May 2013
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In my neighborhood you’re either big pony or small pony. I’m small...
– dude on A train
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Life is a predicament which precedes death.
– henry james
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state of me in six words
asleep // feet balled in recidivist fists
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band name idea #844
The Soothsellers
April 2013
15 posts
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band name idea #813
Johnny Deeper & the Rhythm Method
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Proud of @jasoncollins34. Don’t suffocate who u r because of the ignorance...
– @kobebryant
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I am in 1920, standing before the trembling walls of Warsaw, and at my feet,...
– laurent binet, HHhH
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greasy album of the week
the low highway, steve earle.
how many bluegrass records are better than the mountain? how many anti-war truck driver songs are better than home to houston? how many irish stomps are better than the galway girl? how many deperado ballads are better than tom ames prayer? how many state of me rave-ups are better than i feel alright? how many death row songs are better than ellis unit one? how many...
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game of thrones
martin provides enough dirty realism for me to stomach the phantasmagoric nonsense. there are several particularly filthy fuck yous; two have been revealed on the show: the first was ned starks beheading, the second was the chopping off of jamie lannisters hand. the stark execution was early enough to suggest tone, but the lannister surprise caught me off-guard, set up beautifully over the first...
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person of interest
hope to hell we dont cast a Richard Jewell
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2013 baltimore orioles
wire to wire
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It was the end of the third day, an hour before he would die. At just that...
– leo tolstoy, the death of ivan ilych
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state of me in six words
no tolerance for “literally” and “actually”
March 2013
14 posts
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todays tumblr idea
people opening empty pizza boxes
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duck dynasty
gonna break my heart when we discover how many harvard lampoon alums write the fucker
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spector
leggy lana in lala-land made cyclops by kooky curmudgeon with high-caliber chew toy cravings. dig the soccer mom wig. dig the mescal ramblings of past symphonic splendor. dig act two of death in d minor.
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Know the bottle ain’t to blame and I ain’t trying to
‘Cause...
– mike cooley, women without whiskey
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camp
about five minutes into The Paperboy i realized i had read the book which was awful and so is the movie in that great Sweaty Shit-Eating Grin kind of way
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The most monstrous monster is the monster with noble feelings.
– fyodor dostovevsky, the eternal husband
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band name idea #809
The Wink Martindales
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(la) miserable
ann hathaway is the only one to put herself before the song, and when she appears at the end as The Ghost Of Christmas Oh, Hell No i groaned as if walking into an A train revival meeting
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state of me in six words
shadow // too much for resilient flowers
He was but slenderly supplied with a certain social boldness
– henry james, the lesson of the master
February 2013
14 posts
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state of me
the footfalls from the attendant outside the curtain gave me that uneasy feeling of waking up a guest on a still sunday morning
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metaphor
schaefer beer on girls, apparently. a store near me in bed-stuy sells 12-packs for $16. sixteen. i asked if that came with a 1000-pack of slim jims.
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creepy rictus
claire hoffman:
Now, Seth MacFarlane is thirty-nine, and I am—barely—a part of the generation that he’s supposed to be appealing to. But I felt nostalgic last night for the Academy Awards of yore, when I sat on a couch with friends and watched everyone be glamorous and semi-respectable and we got to be gross and snarky. MacFarlane broke through that boundary last night, and suddenly...
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argo fuck yourself
i like when ben affleck compared paul thomas anderson to orson welles. i like ben affleck. the town was fun. and so is argo. but if argo wins the oscar for best picture then something like united 93 should have won the fucker ten times over.
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state of me in six words
All solids dissolve, no wheels revolve
— wh auden
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farewell, downton
its not that two main characters were killed off in one season its that those actors wanted off — ive kept the entire series at arms length for this very fucking reason: the show has always felt like a lark; a series like #deadwood was able to pull off that sort of seat-of-your-pants carriage ride because it was original and claustrophobic and fucking nuts, this, though sumptuous and...
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the past is a fog that breathes out ghost after ghost, the present a freeway...
– ben fountain, billy lynns long halftime walk
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shit i like
when #SteveEarle says he wrote Valentines Day because he was tired of seeing the same ugly motherfuckers at all his shows
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valentines day
i knew i dug hillbilly music when bruce sang I got one hand steady on the wheel and one hand’s tremblin’ over my heart