January 2011
25 posts
“Any event is infinitely prismatic. I guess that’s what I would say:...”
– Lauren Slater via Creative Nonfiction 40
all prisms, all the time.
“I want an infinitely long blank book and the rest of time”
– Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close, page 279
which is where i’m at right now, wanting to write instead of doing other things, which is, of course, the way it goes. i can’t clear my head.
alcatraz:
“But the internet is at least partly us; we write it as well as read it, perform for it as well as watch it, create it as well as consume it. Watching TV is a solitary activity that feels like a communal one, while the internet is a communal experience masquerading as solitude.”
(via dire)
A couple of years ago I read something that had the completely opposite take. It talked about...
“But the internet is at least partly us; we write it as well as read it, perform...”
– How novels came to terms with the internet | Books | The Guardian
via NewPages. oh, it’s happening. but then i don’t know how often technology should really factor into literature (other than, say, a passing mention) unless it’s significant to a character or to the story (and if...
"i see god in birds and satan in long words"
upcoming: the long haul. the new semester has begun and already i am picturing piña coladas that are a different, nicer kind of frosty, rather than the midwest’s not-sure-i-can-feel-my-face temperatures…
dear internet,
i think i need a break.
“or maybe it’s rapture”
– kevin devine / “ballgame”
re: donald glover's location
L: I always see him go to those taco things that move around!
camera-hunting
canon EOS rebel t2i/550d is looking good, with similar specs to the pricier 7d (ready to wreck my bank account!). i am biased against the nikon d90 since i’ve read the canon gets better colors, but i’m sure it’s all subjective
5d mark ii is on my improbable wishlist since i still harbor the belief that it CREATES MAGIC
holgaroid back: y/n
too much time at photojojo
getting...
Hansel said Gretel
driveondriver:
“There are no wolves
in this story –
trust me, I would know,
said the Girl,” said the
Boy. “If there were
wolves, said the boy,” said the
Girl, “they would be
Us.”
if only i could implement the solution
spoilers are aptly named. i’ve gotten into an internet screaming match over spoiler posts on tumblr and i’ve been very regrettably nasty in real life, too. i even wrote a rant in april 2009 about the internet and spaces and audience consideration:
Writing something on a public blog is equivalent to installing a permanent exhibit of your thoughts — an exhibit open to the...
los angeles is
somewhere i do not miss.
to be fair, i don’t think i managed to explore the city to its fullest, even though i had four years and able legs. i lived there but i didn’t live there, maybe — i had the worst luck with public transit and rarely ventured downtown — so i mostly stayed in westwood and santa monica (summary: cozy, privileged, chill, with a crush of college...