January 2011
Dexter
Mom: What are you doing?
Me: Watching Dexter. I'm at a really intense part and you just called and I peed myself a little.
Mom: Oh, geez. Why are you watching it then? I thought you didn't like scary stuff.
Me: It's not scary. It's just intense. And now I'm all consumed with the idea that everyone I encounter is a serial killer. In fact, I just heard my neighbors grinding up something in their blender, but all I could think about was how it might have been an electrical tool for chopping up bodies!
Mom: OMG, please go rent some Disney movies!
“No matter how long you live in New York, it’s still fun to look up and pretend...”
– Liz Lemon, last night’s 30 Rock
The Gentleman's Directory: A Guide to Manhattan... →
“Readers were warned on Page 5 that they would not learn where Central Park or the Croton Aqueduct were from the book’s contents. What they would find, the book stated, were facts about New York hospitality ‘which could not be procured elsewhere.’”
Quite an interesting read.
The Writer Who Wasn't
I entered NPR’s three-minute fiction contest this week (stories that are less than 600 words and can be read aloud in under 3 minutes) and I wanted to share my entry. It’s not my finest work, but it was a fun little challenge. This round required the writer to include laughter and crying at some point in the prose.
The Writer Who Wasn’t
Emma had all the ingredients to be a...
“First, try to be something, anything, else.”
– Lorrie Moore, “How to Become a Writer”
“Starting this year, no American will be forbidden from serving the country they...”
– President Obama, SOTU.
“It was as if my stomach thought of itself as a heart. And no matter how I filled...”
– Erica Jong, Fear of Flying
Maybe.
Co-worker: You know it's [our CEO]'s birthday today right?
Me: I did know that. Will there be some sort of gathering in the conference room with treats and libations?
Co-worker: I love it. You're always looking for a party, aren't you?
“Well, one of my new year’s resolutions is to just say yes! Yes to love!...”
– Liz Lemon
David Letterman: What do you like to do in your free time?
Betty White: Play with animals, mostly. And vodka's kind of a hobby.
Thought Catalog: You Should Date an Illiterate... →
Don’t date a girl who reads because girls who read are the storytellers. You with the Joyce, you with the Nabokov, you with the Woolf. You there in the library, on the platform of the metro, you in the corner of the café, you in the window of your room. You, who make my life so god damned difficult. The girl who reads has spun out the account of her life and it is bursting with meaning. She...
Mom: Did those headless people across the street REALLY keep you up last night? Mom: seems like there’s much more scarier stuff than that in NYC Me: like what? Mom: like the ones WITH heads.
“Finally, a reason for science to exist: A researcher in Philadelphia (of...”
– Max Reed [Gawker]
Movement Music: A Playlist for MLK Day [The Root] →
