June 2011
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We were not having any fun, he had recently begun pointing out. I would take...
– Joan Didion, “The Year of Magical Thinking”
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We were fractious and overpaid. Our mornings lacked promise. At least those of...
– Joshua Ferris, Then We Came to the End
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I cannot count the times I have cursed our lack of urgency. If I ever love...
– Dave Eggers, What is the What
I was so convinced that this rare R-rated event comedy featuring women burping...
– Nikki Finke: ‘Bridesmaids’ Overperforms For $24.4M – Deadline.com (via apsies)
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Almost nothing important that ever happens to you happens because you engineer...
– David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest
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Facebook hired PR agency to plant bad stories... →
soupsoup:
“For the past few days, a mystery has been unfolding in Silicon Valley. Somebody, it seems, hired Burson-Marsteller, a top public-relations firm, to pitch anti-Google stories to newspapers, urging them to investigate claims that Google was invading people’s privacy. Burson even offered to help an influential blogger write a Google-bashing op-ed, which it promised it could place in...
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I’m your boyfriend! No backsies!
– Hal
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And my heart went ka-thunk, ka-thunk, ka-thunk.
The kitchen table collapsed, the room filled with water and I floated on my mattress down 81st street watching the children wave while the tide came in and my heart went ka-thunk, ka-thunk, ka-thunk.
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Email I just got
placesweusedtogo:
Could those responses then be put into a word cloud?
Here is your word cloud: shut up.
mknmv asked: Hi lady, are you still traveling? Just curious because of your GPOY. If not, welcome back a la ciudad. Nice threads there by the by.
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Deaf & Dumb bards with hand signing quick brilliant gestures
Then Journalists, editors’s secretaries, agents, portraitists & photo-
graphy aficionados, rock critics, cultured laborors, cultural
historians come to witness the historic funeral
Super-fans, poetasters, aging Beatnicks & Deadheads, autograph-
hunters, distinguished paparazzi, intelligent gawkers
Everyone knew they...