January 2010
33 posts
“This one time I got a toy unicorn in this bag of candy. I carried it around in...”
– Nate is the best.
My Memory Bank (via natecartoons)
Writing
To encourage myself to write more, I’ve chosen to adopt the mantra that just by writing words, I’m getting better as a writer. It follows along the path of 10,000 hours in Outliers. But no matter how awful something is, no matter how vague of an idea I have, no matter if what I’m writing will never see the light of day, just writing anything is making me better.
REM-Cuyahoga live
The newest REM live album is...
it would be weird if...#1
It would be weird if you had to babysit your future children for a weekend. Like, you in the future was having a dinner party to raise funds for a local governor, and got so carried away with the details like parking and guest lists you forgot to hire a babysitter, so you sent them back in time to have your younger self take care of them.
jon Brion-“Meaningless”
Jon...
Pavement-Major Leagues
This song is so good when...
Up all night
Does anyone else have nights where they can’t sleep because their brains have a playlist called Things That Suck: Worries and Irrational Fears playing on repeat?
I’m having one of those right now. They seem to come once every two months. I had one bad one over the summer, and one somewhere else in the fall, around October or November. Maybe they’re just seasonal. Once a season...
go to this now →
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Things I Should Do
-Listen to the National
-Drink a bottle of Whiskey
-(something involving an old flame)
-Interview a mermaid
These feel unified, right?
my optometrist
I still can’t over how great my apointment with my optometrist was yesterday.
He is a great guy.
WatchInteresting.
frankhejl:
Thurston interviews Beck on 120 Minutes (also with Mike D from Beastie Boys)!
Holy hell! I remember watching this on TV! One of my favorite 120 Minutes moments ever! Man, that takes me back to staying up late, preparing a blank VHS and having my hand on the pause button to cut commercials and trying to get the timing just right for when it came back from commercial...
JZT's Dream Theatre #2
I am Maria Bamford working as a police officer who investigates child rapes and murders with my parents. Not sure if they are also officers, or if I just let them come along because they’re lonely. Also, they weren’t ‘my’ parents, but Maria Bamford’s parents.
In this particular day on the job, me/Maria is investigating a child rapist whose ‘thing’ is he...
“Well, you are about to start the greatest improvisation of all. With no script....”
– Stephen Colbert (via shortmikeshort) (via bridgecomedy) (via chrysilla) (via blogalicious)
Question
is it considered weird to write fan fiction about yourself? Like, stories set in an alternate univese where things you wanted to happen happen?