October 2011
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September 2011
29 posts
Better ones today.
Yesterday, one essay read like long-form Courtney Stodden. I wish it were ethical to copy & paste excerpts. Just trust me.
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“The hard-scrabble realism of these 17 stories will bring to mind the Ozark writer Daniel Woodrell and shades of Cormac McCarthy and Dorothy Allison—offering a view of American lives and mores that may as well be from a different planet.”
via The Daily Beast: Best Debut Novels of Fall 2011
That’s enough recommendation for me.
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Sitting in a city park, waiting for a soccer practice to end, knowing this could be a Twilight Zone version of my life. Thank Jebus , the kids aren’t mine and I’m being paid to be here. I love you, but quit with the snack talk.
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@eev-e
thegreatpumpkin:
Definitely weird, but I feel like it’s almost expected of him at this point. Like he’s trying to cultivate this public image of himself as a sensitive eccentric type. Works for me, though, not gonna lie.
Truth. My fantasies hate that it is, in part, a cultivated public image thing. I want to believe that Gos would be up for running around in a park, like, legit screaming an...
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“I always dreamed of going to New York, and to Vancouver, because I liked the...”
– Why Brazilian Sinomar Godois Tavares decided to hop on a motorcycle with his girlfriend and go from Brazil to Alaska and then back to Brazil (stopping in New York.)
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On a trip to the mountains around Flagstaff, L, Ladybar, Deeb, and I camped next to a woman from Patagonia who was doing something...
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blueandbluer:
greycatbrigade:
*dying*
I am posting from beyond the grave.
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Pop Up Video Returns?!
Their little jingle was how I remembered the capital of Uruguay. I’d sing-song “Mon-te-vid-e-o”
Of course it’s “Mon-tay-vid-ay-o,” but I had a test in Spanish class over Latin American capitals and I was 16.
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Same here, little man.
I’ve started nannying (sitting? kidsitting?) for a family member. It’s a few hours a day and includes school pick-up and homework patrol. Enforcing homework time is easy: they have a routine and they know they’re supposed to get it done before they do anything else. Doling out snacks that one or the other won’t try to beg or barter for seems a bigger task than I foresaw,...
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Cluckin' Chicken
I saw this.
I don’t have a ceramic baking dish like that, and I’m less inclined to stand to cook all the time, but I have a Crock Pot. I also don’t have whiskey because Washington state says I can’t buy it in a grocery store.
I made this: BBQ! Nectarine! Red Pepper! Chicken
Ingredients
1 4-5 lb. chicken 1 whole onion, sliced into rings, chunks,...
