Shorter Excerpts

Jul 06 2009
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elvira:

sexmusic:

southern girl // incubus
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discodazzler:

Don’t make me tell you again about the scootching!

You in the red, chop chop.

The only thing that could’ve made this better: if they got Walken instead of Jay Mohr’s really spot-on impression.

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[Writing] feels difficult to me a lot. Which doesn’t mean I don’t love it and I’m not pulled to it on a daily, nightly, insomniac basis. Your point about it being very hard work is a good one. It’s tremendously hard work. Yes, I love arranging the words and having them fall on the ear the right way and you know you’re not quite there and you’re redoing it and redoing it and there’s a wonderful thrill to it. But it is hard. It’s a job of tremendous anxiety for me.
— Pulitzer Prize-winning author Elizabeth Strout enunciating why writing is so damn hard, in Newsweek.com’s “Author’s Roundtable” (see here for the full transcript). (via chfdigital) (via cajunboy) (via inothernews)
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A Pitch

tesslynch:

I was watching The Real World last night, a fact of which I am not ashamed, because TRW has given me some of my favorite moments in television (mostly early on, see: the Irene years, but still, I have hope).  However, there is something untimely about a bunch of under-25-year-olds living in a Very Fancy apartment/hotel suite, paying street vendors $100 for mannequin heads (that happened this season), and not taking their jobs seriously.  What I’d really like to see is seven strangers, all in their 30’s, picked to live in a modest (or kind of grungy) apartment, and have their lives taped.

How about we call it Losers. Imagine: instead of lithe young bodies lolling about on a velvet chaise, breathing I love you’s into the phone with a bored roll o’ the eyes, we’d see a kind of overweight dude nursing a 2 PM brew and sitting on a stool, throwing some nunchucks at a person he hasn’t seen since college in a Facebook ninja battle.  Let’s put the real back in the world: I want to see the blonde girl, Amanda, trying to fix the air conditioning unit by herself and then getting so frustrated she punches it and inadvertently knocks a mouse trap onto the floor, which will later deploy on her housemate’s flip-flopped foot.  I’m talking about unplanned pregnancy, people!  I’m watching to see what happens when people stop being polite, and start paying bills!

I have the feeling it would end a lot like Lord of the Flies. But wouldn’t that be the pinnacle of reality tv, anyway?

Don’t forget exciting footage of them doodling during meaningless business meetings, and checking their Blackberry on the toilet because the boss needs an answer on who’s in for online mini-golf ASAP.

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barelysarcasm:

Don Coyote and Sancho Panda…

This is what’s going to take care of my brain today while I try and block everything else out and do some work on something that I actually care about.

I think this show was my first exposure to Quixote/Cervantes…

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Subtle - “Midas Gus”

A different take on boastful rap…

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They can’t even get the team name right some of the time…
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You didn’t expect proper spelling in NATSTOWN did you?

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meth:

I’m really sorry if I’ve been bragging a lot recently here on the ol’ tumblog, but I’m so proud and thrilled with my team and how well we performed this year.  First hurdle of judging: CLEARED.

Also, we are “award winning” filmmakers now.  Crazy.

Speak for yourself about this “now” stuff…(Woody Awards count right?)

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Smells Like Money

ryanpurtill:

I think it would be funny to open a strip club right next to a crab house so when people walked by they wouldn’t be sure if they were smelling the smell of an amazing crab house or a horrible horrible strip club. That moment of the decision would be great.

Also strippers after seafood is a pretty smart biz (short for business) plan.

Works Cited: Someone funnier than me.

Also, if they shared a parking lot there could be all kinds of misadventures when leaving customers recommend that arriving customers “try the crabs.”

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My favorite part of The New York Times (motto: ”No Longer Making Things Up, As Far As We Know”) is a weekly section that reports on things that trendy New Yorkers are doing. This section is called Sunday Styles, because it would be rude to come right out and call it Rich Twits on Parade.
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It’s pictures like this that remind me not to feel too sad for Andy Roddick…
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Nicole Krauss on creativity, writing.
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