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Weekly Tweet Digest – 2012-01-22

Sunday, January 22, 2012
  • scavenge scavenge scavenge scavenge scavenge #scavenging #
  • @kateulinah i miss you guys also. hugs all around. when hugs are over i will need you to surrender your ipad. (life: i have been at work.) in reply to kateulinah #
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Weekly Tweet Digest – 2012-01-15

Sunday, January 15, 2012
  • Longtemps, je me suis couché de bonne heure [mais jamais tout à fait assez de bonne heure] #
  • @mkazoo thumb piano with sustain pedal? or effects pedals? does not matter; i will know soon; i will be that old man sometime soon. in reply to mkazoo #
  • If one must be at work alone on sunday night, one should play miles davis, charlie christian, and edith piaf at high volumes. #
  • $100 or i will chain myself to the doors of your posh chapel & play "white wedding" 100x on accordion, clad in spider-man themed bodypaint #
  • i'm just thinking of more reasonable ways to make money. #
  • also i have reached the stage of fatigue during which i 1) am convinced the walls are made of large, flat, still people, & 2) forget things. #
  • @mkazoo can/shall do. (re: elderly busking) in reply to mkazoo #
  • @taylor_audrey moved to tom waits, verdi, and the rosebuds. makes up for it, i guess? in reply to taylor_audrey #
  • @mkazoo glad to creep you out. i like the image a lot, actually, & all the better because i actually hallucinated it briefly. in reply to mkazoo #
  • @mkazoo oh noooo sent with too many actuallys, actually. #actualwordabuses #actually #meaninglesssyllables #sssss in reply to mkazoo #
  • all the time talking we are talking like gertrude stein would be talking if she were typing or talking if she were typing #
  • Pro tip: do not eat a sandwich while holding a pair of scissors. #
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Weekly Tweet Digest – 2012-01-08

Sunday, January 8, 2012
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Weekly Tweet Digest – 2012-01-01

Sunday, January 1, 2012
  • @kelceyherrera severe lols at santa's crangrape. in reply to kelceyherrera #
  • christmas events: @danaROrana is reading the family a best-of selection from her new cookbook. #
  • christmas events: i have been wearing a new knit hat for three hours, yelling about sick rhymes. also neglecting everyone to read new books. #
  • @danaROrana BEDTIME STORIES. "and then the lonesomest garlic clove cried a single tear, because he had met his new best friend, hot butter." in reply to danaROrana #
  • It is a truth generally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of no fortune must be in want of a 5lb can of ravioli. #
  • The boys of the nypd choir are still singing galway bay #
  • Watching a dude pick up ladies at the aviator by walking up to them at the bar & gyrating vigorously. #
  • Dance attack = success? #
  • Bar band is now playing free bird solo interlude to 'keep on rocking in the free world'. POWER Medley? #
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Weekly Tweet Digest – 2011-12-25

Sunday, December 25, 2011
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Weekly Tweet Digest – 2011-12-18

Sunday, December 18, 2011
  • Perfect Tense: grammar-themed parody fps. we'd use goldeneye maps. #
  • @smoonen miss you too, buddy. been sick for a month. it's gross. i'm still going to julie's enbarnsening today–see you there, maybe. in reply to smoonen #
  • The Ferguson Conundrum: What Shall I Do With All of This Junk? #
  • heteroglossia in my notebooks, polyphony in my conversation #
  • http://t.co/oIQmdfUs waelp. #
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Weekly Tweet Digest – 2011-12-11

Sunday, December 11, 2011
  • something has eaten all my sleep and i do not know where to procure more of it help help please help et cetera. #
  • the degree to which i am sleepy: the pronouns in my sentences have no clear antecedent. #dang #ohdang #grammardang #
  • the rest of my evening i will spend muttering grammar-themed wagner jokes to myself. #grammarungenlied #
  • When one feels that those one loves are sad, one hopes that affection will make them forget it—Marcel Proust, in a letter to Antoine Bibesco #
  • eating the horses. #
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Weekly Tweet Digest – 2011-12-04

Sunday, December 4, 2011
  • @kateulinah maybe there will be some womb biting deleted scenes on the home release? a special feature short film, Twilight: Hysterectomy? in reply to kateulinah #
  • i've had several delightful roommates, but @danaROrana is the first to bake cinnamon rolls for me. #
  • @taylor_audrey your priorities are as they should be. in reply to taylor_audrey #
  • Verschränkung – entanglement, interconnection, crossing #wotd #
  • "I made it one whole year, Think it went pretty well but I’ll tell you in a minute it was shorter than it felt" — bombadil #
  • sometimes you try to start writing a book & you might be in a foul mood & by the end of the first paragraph everybody is covered in weevils. #
  • but too there are are enough weird -punk genres, maybe this will start a revolution in fiction. viva la weevil. #realtalk #weeviltweets #
  • Internet outage at my apartment convinces me of how much i'd get done without it. #writing #
  • when people tell me they've been in a car accident i text them the phrase 'well daaaaaang' & that is all. #
  • This is because my principal components are compassion and tact. #
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So Astute and Perfectly Weird

Tuesday, November 29, 2011

All those years and I never realized
why I found the mourning dove so interesting
until you pointed out
that morning we stood by the icy window
its resemblance to Robert Penn Warren—
the secretive eyes, soft royal neck,
and the mild, unruffled demeanor.

It was the day after a garrulous night
of champagne and shrimp, lamb and red wine
and we were watching a huddle of them
pecking around in the fresh snow under the feeder
(Pulitzer Prize winners all)
and your comment, so astute and perfectly weird,
made me feel enclosed again in the coded talk
of friendship, that tall pagoda
where companions can sit on pillows
and observe the great China of life filing by
and say whatever comes to mind.

—Billy Collins, from Influence, in the collection The Art of Drowning

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Weekly Tweet Digest – 2011-11-27

Sunday, November 27, 2011
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