January 2008
24 posts
Ernest Hemingway was once prodded to compose a complete story in six words. His answer, personally felt to be his best prose ever, was “For sale: baby shoes, never used.” Some people say it was to settle a bar bet. Others say it was a personal challenge directed at other famous authors.
“There are many times that I wish I had heard that ‘just who you are at...”
– Fred Rogers, in Life’s Journeys According to Mister Rogers Thank you to Bridget for this wonderful, precious book. I am reading it now and his quiet, simple wisdom is making my heart sing.
this is why i never kept a journal either
i feel so obligated to write things on this blog. witty, funny, interesting things. but when i sit down to remember what i was thinking during the day i cant recall anything worth blogging about.
Watchim a nerd.
Presidential Debate Question I Just Daydreamed...
“Hi. This is a question for all the canidates. So, any thinking person who’s read more than one book knows that you can’t be both intelligent and religious. Which one are you? Please limit your response to twenty seconds and please include the answer to the question in your response.” — rickyv
tldnr?
“I’m sick of religious media commentators being up in arms about the perceived secularization of Christmas. I agree that materialism is out of control in our culture, but humans all over the world have been celebrating the winter solstice time since long before Jesus. Roland Martin recently said, “we should continue to remember that Jesus is the reason for the season.” Well, no; the reason...
my playlist right now.
1. fall out boy- bang the doldrums 2. fall out boy- youre crashing, but youre still no wave 3. marques houston- that girl 4. mario- how could you 5. gym class heroes- viva la white girl 6. dru hill- beauty is her name 7. the doves- black and white town 8. daft punk- digital love 9. crash test dummies- afternoons and coffeespoons 10. matisyahu- time of your song
i swear to god right now im listening to eddie money’s “take me home tonight.”
you know what i think would be really...
is if a band came out with a cd entitled “audio cd” and then every track was just called “track 1, track 2…etc.” i would thoroughly enjoy this because it would drive those anal itunes organizers crazy.
e-over it
why doesn’t anyone send paper mail anymore? its such a romantic medium.
Watchchloe likes to dance almost as much as i like 90’s r & b jams… almost.
more on the love theme, oy vey.
has anyone ever told you that you “don’t know what love is?” how does that make you feel? your only response should be “shitty as hell.” because, inevitably, regardless of how untrue, youre left contemplating if its true. do you?
“‘Love,’ this English word: like other English words it has tense....”
– from the novel “A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers” by Xiaolu Guo, as quoted in the review in Ms. magazine by Gail Tsukiyama (emailed to me by my dad). I’ve always thought of love in the Chinese sense - once you love someone you can’t stop loving them. But then...
tumbling because..
ive never kept a journal or diary of any sort. the reason i dont like therapists is because they never have any feedback to offer that i don’t already know. so this is going to be a collection of my conscious thoughts where readers (if i will have any, of course) can possibly relate or offer coherent (hopefully) responses. :) enjoy.
