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Monthly Archives: September 2008

Twitter Digest – 2008-09-22

More books from guardian angel. Success. Need more shelves. # among my guardian angel finds: “the crying of lot 49″ and “the phantom tollbooth” as well as 5 lemony snicket novels. and much more. # “Banging on the table with an old tin cup / Sing I’ll never kiss a Gun Street girl again / [...]

Twitter Digest – 2008-09-21

“I carved your name across my eyelids, you pray for rain I pray for blindness” — Arcade Fire # The Face could laugh and cry / it was his Devil twin. / And at night she spoke to him / Of things heard only in hell # – tom waits # “everybody row, everybody row.” [...]

Twitter Digest – 2008-09-20

Mom is making me grilled cheese… Some things are good forever. #

Twitter Digest – 2008-09-19

new m$ ads even worse than previous http://is.gd/2Qof this one is not as terrible, but it’s still bad. let’s be “quirky”: http://is.gd/2Qoa # also: Arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrgh. Grog, pillaging, and so forth. # oh, so smashing pumpkins was trying to be peter ivers… http://is.gd/2QAh # @ryanquattlebaum this weekend is busy. the hearties and i are attending a [...]

Le Petit Prince

When I was a kid, we had a claymation video of The Little Prince which scared and bored me in turns. My mother threw it away years ago, in a pre-move purge of nonessential objects, and I never missed it. I couldn’t find any footage online, so I can’t reevaluate it. Maybe it wasn’t as [...]

Twitter Digest – 2008-09-18

putting my library into librarything. i’m on shelf 2 of bookshelf 1. still not enough. # it is morning again. this happens with some regularity. # @smoonen oh yes, i am a digital spendthrift. # “All writers are discontent. That’s because they’re aware of a potential and believe they’re not reaching it.” — William Saroyan [...]

The Dangerous Alphabet

One of my favorite writers, Neil Gaiman, wrote The Dangerous Alphabet as a Christmas card, which along with his “Nicholas Was” flash piece, is an example of my favorite way to celebrate Christmas: write a creepy story. HarperCollins decided at some point The Dangerous Alphabet would make a better book than card, so they asked [...]

Twitter Digest – 2008-09-17

“Macbeth’s dilemma is that he wishes for acts without consequences–the only real impossibility.” — Alberto Manguel, A Reading Diary # “politeness of heart” = “the emotion in which love is not a rapture and has not yet become a ‘passionate friendship’” — Alberto Manguel # “Not many people have small dogs in Alaska… the eagles [...]

The Big Sleep

The Big Sleep is the first novel of Raymond Chandler’s I’ve read, and so far the best. The language is magnificent. The cadence, iconic similes, and raw energy all form a tense, brooding mood which plays over my mind in black and white. And, of course, the dialog snaps back and forth—everybody’s clever; witty repartee [...]

Twitter Digest – 2008-09-16

played rock band 2 w/ my roommate… quite fun. i’m a lousy fake guitar player, though. # if there is an alien race who communicates through colored buttons on a timeline, i am prepared to debate them. or at least out-shout them. # and then some crazy serb killed poor franz, and the world explored [...]