January 2010
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helloimfromtheinternet:
Cantonese:...
“The patients kept demanding your attention, touching you,” recalls Brouard....”
– Haitian surgeon Dr. Philippe Brouard (via doctorswithoutborders)
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Today, as I was going through my iTunes, I realized that it’s been a long time since I’ve liked anyone enough to associate a song with him. I don’t know if this is a good thing or a bad thing. On the one hand, I can appreciate most of my songs for what they are: enjoyable pieces of music. Plus, there’s nothing I really have to skip over because it’s blacklisted. On...
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At one time, I thought I was romantic and full of positive energy, but in retrospect, I was just really naive.
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“Salinger was the first writer I read about whom I made up my own mind about how...”
– Malcolm Jones, with a really nice Salinger piece (via newsweek)
RIP. I should really get around to reading Catcher in the Rye. Since my high school was very conservative, this book wasn’t on the curriculum, and I never got around to reading it during college.
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“Drinking is an emotional thing. It joggles you out of everyday life, out of everything being the same. It yanks you out of your body and your mind and throws you against the wall. I have the feeling that drinking is a form of suicide where you’re allowed to return to life and begin all over the next day. It’s like killing yourself, and then you’re reborn. I guess...
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LIII
What is your substance, whereof are you made, That millions of strange shadows on you tend? Since every one hath, every one, one shade, And you but one, can every shadow lend. Describe Adonis, and the counterfeit Is poorly imitated after you; On Helen’s cheek all art of beauty set, And you in Grecian tires are painted new: Speak of the spring, and foison of the year, The one doth shadow of...
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“But you came all this way! Don’t be a ninny!” Her mother was bullying her again. It never gave her courage; in fact, it deprived her of courage. But it gave her a bitterness and impulsiveness, which could look like the same thing.
Birds of America, Lorrie Moore
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“To all the people watching, I can never thank you enough for your kindness to me...”
– Conan O’Brien, on his final night hosting The Tonight Show
TEAM COCO
:( his farewell advice was something young people (myself included) really needed to hear.
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things I have tried for the sake of pop culture...
I’m a big believer in being pop culture literate, even if it means trying out things that seem low or overhyped. Why judge something or write it off if you haven’t given it a shot? At the very least, you’ll be able to break the ice when talking to strangers.
- MTV’s Jersey Shore - Avatar - Glee - Gossip Girl - Grey’s Anatomy - Flavor of Love - High School Musical -...
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To Failure
You do not come dramatically, with dragons That rear up with my life between their paws And dash me butchered down beside the wagons, The horses panicking; nor as a clause Clearly set out to warn what can be lost, What out-of-pocket charges must be borne Expenses met; nor as a draughty ghost That’s seen, some mornings, running down a lawn. It is these sunless afternoons, I find Install you...
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Home is so Sad
Home is so sad. It stays as it was left, Shaped to the comfort of the last to go As if to win them back. Instead, bereft Of anyone to please, it withers so, Having no heart to put aside the theft And turn again to what it started as, A joyous shot at what things ought to be, Long fallen wide. You can see how it was: Look at the pictures and the cutlery. The music in the piano stool. That vase.
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“New York was a labyrinth of endless steps, and no matter how far he walked, it...”
– Paul Auster (City of Glass) (via inevitablefragments) (via randomnyc)
love this description of NYC! this is exactly how I feel when I’m wandering around the city by myself.
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Conan's Statement
lookatthisfrakkinggeekster:
steveagee:
People of Earth: In the last few days, I’ve been getting a lot of sympathy calls, and I want to start by making it clear that no one should waste a second feeling sorry for me. For 17 years, I’ve been getting paid to do what I love most and, in a world with real problems, I’ve been absurdly lucky. That said, I’ve been suddenly put in a very public...
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