th
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Hey!
If you feel like it, check out nthWORD magazine, which is edited by Ryan, a friend from the circus farm. It’s got stuff in it like words! and pretty pictures! and creepy pictures! and more words! and an important article about the new government in Hungary which is systematically blacklisting artists for being gay or Jewish or other terrible things like that! Hooray!
Dec 24th
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A good sign?
I decided to get over my mopey self and just start putting shit away. In the pile of socks was a five dollar bill I’d lost two months ago! Huzzah!
Dec 15th
I am listening to a version of "Little Drummer...
So wrong it’s right?
Dec 15th
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The detritus from the last six months of my life...
Taking it out of suitcases and laying it all out on the floor and my bed is one thing; that’s easy. Figuring out where to put it all next is really hard. It involves me thinking about the coming months of my life and I am really, vastly unprepared to do that.
Dec 15th
Dec 15th
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Librarian Pirate: Chicagoland library/early ed... →
librarianpirate: lalalimonada: The Oak Park public library has two paid internships for people with interest in storytelling to kids and early literacy development. Let me know if you’re interested. They do this internship 2 or 3 times a year. It used to be 3 but they were thinking of quitting the summer… I’ve been thinking a lot recently about moving to Chicago. In fact, I was...
Dec 15th
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What’s the website where you type in someone’s Tumblr and then you can listen to all the songs they’ve posted? ANSWER: trntbl.me   (thanks, Bingo!)
Dec 14th
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Sometimes you spend three months living and...
and when you come home, you don’t know what to do with yourself.
Dec 14th
I'm running a 5K tomorrow morning
Naturally the forecast in Northampton is snow.
Dec 4th
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I am queen.: I received a letter in a gorgeous... →
hurricane-k: Her letter (including two awesome recipes) put a huge smile on my face. I love tumblr so. Here’s the poem she enclosed: Magic Words from the Inuit (and Robert Bly) In the very earliest time, when both peple and animals lived on earth, a person could become an animal if he wanted to and… Having a pen pal is awesome. I get to brag to my housemates about the letter I...
Dec 2nd
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