January 2010
13 posts
J.D. Salinger
One: I stole Catcher in the Rye from 11th Grade English. When we were all done reading it, as a class, and after we passed Holden up to the front, and after five piles of six books were walked to the back, the bell rang. I stalled from leaving; no one really noticed as (a) I was, as I am still, wonderfully a mess and (b) have always been able to disappear from crowd (which means lovely things for...
On the way into the City tonight, on the B, staring at the Statue of Liberty standing in the East River, I was overcome by either an intense loneliness or the flu. They feel exactly the same.
Instead of fan-wanking to the State of the Union, Audra & I had a date night. On MacDougal, next to the famous falafel place that is next to the Comedy Cellar, there is a old (apparently 1927 is old)...
Books I read in 2009: Part 2- Just, thank you
Picking up for before:
What can anyone say about The History of Love that hasn’t been said before? It almost breaks your heart. It could have. Nicole Krauss could have left three lonely damned drifting, souls’ asunder with their lifelines never ever to cross and bring any explanation, let alone closure, but she didn’t (with a fourth). Sobbing, late after midnight, I finished it...
Anderson Cooper: HERO
I am patron of the ARTS. This is amazing, internet.
Why is this wonderful? Because maybe we (I) could one day publish, in any form, that our (my) words & thoughts are legitimate. Yes, it is a selfish thought, all writing is much as it is that as it is selfless. The indulgent martyr, as hope and striving for connection to the world at large remains eternal and, worse,...
Books I read in 2009: Part 1.1- You Broke My Heart...
I forgot one:
Jack O’Connell does noir, a moderm-sort, none-too-different the awesome and huggable Haruki Murakami, except he does it to make you hate what the City does. That it is ancient and terrible and eats your soul. That it wants to. So you have this terrible old hospital in a terrible city (sort of based on Boston) where people who stuck in comas are more or less stored, where a...
Books I read in 2009: Part 1- You Broke My Heart
This is that book list that I gave up but decided that that was a bad choice but not the original draft because that is now dust. Also I am limiting to 3 or so of each sort, otherwise this is all I would be doing.
Equal and opposite, because how they work, are Anagrams and Both Ways is the Only Way I Want It, by Lorrie Morrie (on the internet-recommendation of Meaghno ad nauseam) and Maile...
“A lot of the people who read a bestselling novel, for example, do not read much...”
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The Economist (via mudd up, peterwknox) (via marco) (via fascinated) (via mikehudack)
I’m not sure why this article completely disregards what I find to be the most interesting aspect of this conversation: the democratization of “the review,” and the shift towards consumption based more on what...
We canceled our cable. I’ve been without TV since about Halloween.
I forgot how ridiculously awesome it is to drink tea and read a book without a laugh-track or the sound of chung-chung.
And by ‘tea’, I mean either green tea or wine. Either way, IT IS AMAZING
(tonight it is the classiest $3 bottle white from Trader Joe’s)
This should have been a Tumblr →
This is the best thing I have read all year! (in its all ten days)
1- oh holy shit we’re buying a fucking home
2- It may be in JERSEY
3- Friday I tried to explain how I was feeling stressed about this prospect.
4- If you took a three year-old, filled him with cupcakes and cola, let him have a go on a trampoline, the ensuing vomit on the carpet could have explained better my discomfort. It would have been more put together as well as articulate.
5-...
Letters, to Holiday Movies
1.
Dear James Cameron,
If you wanted me to go watch Fern Gully, then all you had to do was say, “Go watch Fern Gully.” I have a copy of my own, thank you very much.
2.
Dear Disney,
Please do this again. Forever.
Also, you owe me one ticket to New Orleans.
3. Dear Guy Richie, Robert Downey Jr., Jude Law, and Rachel MacAdams,
Please read my letter to Disney. I am also very sorry...
First Google of the New Year
Can Cats Eat Chocolate?
Answer: Yes. Not like a whole bar of chocolate bar or something like that, but a cat shoving its face into your ice cream bowl when you turn around for thirty seconds is apparently cool because they’ll do it anyway (those greedy moochers).