March 2011
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DirectTV on airplanes seems great until the second-grader sitting next to you lands on the History Channel and then says, loudly, “Dad, what’s lynching?”
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A+ to whichever Burbank airport employee selected this Best Of 80s Alternative CD to soundtrack my trip through security.
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“Do you ever wonder, when a guy stares at you in public, whether or not he’s thinking about making your face into a skin lamp?”
“What?”
“Nevermind.”
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The Shangri-Las, Give Him A Great Big Kiss
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Keren Ann, Run With You
Did you guys catch that...
The time a dude suggested we read Lady Chatterly’s Lover together and I thought he wanted to be my friend.
Trying to write a story for the WOZQ magazine about the time we booked Ted Leo and whatever band Ian Svenonius was in during the fall of 2003. Ted was excited to eat at Smith College’s vegan co-op, but Ian made us take him out for Chinese food.
I say ‘trying’ to write about this because I can’t stop laughing.
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It is unsettling in a pleasant and yet extremely narcissistic way to run into people you assumed were dead.
❒Single ❒Taken ☑ Married to the Phillies
lifeaquatic:
Permanent status for lifeaquatic and monodialogue.
Someday Molly and I are going to get into the locker room at Citizens Bank Park.
Crowdsourcing fantasy baseball draft ideas begins now, ends at 11.55am, PST.
picture of SOM starting the Triangle Shirtwaist...
ALWAYS TAKE TRIANGLE SHIRTWAIST FIRE BAIT.
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Daydream Mix →
thenotes:
Designed to obliterate your productivity. Or excuse the lack of same, as the case may be.
Asobi Seksu /// “Counterglow”
Beat Happening /// “Indian Summer”
Belle & Sebastian /// “Take Your Carriage Clock And Shove It”
Belong /// “Late Night”
The Breeders /// “Overglazed”
Close Lobsters /// “A Prophecy”
Clubroot /// “Fire Fly”
Dirty Beaches /// “Lord Knows Best”
Fight Bite...
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Beach House, Gila
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Cellist Wendy Warner In A Russian Mood →
artyucko:
fairest:
Cellist Wendy Warner owns two cellos. One was built by Becker in 1963 and the other by Gagliano in 1772; “it’s like being married to two different people,” she says.
Warner won the 4th International Rostropovich Competition in 1990. She went on to study with Rostropovich, and I was fascinated when she told us that he never played the cello for her in their lessons. Instead,...
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I often have to remind myself that even Thoreau took laundry to his mother’s house.
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“Do you want to come to a party at [REDACTED]’s boyfriend’s band’s drummer’s house later?”
“I’m washing my hair.”
“All night?”
“Drying it, too.”
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Things I Found in a Box in the Closet of the Spare...
1. Bed and hope chest belonging to Kirsten Larsen, American Girl Doll
2. Crime and Punishment, Peavar and Volokhonsky translation
3. Single black stocking (I don’t anticipate finding its mate anytime soon)
4. Snowglobe featuring a picture of me and two friends, made during an event at the Smith College campus center
5. Empty bottle of Hendrick’s Gin
6. US$1.45 in pennies
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I put my hand in the pocket of a dress I haven’t worn in years the other day and pulled out a slip of paper with a library call number scribbled on it.
I typed the numbers into the LOC database this morning and learned that the record for the first edition of the DSM (the one where ‘hysteria’ is still a thing) was apparently, at one point, too important for me to throw away.
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“Do you see that?”
“Do I see what?”
“Well, if you can’t see it, there’s no point in me telling you.”
“OK.”
