March 2010
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Where the streets are not marked
“You will come to a place where the streets are not marked. / Some windows are lighted. But mostly they’re darked. / A place you could sprain both your elbow and chin! / Do you dare to stay out? Do you dare to go in? / How much can you lose? How much can you win?” – Oh, the Places You’ll Go!
In my dreams, I am lost. For months, there have been three different covers, but they are all the...
David Rakoff's Wikipedia page is the creepiest of... →
katiecoyle:
Check out the eight individual sections listed under “Tone of Work.”
I do so love “Childhood Interests”
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But the things that last forever
Writing an essay about our childhood Nickelodeon shows sent me to YouTube to watch and rewatch my favorite opening sequences. Join me in the fun:
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Is it May yet?
Whew. It’s crunch time over here at One Size Fits All. We’re only a scant five weeks away from the end of the semester (we get out ridiculously early), a horrendous realization on my part this past week. I promised a certain thesis director a complete first draft of my thesis at the end of the semester, and, as of my horrendous realization, only had one hundred of the two hundred required...
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One Episode that Proves the Brilliance of The...
We haven’t seen bad-boy Jess (Milo Ventimiglia) since season four, episode twenty-one, “Last Week Fights, This Week Tights.” He asked Rory (Alexis Bledel) to run away with him, though she is a freshman at Yale, and he has a penchant for running away without her, bailing on her high school graduation the season before. They had been dating for quite some time, especially by high school dating...
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“Honey, you once told me that you loved Saved by the Bell. What could be more...”
– The Gilmore Girls
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WatchThis makes me cry. I don’t want this to suck.
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Recently overheard
Woman in the doctor's office: What's with little girls and unicorns?...Purple and unicorns.
Woman at the gas station: Somebody's been smokin' rocks up in this piece.
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Happy birthday, Flannery O'Connor
May wherever you are be filled with peacocks and people stumbling around grace.
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“the river which says on, on, on; even though, it admits, there may be no goal...”
– Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway
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Maybe we didn't make the worst decision ever? →
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Nielsen ratings for the years of my life, collected by the fine folks at Wikipedia. It would be fitting that a) I, the news nerd, was born when 60 Minutes topped the airwaves; b) All of my formative family years involve The Cosby Show plus Roseanne right there at the end; and c) I totally missed the most popular years of ER as they aired, but love them in retrospect.
1982-1983 / 60 Minutes...
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“If you struggle with self-injury, you are not “a cutter”. You are a person. You...”
– Jamie Tworkowski (TWLOHA) (via alexazworld) (via fuckyeahloveisthemovement) (via fuckyeahtowriteloveonherarms) (via cavalierflair)
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“A classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules, or...”
– Edith Wharton (via deadwriters)
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“Erin and I have our first date tonight and it has to be perfect. Why? Because...”
– Andy, The Office (via sarakatherine)
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Awesome Infographic: Jessie Spano’s Caffeine... →
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A PERSONAL ESSAY BY A PERSONAL ESSAY. →
“Look, it wasn’t like this essay didn’t have potential. I think everyone in that room agreed he had a certain something. But talent takes time. Inoperable tumors just don’t sprout up overnight, and psychotic breaks are nothing if not slow to boil.”
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Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible...
Here’s what you need to know about how I walked into Alice in Wonderland last Sunday:
I have a general admiration for the original story as well as the Disney cartoon.
I have absolutely no feelings about Tim Burton.
I liked Johnny Depp in Chocolat and Finding Neverland. I really, really, did not like Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (I find the simplicity of Gene Wilder’s Wonka far creeper...
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Inadvertent new experiences
Saturday night, I went with some friends to see Dar. Though my concerts have become fewer and further between (which makes me inconsolably upset), a Spring Break night at a folk concert has become somewhat of a tradition.
You know what’s not a tradition?
The South Side on a Saturday night.
Recall my experiences on that end of town: Sunday afternoon brunch. One New Year’s Eve outing that ended...
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“It is necessary to write, if the days are not to slip emptily by. How else,...”
– Vita Sackville-West
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Welcome to the world, baby girl!
Travel back in time with me if you will – we’ll stop somewhere in the fall of 1995.
I’m in fourth period, seventh grade American history. There is a boy in the class who does not seem to ever do work. He plays his Game Boy or fiddles around on the Mac in the back of the classroom. This, apparently, is not a problem. When I don’t do my work – in class or otherwise – I have to watch as my...
In the beginning
I got enticed by the fun my writerly friends were having.
