{"id":801,"date":"2012-09-23T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-09-23T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/2012\/09\/23\/weekly-tweet-digest-2012-09-23\/"},"modified":"2012-09-23T07:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-09-23T05:00:00","slug":"weekly-tweet-digest-2012-09-23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/2012\/09\/23\/weekly-tweet-digest-2012-09-23\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekly Tweet Digest – 2012-09-23"},"content":{"rendered":"

dance venue across the water houses worst DJ of all recorded time. #<\/a><\/li>\n
elementary school for Liu Jinghui. every show and tell he brings a snake or a pheasant and disappears. eventually one kids brings a mongoose #<\/a><\/li>\n
two hour impromptu possessive pronoun discussion with my new best friend who is sixty years old. then i swam in the sea. #hellotherehatershi<\/a> #<\/a><\/li>\n
"what right
\n \/ more than the well-fed helpless barn-door fowl
\n \/ to scorn the larcenous wild-birds?" — Augusta Webster, A Castaway #<\/a><\/li>\n
New game: 1) get into "the worst sounds" competition with a four year old. 2) win. #<\/a><\/li>\n
New game: change all -er suffixes to -or in everyday speech. #<\/a><\/li>\n
an authority on horseflesh #<\/a><\/li>\n
helen dewitt – recovery #fiction<\/a> http:\/\/t.co\/c4JCOrko<\/a> #<\/a><\/li>\n
from now on when i say i am an #american<\/a> this is what i mean. http:\/\/t.co\/b5g9X9dw<\/a> should i just submit this as my visa application or what #<\/a><\/li>\n
#american<\/a> stuff also includes http:\/\/t.co\/kiQXharM<\/a> and http:\/\/t.co\/lcKTXcD3<\/a> and http:\/\/t.co\/KUptTnaZ<\/a> and http:\/\/t.co\/lIgiGOMd<\/a> #effwhyeye<\/a> #<\/a><\/li>\n
yesterday i ate an entire eggplant because i was taking down everything in the frigo that looked like it was about to go off or had gone off #<\/a><\/li>\n
NEW HAPS FROM PARADAZE IS WHAT I AM SAYIN #<\/a><\/li>\n
New game: divert all phatic conversation to Saki, and call him "Haitch-Haitch Moun-rowe" every time. #<\/a><\/li>\n
nitch v. neesh, the eternal battle #<\/a><\/li>\n
typing stories until the stories are all typed #<\/a><\/li>\n
also, sontag. http:\/\/t.co\/4QXjZQN0<\/a> via @brainpicker<\/a> #<\/a><\/li>\n
"Use either no ornament or good ornament." — Ezra Pound #<\/a><\/li>\n
and it's like, spend two minutes looking over some pound essays, resurface an hour later trying to work out cavalcanti from the original ehh #<\/a><\/li>\n
@taylor_audrey<\/a> some of them. it's a project for a year after i've learned some greek, eh. in reply to taylor_audrey<\/a> #<\/a><\/li>\n
so you can trace your ancestry to the 1200s. o yes you're respect-worthy. but pretty sure my ancestors were alive at that time too eh #basta<\/a> #<\/a><\/li>\n
dreaming in egg-based pigment, with arnaut daniel spinning the soundtrack. someone has taught him how to scratch. #<\/a><\/li>\n
"I have crossed, since morning at the Yellow Crane Terrace, \/
\nAll five Holy Mountains, without a thought of distance." — Li Bai #<\/a><\/li>\n
it's like, when will machines become smart enough to correct misspellings? #spooky<\/a> #<\/a><\/li>\n
i'd like to reinstate my membership in the republican party by positing that ovaries are actually furious hummingbirds on fallopian leashes. #<\/a><\/li>\n
fluctuating number people for dinner every night, four cooks in the kitchen. making paella. #<\/a><\/li>\n
also escalating affection for arnaut daniel #ehhh<\/a> #<\/a><\/li>\n
just drank wine that was bottled in 1993. happy birthday, @danaROrana<\/a> & @MultWashington<\/a> #<\/a><\/li>\n
@heatheralbano<\/a> great! diving is the most fun. you, @NicholasStenner<\/a>, and I should go sometime. in reply to heatheralbano<\/a> #<\/a><\/li>\n
@heatheralbano<\/a> i'm in alghero, sardinia, living at a dive center, actually. pretty great, but the diving part is about to end for the winter in reply to heatheralbano<\/a> #<\/a><\/li>\n
worst dj who lives across the bay. playing reggae. your reckoning hour will be swift and irreversible and no one will speak in your defense. #<\/a><\/li>\n
i have been semi wakeful for two hours. if i read poetry in my current weakened state, will it change the physical structure of my brain or. #<\/a><\/li>\n
good morning. http:\/\/t.co\/udhnOgnv<\/a> #<\/a><\/li>\n
every time somebody mentions a "glowing bride" i think first of pachelbel's canon played by an orchestra pit of geiger counters… #<\/a><\/li>\n
just met a prince of andorra & his family. #<\/a><\/li>\n
spent all afternoon on a 26m yacht in a sheltered bay. #<\/a><\/li>\n
@epiclifery<\/a> get the chance. apparently it's great, and the skiing is wonderful. in reply to epiclifery<\/a> #<\/a><\/li>\n
@danaROrana<\/a> nah, apparently he's just really rich. skype soon. in reply to danaROrana<\/a> #<\/a><\/li>\n
poems all at the same time #<\/a><\/li>\n
reading six anthologies at a time: the best way to blend all the poems in your mind, the worst way to know where you found anything you like #<\/a><\/li>\n
@taylor_audrey<\/a> kayaks also. and i bought some brandy. in reply to taylor_audrey<\/a> #<\/a><\/li>\n
singing florence & the machine to the 4 year old guy here, except i change the lyrics to be hand-washing themed. http:\/\/t.co\/GMKrzilN<\/a> #<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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