December 2011
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can't take me anywhere
a fancy whiskey bar opened downtown, which is great news, but I ordered an $8 glass of rum and spilled half of it on my lap while gesturing with the glass. Completely covered myself in really nice rum. Fuck.
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and I quote (sibling rivalry edition):
“I’m not judging you, I’m judging me.”
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oh that's right
there’s John Hawkes the novelist, and then there’s John Hawkes the actor from Eastbound & Down and Deadwood.
My last post appears to be the only one on tumblr in reference to the former (which I guess was actually the point of the quote).
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and I quote (literary):
“Who, however, reads John Hawkes? Only a few of us, I fear, tempted to pride by our fewness, and ready in that pride to believe that the recalcitrant rest of the world doesn’t deserve Hawkes, that we would do well to keep his pleasures our little secret.”
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whoo
one book shy of having read 70 books this year. I can definitely do that by Saturday (I only have 20 pages left of Nature).
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and I quote (in keeping with the music thing...
“I like all the bands, I’ve got a broad taste, you know, from the Britpop bands like UB40, Def Leppard, right back to classic rock, like, uh, Wings.”
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why
are there always a seemingly disproportionate number of attractive girls at the airport every time I travel? (or is this just an SFO/Logan/various-NYC-area-airports phenomena?)
[that would probably make a lot of sense, actually.]
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and I quote (more sperm jokes edition):
“As I sat there at my ease, cross-legged on the deck; after the bitter exertion at the windlass; under a blue tranquil sky; the ship under indolent sail, and gliding so serenely along; as I bathed my hands among those soft, gentle globules of infiltrated tissues, woven almost within the hour; as they richly broke to my fingers, and discharged all their opulence, like fully ripe grapes...
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and I quote (yeah, this is probably racist...
“Fellow-critters: I’se ordered here to say dat you must stop dat dam noise dare. you hear? stop dat dam smackin’ ob de lip! massa Stubb say dat you can fill your dam bellies up to de hatchings, but by Gor! you must stop dat dam racket! […] Well, den, Belubed fellow- critters: - […] Do you is all sharks, and by natur wery woracious, yet I zay to you,...
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and I quote (Jupiter and Beyond the Infinite...
“Pip’s horizon began to expand around him miserably. […] The sea had jeeringly kept his finite body up, but drowned the infinite of his soul. Not drowned entirely, though. Rather carried down alive to wondrous depths, where strange shapes of the unwarped primal world glided to and fro before his passive eyes; and the miser-merman, Wisdom, revealed his hoarded heaps; and among the...
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and I quote (powder room edition):
”Martha, won’t you show her where we keep the … euphemism?”
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and I quote (not what you think, but yeah, it...
“indeed everything was filled with sperm, except the captain’s pantaloons pockets, and those he reserved to thrust his hands into, in self-complacent testimony of his entire satisfaction.”
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and I quote (book-learnin' edition):
“Book! you lie there; the fact is, you books must know your places. You’ll do to give us the bare words and facts, but we come in to supply the thoughts.”
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American remake:
I think the American version of The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo should have been called The Girl With the Tribal Tattoo and it should have taken place in Wisconsin (or one of those other Swede-heavy states), so instead of everyone speaking with Swedish accents, they’d talk in Swedish-American accents (as in the ones from Fargo), and instead of there being Nazi-nazis, there would just be...
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whoops:
Went to GoodWill looking for some Stephen King and wound up with Hegel instead.
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and I quote (snarky edition):
“Shakespeare will never be made by the study of Shakespeare.”
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Penguins and answers
I love that tagging “Linux” in a post always guarantees responses to my problems. I should see what happens if I add that tag to posts that have nothing to do with open source software. I feel like that would be abusing some kind of sweet Linux code of honor thing, though.
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FUCK
apparently Netflix doesn’t support Linux (or Linux doesn’t support Netflix - how does that term work?) so I can’t watch the last episode of season 2 of Breaking Bad, which my dad watched tonight even though he’s never even watched that show (I had just made him watch the second half of the penultimate episode of the season), so while that’s probably a good thing that...
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and I quote (great idea):
“You brought a meth lab to the airport(?)”
procrastination post:
things I’ve done today instead of working on my papers:
- Breaking Bad - 3 hours
- sudoku - 2 hours
- walk - 1 hour
- dinner - 1 hour
- abortive tumblr posts - 1 hour
- facebook - 2 hours
OK. It’s 6:00. This paper is due in 23 hours. I’m totally fine, right?
existential crisis:
about whether to add a conclusion to my paper.
It currently ends on an incredibly dramatic note, and I really like it, but it lacks a proper conclusion that would reiterate how any of what I just said makes sense. But it would feel incredibly anticlimactic to go back and reiterate everything after the paragraph that currently ends it.
it would be like:...
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and I quote (Russki edition):
- “Oh yeah, I forgot, you know everything about acting because you played a bird in some stupid school play.” - “Yes Tracy, I was Trigorin in ‘The Seagull’ on the Wesleyan Arts Space main stage.”
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is today
going to be the day that I get (some of) my work done, or is it going to be the day that I belatedly get into Joni Mitchell and Stephen King?
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grocery list:
Alka-Seltzer
Ricolas (I was allowing indoor smoking last night)
tomato juice, celery, a lemon
bacon
a Bud Light Lime tallcan.
Is it a little too obvious what my day is going to consist of?
[Totally gonna finally watch The Exterminating Angel, since I finally finished The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie yesterday, after six years (I seriously borrowed or rented that movie at least twice in...
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wish
there was more ability to photographically memorize those moments of your life that are perfect.
Those moments are nice.
Especially when you’re not experiencing them.
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I suppose it's pretty telling
that Johnnie Walker red is actually much better out of the bottle than when you attempt to drink it out of a glass.
What a horrible scotch.
:(
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and I quote (Eastern Bloc edition):
- I’d better get back to the house and start packin’! Do you think I ought to take both my mink coats?
- Darling, no woman should have two mink coats until every woman in the world has one mink coat!
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- You’d better go home and pack too, darling.
- That would take me no time - just my chess board, my extra shirt, and two hundred books.
[From the film One, Two,...
Note to self
Don’t go on facebook on your iPad through the Internet browser if you’re checking out someones photos because it’s really easy to accidentally “like” things even if you’re actively uninterested in that person. Facebook sucks on ipads, just saying. This is the most first world of first world problems, and I shouldn’t complain since k found a great Cold War...
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to caipirinha, or not to caipirinha
that is the question.
On the one hand, I finished one of my papers (albeit the easiest one I have to do).
On the other hand, I already had two beers this afternoon, spent two hours at the movies (The Skin I Live In was awesome), I’ve got a really important paper due on Monday that I haven’t started, and if I’m not going to do work, I should at least be reading these Emerson...