February 2010
Sometimes I worry that my life lacks drama. I suppose this is one of the things you come to terms with as you age, but I’ve noticed a precipitous drop in the suspenseful storytelling between me and my friends, our summaries of our weekends. Instead of being dramatic, gossipy, part of an intricately woven web of stormy relationships and ill-fated adventures, most of the information...
January 2010
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JUDGMENT DAY
The thing about airing your obnoxious opinions prolifically on Yelp is that I can see into your soul and decide that you’re a jackass, and I don’t even know you.
van morrison — wonderful remark
every time...
Times When Smokers Could Really Use A Cigarette...
During childbirth
Stuck underwater while SCUBA diving
In the ICU
Mouth taped shut by kidnappers
Lips removed by lip thieves
Confined to a bubble without a lighter
Cursed by gypsies, everything you touch becomes too damp to ignite
Every single thing John Locke said during season five of Lost is available to think about here. I have to admit that maybe the most disappointed I’ve ever been in my long love affair with television was when I grew weary of Lost.
I was a little bit late to hop on the Lost bandwagon, which was good, because this show is better watched, I think, via DVD. Lost is best enjoyed in big chunks,...
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Fake Dinner Party Conversations
Van Morrison: …and then I drank the cool, cool water from the spring!
Joni Mitchell: [fondly] Mmhmm.
Tess: Who was it you said you were with at the time, Van?
Van Morrison: Oh, just my gypsy queen.
Joni Mitchell: Doesn’t he have the best stories? I love his stories.
Van Morrison: And then I took myself down the Celtic way, down by Longbarth road, up in the Kalleyvale...
By the way, you guys, thanks for recommending me for the Creative Writing section in the directory! It’s a great feature, because it gave me this.
Tumblr Storytelling Series: FOUR DAYS!
natashavc:
First thing: Save the date right now, lovelies. FEBRUARY 23RD 9:30pm at the M-Bar in Hollywood. $10 bucks at the bar.
We got a venue and set list of super talented (and some even goodlooking) writers/performers that you probs already follow on tumblr, to regale you with short (6 min), true stories, WITH NO NOTES! The stories will be funny, surprising, rawwwww variations on a theme.
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Sometimes the Subjects on Intervention
Are just stupid assholes and it’s hard to care about or feel sorry for them at all.
I’m like, “Robby, you won a Grammy. Shut up.”
prince — i can’t make you love me...
Scott Meets Family Circus -- A Comic Gets Its... →
(via wasted-efforts)
Important.
pixies — here comes your man
Someone asked: Stop me if you’ve heard this one before but did you appear in an episode of Hoarders: Buried Alive (an obvious A&E knock-off) on TLC? And, like, is your mother a hoarder? Because “Lori”, the daughter of one of the featured hoarders on last night’s episode, looks exactly like you, albeit with shorter hair.
No.
You guys, if I were on a show...
rod stewart — every picture tells a story
New Spoon songs on KCRW.
the ting tings — that’s not my name
I am writing this from inside a wind tunnel. It’s right my kitchen door. I’m sitting on these little, cold stairs and every now and then my laptop is almost swept off my lap. On the brick walkway around my place, there’s 2” of pine needles. When it gets like this — a rare glimpse of actual weather (in LA there is none; have you heard?) — I want to be outside in...
JHE's Guide to Getting a Book Deal
thesophie:
jeanhannah:
When the marvelous Rachel Hills asked me to contribute to her post about how to get a book deal, I got a bit overexcited and basically wrote an essay. So it wouldn’t go to waste, I decided to post it here.
Disclaimers: I used to work in publishing, and I keep up to date on the industry for my blogging purposes (and personal interest), and I do a little critiquing of new...
Ideas
a really good Chinese restaurant in Silver Lake that delivers and goes easy-ish on the MSG, and has great wonton soup and costs one dollar
trees that deposit water back into the soil
bees that can do math
plastic surgery that gives you high heels made of flesh
a well-paying job that requires a person to read books without necessarily forming long opinions on them
a video camera that you can...