November 2010
16 posts
Discovery of the Week
Picture Kirsten Dunst. If you can’t remember what she looks like, google her.
Picture her face and her hair and her mannerisms.
Now take that and try to imagine what she would look like if she were a zombie. Really smokey eyes, a sort of vacant expression. The works.
Imagine that. Try really hard. It’s quite entertaining. I know this because I’ve seen it.
Because...
Where Do You Go?
You said you missed me, you
asked me where I’ve been, you
looked at me queer when I said “I’m right here” ‘cause apparently
sitting here is different than really being here.
But if I’m not exactly where I appear, then
where am I? Where do— I
go up in the clouds and underground
and watch the people go by.
I’ve been dreaming and breathing and...
Annnnnd they're back
The words are back. Get ready
“People are just people, they shouldn’t make you nervous.”
– Regina Spektor
Book Three of the Writer's Block Saga
Take it, go ahead. Take my voice, take my articulation, take the sentences right out of my mouth and feed them to the charismatic conversationalists of my generation. Take it all, I don’t care.
But please, leave the words.
I can’t, I couldn’t,
I need them.
I need them to tell you about the boy with eyes the color of good intentions and how I stopped going to...
The Mute Who Can Talk
I stumble over words and trip on punctuation.
I fall over sentences, knock into nouns and then scrape my knees on shards of grammar.
Way back when, I learned to speak just like you did; started small and worked my way up. But sometimes my tongue ties itself in butterfly knots and all that can get out is
well I don’t know, it’s like…I don’t know. Um…It’s...
A Blast From the Past Doppelgänger
I choked on my own shock when he walked by.
This sounds like the part of the movie where they describe the girl’s newfound fascination with some boy she glimpsed across the quad. Or maybe it’s where they reveal a dark secret from a hidden past. Or, OR it could be something more scandalous; some sort of love triangle or misbegotten one-night-stand.
But actually, he just looked a...
“Whatever you are, be a good one.”
– Abraham Lincoln.
Goodnight!
Ladies and gentlemen, prepare yourselves for the match of the century. It is going to be one hell of a night as we watch to see just which of these two seemingly infallible opponents surrenders the crown of victory.
Keep close watch for rarely are we treated with a show of such magnitude. Night after night these two go at it and there appears to be no clear champion. They butt heads and lock...
Turns out, she was okay.
“Hello, hi, is this is emergency room? I’m looking for…yes, yes, I can spell it. It’s ‘c’ as in corn, ‘o’ as in orange..No one? Thank you. Thank you so much.”
“Hi, I’m looking to see if a girl was arrested…yes, yes within just the past hour or so..could you please call this number if she turns up?”
“I’m so...
“We need to make books cool again. If you go home with somebody and they don’t...”
– John Waters
It's All True
This is how it actually happened
Headphones in, walking, walking, walking, pause. Wait for the stop light. Cross. Walking, walking, smile in, walking, smile out, back at the dorm.
This is how I saw it
We Are Golden starts and the andy boots fall into step with the beat. Heart beats faster, mouth twitches at the corners, eyes see clearer. Walking, walking, walking but it’s almost like...
“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that’s all.”
– Oscar Wilde
What are you seeing in me?
Vaguely unsure of the morality behind putting his name on the internet. A sign of respect? Maybe. It rhymes with “safe” although I’m going to be honest and say that I don’t know if that’s the first thing I felt upon making eye contact.
New therapist. His eyes were brighter than Jon’s. Brighter and more piercing, more thoughtful. No. Not thoughtful....
"Sometimes you get the bear but sometimes...the...
Ms. Salmeri taught “Career Development” in high school. She was a large woman with beady eyes, thinning hair and puffy cheeks. She used to drink diet coke and then stand by the window when she had to fart thinking no one noticed.
We always noticed.
Ms. Salmeri yelled incessantly and believed her subject (which was -in actuality- 43 minutes of re-learning the correct usage of a...
“Inside of me there are two dogs. One is mean and evil and the other is good and...”
– Tatanka Iyotaka (Sitting Bull) 