February 2012
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Harold & Maude Go To White Castle
Do The Duggars begin their childrens’ names with J because of Jesus?
Guadalupe the hippo, of the Woodland Park Zoo, weighs 3,285 pounds.
Is Ruth Gordon as Maude in Harold & Maude the original embodiment of the Manic Pixie Dream Girl?
This law enforcement composite sketch of Jane Eyre’s Mr. Rochester is turning me on.
Ben Aflac, Ben Aflac, Ben Aflac.
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January 2012
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Auto-Lullaby
Think of a sheep knitting a sweater; think of your life getting better and better. Think of your cat asleep in a tree; think of that spot where you once skinned your knee. Think of a bird that stands in your palm. Try to remember the Twenty-first Psalm. Think of a big pink horse galloping south; think of a fly, and close your mouth. If you feel thirsty, then drink from your cup. ...
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We are not shady, just fierce.
– Paris Is Burning is streaming on Netflix.
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In Which This is A Metaphor for Something, Right?
Fact: Before it got the name Seattle in late 1852, the city was known as Duwamps.
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Song
I am stuck in traffic in a taxicab which is typical and not just of modern life mud clambers up the trellis of my nerves must lovers of Eros end up with Venus muss es sein? es muss nicht sein, I tell you how I hate disease, it’s like worrying that comes true and it simply must not be able to happen in a world where you are possible my love nothing can go wrong for us, tell me
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Fears Upon Impending Cohabitation
The building we are touring does not appear on Google Street View. Instead, there is a photo of a large pit under construction. If we move there, we will cease to exist. Our photos will begin to fade ala Marty McFly.
Ghosts. Any.
We will absorb the depressed, alcoholic vibe of the modern one-bedroom with the stained white carpeting. Vertical blinds that conceal the tiniest of balconies...
December 2011
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Horse Piano
The idea is to get a horse, a Central Park workhorse.
A horse who lives in a city, over in the hell part of Hell’s Kitchen, in a big metal tent.
You have to get one who is dying. Maybe you get his last day on the job, his owner, his tourists. You get his walk back home at the end of the day, some flies, some drool. You get his deathbed, maybe. And then, post mortem, still warm,...
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Once, a duck she was cooking caught fire, and she threw it in the pool.
– Michael Stipe on Gwenyth Paltrow, from The New Yorker’s Best of the Talk of the Town 2011.
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Old Loves
As you fall asleep tonight, I want you to remember that:
Molly RIngwald dated Adam Horovitz.
Michael Caine fell in love with Natalie Wood.
Bette Davis held hands with Howard Hughes.
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November 2011
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To Myself
You are riding the bus again
burrowing into the blackness of Interstate 80,
the sole passenger
with an overhead light on.
And I am with you.
I’m the interminable fields you can’t see,
the little lights off in the distance
(in one of those rooms we are
living) and I am the rain
and the others all
around you, and the loneliness you love,
and the universe that loves you...
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Men I Was Attracted to But Also Scared of, an...
1992-2000
AC Slater
Bob Saget
Vanilla Ice
Extreme sportsmen
Fred Durst
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Would you pay $50 to see Condoleezza Rice play the piano while Gloria Steinem...
– Julie Klausner, How Was Your Week
And yes, of course.
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Anonymous asked: I thought you and your readers might be interested in a Seattle area contest in which they can help the hungry and have a chance to win a box of Full Circle organic produce, and the chance to win a dinner for 4 at a local restaurant that serves Full Circle produce. You can find more details on Full Circle's Facebook page.
October 2011
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