September 2011
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marginal gloss: On arriving at the office, she... →
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On arriving at the office, she clicked In on the first popup to clock in, and the light changed from red to green. At lunch, she clicked the Lunch button and the light changed from green to amber. After lunch she clicked Lunch again, and the light changed back to green. And then at the end of…
I can understand this story on so many levels: when I was younger, right after...
August 2011
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Lar Angerdusk was struck down by a bogeyman in the Hill of Towns. I’m feeling pretty sad about that, guys. He was my favorite.
If The News Media Was A Person →
Momentary reprieve for something you might actually enjoy. Terrorize Your Followers Tuesday will resume after this break.
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Dropped another five followers yesterday! Some combination of eighties music videos, mockery of teenagers, and disrespect to the sacred cow of The Writer’s Lifestyle, no doubt. I guess I should keep it up!
We’re about to see some George Michael up in this bitch, fellas.
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jamiedrew-deactivated20121129 asked: Also, hear me out on this tumblconspiracy: fernandofrench is just nickmiller under an assumed name. Or the other way around. Whichever works.
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jamiedrew-deactivated20121129 asked: Thanks to you, I clicked through to see this #prose drama, opened a new tab to gaze upon the glory of Hannah Hart and sigh to myself, reminding me that she's gay (again), forgetting about the first tab and recoiled in horror at this new, hellish dashboard. "Who followed these people while I was asleep?" I asked myself. "What does my evil twin have against me?"
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Guys, as tempting as it is, catty jealousy is not an appropriate response to my brilliance.
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Can we a get a reality check on the worrying about “hurricane” Irene? Seriously, it’s a Category I storm. I slept through those as a kid. A good clue that it’s Not A Big Deal is when the news correspondent is standing on the beach of the Outer Banks and he doesn’t even have the hood of his jacket up.
No offense, Yankees, but why does the media have to get a bee in...
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Unpopular Opinions: Because Who Needs Followers,...
There is a difference between the kind of people who watch Everybody Loves Raymond reruns and the Colbert Report. Unfortunately, that difference cannot be detected by modern scientific instruments.
No, seriously, let’s stick with this one: why is it that everyone seems to think it’s so clever and edgy and hip to watch this shit? Do you remember Saturday Night Live? Do you remember...
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Euripides, Sophocles, or Aeschylus?
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The next idiot I see equate cutting government spending with more jobs, I’ll shoot.
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Stop Coddling the Super-Rich →
superfluidity:
New York Times Op-Ed by Warren Buffett
If you make money with money, as some of my super-rich friends do, your percentage may be a bit lower than mine. But if you earn money from a job, your percentage will surely exceed mine — most likely by a lot.
Count on WARREN FUCKING BUFFETT to have the moral fortitude and mental discipline to see the forest, despite the trees.
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The Stooges, “I Wanna Be Your Dog,”...
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“He that hath a Gospel
To loose upon Mankind,
Though he serve it utterly—...”
– Rudyard Kipling, “The Disciple.”
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“I observe: ‘Our sentimental friend the moon!
Or possibly (fantastic, I...”
– T.S. Eliot, “Conversation Galante.”
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“Doubts of all things earthly, and intuitions of some things heavenly; this...”
– Herman Melville, Moby-Dick; or, The Whale.
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“The camera sees but doesn’t think. Whether animal, vegetable, or mineral,...”
– Lewis H. Lapham, “Dancing with the Stars,” the preamble to Lapham’s Quarterly, Vol. IV, No. 1. It strikes me that the constant and contextless stream of passive images absorbed in the more reblog-heavy corners of Tumblr, and by extension on the internet itself that Tumblr is a...
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jamiedrew-deactivated20121129 asked: Suggested additions to the advice:
—don't refer to your 'words' as your 'art'
—when you feel like quitting your job, don't expect other people to foot the bill
—the use of irony, metaphor and other non-literal uses of language, while not necessary, exactly, are encouraged
—don't refer to your 'words' as your 'art'
—when you feel like quitting your job, don't expect other people to foot the bill
—the use of irony, metaphor and other non-literal uses of language, while not necessary, exactly, are encouraged
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“Real strength never impairs beauty or harmony, but it often bestows it; and in...”
– Herman Melville, Moby-Dick; or, The Whale.
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“And there is a Catskill eagle in some souls that can alike dive down into the...”
– Herman Melville, Moby-Dick; or, The Whale.
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superfluidity answered your question: Lilies of the field. or Lily’s of the field. …
“Lilies of the field” is a fragment. “Lily[ i]s of the field” would be a complete sentence.
Nailed it. Look, someone on the internet who knows what they’re talking about!
I was going to use this as to introduce an object lesson about how I’m irritated by the kind of people who go around...
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Lilies of the field.
or
Lily’s of the field.
Which of the preceding is incorrect?
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A Time I Should Have Lied
Why’d you do it? you asked me, and I shook my head. This was the last day I knew you; then you were gone, to Coronado.
I remember, when I met you, your face: your saffron hair bound high on your head in an intricate knot, your skin pale white and blue and severe as a blade. Except when you looked at me. How you softened, and I knew I was your weakness.
Walking with you was like holding a...
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Advice to a Young Writer
Do not name your first novel by taking a line from one of Ernest Hemingway’s novels.
Especially do not do this if your novel rhapsodizes about depression, alcohol, being an expatriate in Europe, and prostitutes.
Definitely do not do this if the main character of your novel has the same first name as the main character of the Hemingway novel that you took your title from.
Never, ever do...
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jamiedrew-deactivated20121129 asked: I've been meaning to ask — how is A Road Called Ocean coming along?
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distorte replied to your post: Sorry I haven’t posted in a few weeks. Pick an…
sorry.coryarcangel.com
I fixed it.
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Sorry I haven’t posted in a few weeks. Pick an excuse: a) my girlfriend was in town for two weeks, or b) I got so pretentious that I took a vow of silence.
