January 2012
16 posts
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Ask an Abortion Provider: Roe v. Wade Edition →
“Let’s say, thought experiment. Let’s say Roe v. Wade got overturned. There’d be 1.5 million women who had been seeking abortions who can’t have a safe one. Someone will have an unsafe one and will die or be damaged for life; some women will have the child and not be capable of taking care of it. And we know that women who have unplanned pregnancies who go on to deliver have a higher risk of...
“Yeah, I’ll have that shit refreshing every thirty seconds. I haven’t...”
– Anders, on AWP 2012’s sold-out registration
You know you’re getting old when you look forward to doing your taxes on a Saturday night.
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Connotation Press: An Online Artifact →
My essay, “Flight Lessons,” is up at Connotation Press. It’s a great journal, and I’m super happy to have my work up alongside that of my MFA buddies: Kristofer Whited, Gavin McCall, and JJ Anselmi. Ch-ch-check us out.
WatchJust saw this today.
So, so proud of the Valley’s young writers, and so, so honored to be a part of something like this.
“So many textures are the same. So many views. Almost all arms and noons and lips...”
– Joy Williams, State of Grace
“Do you take pride in your hurt? Does it make you seem large and tragic? … Well,...”
– John Steinbeck, East of Eden (via fuckyeahexistentialism)
TrainWrite: Delusion Angel: Reprise →
trainwrite:
by Laura Musselman I watched as you poured two more glasses of wine, asked you about the craziest thing you’d ever done for a girl. I’d just finished telling you about the one and only threesome I ever had, searched your face for judgment, and maybe somehow disappointingly, found none. You…
New essay up at the wonderful TrainWrite, fronted by my dear friend (and a writer I...
Confession: I am pizza.
So it’s an hour into 2012, and so far, I’m proud of myself for finally recognizing the moment when I should take my heels off before I break an ankle.
Thank you, 27.
December 2011
8 posts
My Valentine’s Day display almost killed someone last night at work.
Whoops.
That's Ms. Independent, to you.
With Anders home in Minnesota, and Jeff visiting Brandi in Indiana, I’ve managed to get a lot done the past few days.
In other words, I didn’t have any men-folk around to do things for me because I’m lazy like that.
In other words, I didn’t talk to a damn person all weekend and cleaned my house from top to bottom. I even fixed the vacuum cleaner all by myself. I also...
“All my life my father had been manifest as an absence, a nonpresence, a name...”
– Nick Flynn, Another Bullshit Night in Suck City
A Message to Women From a Man: You Are Not "Crazy" →
I know a number of men that probably don’t think they should read this article, but probably should.
Hint: If you’re a male and read this title and think, “That’s crap; I don’t need to read this,” then you should. You ought to. Do it for our society, and the future of our people. Now. I can’t begin to tell you how many times I’ve dated a...
November 2011
12 posts
“Professional blogging” just got real intense. One hundred twenty five, 250-word web page descriptions by the end of the month?
…sure?
phiLOLZophy: How to Have an Existential Crisis →
philolzophy:
Get born. Your existence precedes your essence, after all! No but for real, get born, ideally to a family that will raise you with (undoubtedly conservative and/or traditional) values that you at some point come to reject.
Drive to a cliff. Stand at edge of cliff. Look to bottom of cliff….
Boom. Nail on the head.
Watchyoungpasta:
Happy two-week anniversary, Pumpkin Centipede!
This is fucking terrifying.
BTW, I’m a “professional blogger” now or something. Huzzah!
Oh, 21st century America. You’re funny.
“Veslovsky played worse than the others. He was too eager, but he kept the...”
– Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
October 2011
8 posts
“The woods are hopeless. Don’t waste your time, they will be destroyed. So will...”
– Caterine Vauban in “I Heart Huckabees” (via fuckyeahexistentialism)
So, Sunday night we went to the fair and I went to the psychic, as I usually do. She told me that a job would fall in my lap that would pay more than my current job, as well as offer benefits.
Yesterday morning I got a call from a job I’d applied to months ago at the Central Valley Training Center, a program that helps integrate developmentally-disabled adults into the community.
Today I...
My roommate is playing video games with Tom Bissell.
#mylifeisaverage
Today is rain, sweaters, boots, new hurr, and the first day of the Fair.
Tomorrow is winter shopping at H&M and the zoo.
I could not be happier than I am right this second.
September 2011
7 posts
“And indeed there will be time For the yellow smoke that slides along the street, Rubbing its back upon the window-panes; There will be time, there will be time To prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet; There will be time to murder and create, And time for all the works and days of hands That lift and drop a question on your plate; Time for you and time for me, And time yet for a...
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“Nobody lives, nobody dies. Nothingness lives, nothingness dies. You are not....”
– Osho (via oceanofmind)
“One of the duties of the artist—not the only duty, but a central one—is to impel...”
– Steve Almond, The Decade of Magical Thinking