January 2010
34 posts
“Garp’s mother, Jenny Fields, was arrested in Boston in 1942 for wounding a man...”
– John Irving, The World According to Garp (via first-lines)
I’m following this blog that posts the first lines of books! And I just need to say that this is really one of the best books I’ve ever read. The first chapter could stand alone as a work of art.
The blog is making me want to...
This song is good.
“Learn to Fly” -...
“Luckiest Man” - The Wood Brothers
“One final paragraph of advice: do not burn yourselves out. Be as I am - a...”
– -Edward Abbey
Could I really be like you? Could I, please?
Honestly, sometimes…
I fear that I will fail at either of those ways of life.
Okay, ONE last one. One that’s guaranteed...
“A weird, lovely, fantastic object out of nature like Delicate Arch has the...”
– Edward Abbey, Desert Solitaire
Reblog Prank?
I just thought of something. What if a widely followed blogger posts something, and lots of people reblog it, and then the original blogger edits the post and changes it to a long slew of offensive cusswords in all caps—would it show up like that on everyone else’s blogs?
Urban contemporary gospel: ”The Best is Yet...
Haiti Rescue Video →
This might be the most amazing thing I’ve ever seen.
Petting the dog
is what I was just doing, and I had a weird thought. When I’m sitting on the couch and Clyde is sitting next to it, and I’m petting him with his back facing me, if I suddenly stop, he’ll turn his head and look at me. I always just assumed this was his way of “asking” for more pats.
But if I think about what that actually means, it means that he sort of has the...
The last six minutes of Dr. Martin Luther King,...
30 Rock →
If you haven’t watched the last two episodes, which both aired this past Thursday, WATCH THEM. You will not regret it.
Okay, next up is New Orleans brass band gospel.
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My post yesterday about “This Little Girl of...
“The Girl from Ipanema”
Necessary.
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Why did I have so much to post before, when there were so many other things I should have been doing, while now I have nothing?