November 2011
51 posts
Werewolf Bar Mitzvah
Tracy Jordan
Werewolf Bar Mitzvah! Spooky! Scary! Boys becoming men! Men becoming wolves!
October 2011
64 posts
“I’ve been homesick for countries I’ve never been, and longed to be where I couldn’t be.”
—John Cheever (via vintage23elfride)
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The Tangential: Tips on Compiling Your Grown-Up Christmas List →
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I wish people would make loan payments for me…guh.
(A razor is a very thoughtful and practical Christmas gift. This girlfriend is a horrible bitch.)
Your mother/significant other/grandunit/probation officer insist you provide a list of Christmas presents you want this year. Ten-year-old you instantly starts compiling a mental…
“Sometimes,’ said Pooh, ‘the smallest things take up the most room in your heart.”
—A.A. Milne (via c0mets)
a boy called me cute. in an “interested in you” sort of way. still slightly insulted.
although maybe I blushed a little bit too.
“Listen, smile, agree, and then do whatever the fuck you were gonna do anyway.”
—Robert Downey Jr. (via creatingaquietmind)
“But in Indiana it’s not like New York where everyone’s like, ‘We’re from New York and we’re the best’ or ‘We’re from Texas and we like things big’ it’s more like ‘We’re from Indiana and we’re gonna move.”
—
Jim Gaffigan (via cateythelady)
Ha!
(via girlwithalessonplan)
The Tangential: What Happens in Your First Year of Being a Normal, 9-5 Adult →
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You get generally depressed about things like paying for cavity fillings.
Suddenly you’re making 3x what you made in college. You consider switching from shitty whiskey to Jameson and living it up. You join a gym and contemplate magazine subscriptions. What a self-sufficient person you…
“But then anyone who’s worth anything reads just what he likes, as the mood takes him, and with extravagant enthusiasm.”
—Virginia Woolf (via libraryland)
Robert Frost, "Fire and Ice"
Some say the world will end in fire,
Some say in ice.
From what I’ve tasted of desire
I hold with those who favor fire.
But if it had to perish twice,
I think I know enough of hate
To say that for destruction ice
Is also great
And would suffice.
(submitted by leairene)
“I adore simple pleasures. They are the last refuge of the complex.”
—Oscar Wilde (via myquotelibrary)
so grateful for everyone in my life right now.
The Tangential: Being a Productive Writer →
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Someone asked us a question earlier about how Jay and I write so often. It was already answered, but I wanted to add my two cents.
Question Bro/Lady-
It takes awhile to learn how to write productively. I used to sit and agonize on the structure of stories, papers and articles, editing and…
“It’s the magic of fiction: you take words and you build them into worlds.”
—Neil Gaiman, Stories (via dontblinkdontevenblink)
“I fell in love with her courage, her sincerity, and her flaming self respect. And it’s these things I’d believe in, even if the whole world indulged in wild suspicions that she wasn’t all she should be. I love her and it is the beginning of everything.”
—f. scott fitzgerald (via uhhleeahh)
“Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.”
—Voltaire(via wordpainting)
Stef Pixner, "Intimacy"
my love has white arms
and many faces
I deal a tricky pack of hearts
and aces
we smile
and wave
but do not find
us
all our rubies
glitter to blind
us
(submitted by lademarche)
“An easy life doesn’t teach us anything. In the end it’s the learning that matters: what we’ve learned and how we’ve grown.”
—Richard Bach (One)
