July 2008
60 posts
The brain may take advice, but not the heart, and love, having no geography,...
– Cousin Randolph, Other Voices, Other Rooms (Capote)
Women as suicide bombers. Seriously effed up. →
Now, 75 years later in an abundant society where people have laptops, cell...
– Harper Lee
Reading List
Now reading:
which I am in love with.
Have also begun:
SCRABULOUS BANNED FROM FACEBOOK. →
Why does the United States hate food. →
He told police: "I can do that, it's my lawn mower... →
BYOF(ood) in Tasmania →
I think it's very silly that the New Yorker's... →
Google maps incorporates walking directions;... →
Feeling Rural
“Just to live in the country is a full-time job. You don’t have to do anything. The idle pursuit of making a living is pushed to one side, where it belongs, in favor of living itself, a task of such immediacy, variety, beauty, and excitement that one is powerless to resist its wild embrace.”
EB White
Russia to outlaw emo →
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Reading List
Just finished:
Now reading:
Which is about BRATTLEBORO. Peter is my friend Willie’s dad, the man who directed me in a youth theater production of the Crucible, a professor at the Governor’s Institute on the Arts, a former commune-dweller, and an accomplished clown, juggler, and mime (half of the world-renowned clowning team Gould & Stearns). He’s also apparently been...
I am not unique
Unsurprisingly, there are many other Liz Turners in the world. It follows that some of them would have email addresses similar to mine. I often get emails for a Liz Turner who is a member of some kind of sorority alumnae organization; today, I think, I got an email from a different Liz Turner altogether:
Subject: Squatters and workers unite!
Hi Liz i found an article about the bus strike in...
Weird nostalgic attitude toward mass closing of... →
Jewelry made of milk. WHAT. →
"one of the best things about being a woman today... →
LAUREN PIRES I CHALLENGE YOU TO FOODFIGHTZZZ →
Emails from dad →
Knit organs. →
Awesomest town ever
I miss Europe.
Le Burger? →
(via cuntyvirago)
Vertical farming! →
I gotta say, I think I agree with this guy about the Obama New Yorker cover hullaballoo. Key line:
“Calling on the press to protect the common man from the potential corruptions of satire is a strange, paternalistic assignment for any journalist to give his peers, but that appears to be what The New Yorker’s detractors desire. I don’t know whether to be crushed by that...
Deleting that terrible photo of your weird... →
Text-only Big Lebowski →
every night at 7 right off of the island is a slightly disconcerting lumberjack...
– i want emma’s job
‘BLOGGING IS THE MASTER ART.’
-Plato, 2k10
– My new imaginary internet friends, www.hipsterrunoff.com
Sean likes good songs. →
Lil Wayne: moving closer and closer to the top of... →
Retail-induced PTSD? →
In defense of Anne Shirley →