August 2008
57 posts
“She wasn’t doing a thing that I could see, except standing there, leaning on the...”
– J.D. Salinger, A Girl I Knew (via mascarah)
Under wide blue skies / There’s a place to...
“But my wife can, with one careless word, suck the life out of me. And at the...”
– Matt Chandler
I don’t think it even needs to say “wife.” Replace that, if you want, with “significant other,” “girlfriend,” “fiancee,” whatever. It’s so completely, totally 100% true.
“When was the last time you wanted to say it all to the right person? To have it...”
– Henry Rollins (via srsly) (via stare-at-walls)
Oh man. I know this one.
“She had said to me – they were nearly the last words I heard from her before she...”
– Graham Greene, The End of the Affair (via scout)
“When in doubt, always kiss the girl.”
– John Carney, 101 Tips for Living (via markyb)
Except not always.
“I pay very little regard…to what any young person says on the subject of...”
– Jane Austen, Mansfield Park (via enquotations)
“How strange and awful it seemed to stand naked under the sky! how delicious! She...”
– Kate Chopin, The Awakening
“As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.”
– Henry David Thoreau, Walden; or Life in the Woods
grandma june had a lot of furs.
Brother: If I had a chinchilla I would name it Scrambles, if I had a ferret I would name it Wiffles and if I had a fox I would name it Mittens.
Me: I always imagine a chinchilla as a fancy hamster.
Mother: I always imagine it as a coat.
Just a heads up to the fine people in Nabisco’s marketing department:
Saying your product has 0mg of cholesterol really makes people think “OMG. CHOLESTEROL.”
Optimism from Health Services after getting a tetanus shot:
“Okay, so this probably isn’t going to hurt a lot right now, but when you wake up tomorrow morning, it’s going to feel like I took a baseball bat to your arm. And since you’re currently on Prednisone, you might actually feel a little worse than people usually do.”
Worse than taking a baseball bat to my arm....
I just want to watch a movie tonight. I’m feeling sedate and chilly and sleepy and throbby.
“Throbbing” is such a horrifying word to me.
Fish sticks for dinner, guys. Fish sticks.
My list
scout:
crazyfor-you:
I started this Tumblr account off figuring I’d give the link to friends and family to keep in touch better after I move. I’ve decided against that - and now you get a fairly more open me.
With that said, I just found this list in a series of saved blogs from late last year. It’s rather amusing and still very ‘me’ - so…enjoy.
A good kiss turns me on…as does hand holding,...
Playing through Diablo 2 with a friend on LAN is rad.
“As he held her and tasted her, and as she curved in further and further toward...”
– Tender is the Night, F. Scott Fitzgerald (via ermengarde) (via scout)
Why aren’t we reading THIS Fitzgerald book in English classes?
“Suburban kids are uniquely mean. They don’t have the dangers of drive-by...”
– Sloane Crosley, I Was Told There’d Be Cake (via derbygirl)
Jonna Lee - The District Sleeps Alone Tonight...
“Poetry, like love, is made in bed.”
– André Breton (via luminol) (via berenike) (via streusand) (via scout)
“How are you? Fine, and you? It’s not that we don’t care, it’s that we’re...”
– Richard Siken (via align)
I like how my Eleven shirt turned out. I’ll post pictures later!
Josh Ritter - Monster Ballads
I made delicious french toast this morning.
“I kind of just want to see my mom.”
– Dave Phelps, after winning his record-setting 8th gold medal.
Potter film release date delayed →
The release date for Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince has been pushed back by eight months, to July 2009.
Josh Ritter - Come and Find Me
“Would it help if I paid you in Sacajawea dollars?”
– Jared, trying to bribe me with five dollars to do the dishes. Alternative offers: 20 Chicken McNuggets, 5 Quik-Trip sodas, 10 cans of soda.
Not awesome: poison ivy.
Josh Ritter - Girl In the War
Josh Ritter - The Temptation of Adam
“If this was the Cold War we could keep each other warm,” / I said on the first occasion that I met Marie. / We were crawling through the hatch that was the missile silo door, / And I don’t think that she really thought that much of me. I never had to learn to love her like I learned to love the Bomb; / She just came along and started to ignore me. / But as we waited for...
Muxtape? I has one. →
I basically just picked twelve songs that I liked from my iTunes.
WatchOkay. Normally I think FunnyOrDie videos are more “die” than “funny,” but this mock campaign advertisement featuring Paris Hilton—in the wake of John McCain’s ad comparing Obama to Hilton and other young celebrities—is actually pretty clever.
"a large list of almosts" →
Vivid, visceral stream-of-consciousness writing. I liked it, but didn’t want to post it in its entirety here.