May 2010
12 posts
“People live in Brooklyn because it’s cheaper. It’s not a money thing...”
– Oh man, this girl, from this piece.
“Bunny had an uncanny ability to ferret out topics of conversation that made his...”
– What is WRONG WITH ME that I hadn’t read The Secret History until this week? Bad life decision all around. Sidenote: I was so engrossed in the book this morning that I almost got hit by a biker and then a paleta pusher. The latter muttered in Spanish, “Watch it! These damn white girls,...
As A. put it, “you’ve been quiet as a fucking mouse.” I’m coming back shortly. If anything, I will be stuck in a Southern state in humid hothouse hibiscus weather for over a week with my moms, and I’ll probably need somewhere else to go at some point.
“Lea Lane Stern and William Cleaton Lewis Jr. were married Saturday evening in...”
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Oh good lord.
Source material.
Do You Like Me? Check YES, NO, MAYBE, or BLOG...
[“There’s nothing positive on there, absolutely nothing, but the kids don’t seem to be able to stop reading, even if people are saying terrible things about them,” said Maggie Dock, a middle school counselor in Kinnelon, N.J. “I asked one girl, ‘If someone was throwing rocks at you, what would you do?’ She said she’d run, she’d move away. But she won’t stop reading what people say about her.”]
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“It is completely impossible to say. It is like falling in love. Only perhaps...”
– Maira Kalman, on the moment girl met pen.
“No ‘feeling it’. No sunglasses. No rocking out. No improvising. No...”
– You will need a subscription to the New Yorker to read this profile of James Murphy, but it may very well be worth it. 