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[Nov. 19th, 2009|04:17 pm] |
Dude. Nate at our sister store Pendragon went on record in today's San Francisco Chronicle to imply that anyone who would read Sarah Palin's autobiography is an idiot.
Bay Area Not Maverick Enough to Read Palin Book
Folks from this classy message board are taking breaks from calling people in the Bay 'faggots' long enough to call Pendragon hundreds of times a day and harrass whoever answers the phone. Political! |
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[Nov. 19th, 2009|02:46 pm] |
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I want you to know that I just got a tiny little book in the mail that consists of one short story, titled The Third Elevator, by Aimee Bender. If you've read Aimee Bender before then you know that she is the number one best writer, so you'll be happy to hear that you can buy your own from The Madras Press's website for six dollars. I don't even need to read the story to suggest that you should buy it. I already can tell in advance. |
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[Nov. 17th, 2009|11:41 am] |
Oh hey let's see what happens to your day when the first thing you do is listen to the entire Misfits box set and write thousands of words about oppressed people struggling with their oppressions. |
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[Nov. 17th, 2009|11:05 am] |
I don't need a Bouncing Souls, Misfits, Bon Jovi or Bruce Springsteen tattoo, because I got a tattoo that means all of those things: the outline of New Jersey on my neck.
Y'know the gesture that I do sometimes where I cross my arms across my chest and then extend the pointer and pinky fingers, to signify that something is totally metal? Last night while I was talking to Ellie about how cool I was in high school, I did that, but instead of throwing the goat I made scare quotes with my fingers. You can use that too, if you want.
I haven't been able to think of big words lately- I've had to grasp for them. I think I am getting stupider. |
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[Nov. 16th, 2009|11:58 am] |
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Evan and Elenore have spent the last two days at the kitchen table, making up Marmaduke comics. The joke is that they're not funny. Whenever I try to help, I don't get the 'not-funny' part right, so I end up calling them nerds and stomp off. But you can hear them cracking each other up throughout the house, it's pretty nice.
I wrote a scene yesterdat for this novel I'm working on in which two people go to a bar they hate, fuck in the bathroom, go back to their table, and then one of them freaks out. She pushes the other one off her chair onto the ground, runs away and tries to hide under a bush, but the bush is too small and the girl she pushed over finds her immediately and laughs at her. It's like some Vonnegut shit or something, all insightful and funny but sad.
Actually, mostly just funny and sad, not that insightful.
I'M FUNNY TOO YOU FUCKS. |
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[Nov. 14th, 2009|11:48 am] |
Via bookslut, as always: Anything that doesn't take years of your life and drive you to suicide hardly seems worth doing: an interview with Cormac McCarthy.
"Wall Street Journal: Does this issue of length apply to books, too? Is a 1,000-page book somehow too much?
McCarthy: For modern readers, yeah. People apparently only read mystery stories of any length. With mysteries, the longer the better and people will read any damn thing. But the indulgent, 800-page books that were written a hundred years ago are just not going to be written anymore and people need to get used to that. If you think you're going to write something like "The Brothers Karamazov" or "Moby-Dick," go ahead. Nobody will read it. I don't care how good it is, or how smart the readers are. Their intentions, their brains are different." |
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[Nov. 13th, 2009|12:11 pm] |
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I was explaining to Alex about how she's not really very cool because she doesn't know what a facehugger is when she retorted by turning her vibrator on, cranking it all the way up, and sticking it in my eye. Bzzzz! |
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[Nov. 12th, 2009|08:32 pm] |
Oh hey, ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) cometdust just reminded me that I'm in a band. You can follow us on Facebook! I just remembered that we have a facebook thing. It's here. I will try to update it more for you. |
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[Nov. 12th, 2009|12:39 pm] |
Also, you know how I think that Die! Die! Die! is the best band around right now? Still? Well, last night I dreamed that the three guys in that band had gotten a tiny little brown puppy, and I was helping them to teach the puppy about appropriate chewing and inappropriate chewing. Like, fingers: no. Chewtoy: yes. Arm: No. Dinner: Yes. IT WAS AWESOME. |
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[Nov. 11th, 2009|08:19 pm] |
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I was like, "Jameson on the rocks, please," and the fey waiter was like, "You make me feel like a woman." (I actually thought he said "That stuff makes me feel warmer," but Alex was like, "Did you hear what he just said?" and explained.) It made me feel tough for a minute, but then I was like, "Wait, that was misogynistic!" |
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[Nov. 4th, 2009|08:57 pm] |
I've talked my share of shit about Weezer, in my day, and I'm sure I'll talk more. But you can't argue with a perfect album cover:
Also that new single rules. Combined with the fact that I think the new Converge album is kind of boring... there must be a conclusion to draw. *shrug* |
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