GPOY holed up in the library edition with some free tea I received
It’s the little things
January 26th, 2012
January 23rd, 2012
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January 20th, 2012
“I fear that there’s not enough danger in everyday life. I’m not talking about gang-related violence and how the ease of buying handguns in America causes everyday danger. I’m talking about public restrooms. In the old days, there weren’t fast-food restaurants at every intersection on the highway. In the old days, if a traveler had to use the restroom, he had to go into grimy, strange Texaco and Gulf stations or roadside rest areas. There was always graffiti in these places that read something like “Want to have a good time? Meet me here at 4:30.” Then the traveler would look at his watch and see that it was 4:28 or thereabouts.
Such anxiety and tension causes good fiction. It’s a different kind of tension than when the automatic hand dryer is broken. So my advice for beginning writers is to pee in dangerous places, always. Then give your characters that feeling of eminent danger.”
-George Singleton, “Pep Talks, Warnings & Screeds”
January 17th, 2012
So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned to a life of security, conformity, and conservatism, all of which may appear to give one peace of mind, but in reality nothing is more dangerous to the adventurous spirit within a man than a secure future. The very basic core of a man’s living spirit is his passion for adventure. The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun.
Christopher McCandless (via around-every-corner)
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January 16th, 2012
The Dave Eggers shower curtain.
“The Thing, the quarterly that issues objects that are art-ish or connected to literature, will publish a short story shower curtain by Dave Eggers later this month. It is The Thing Issue 16. Previous issues of The Thing include a cutting board seared with a short story by Starlee Kine, a Miranda July window shade, and a pair of glasses to go with Jonathan Lethem’s novel “Chronic City” — all of which have sold out.
Eggers’ books include “Zeitoun,” “What is the What,” and “A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius.” He is the founding editor of the website, magazine and publishing house McSweeney’s, also known for creating interesting editions for print. And he founded the nonprofit 826, which has literacy centers in eight cities, including Los Angeles.
The shower curtain is a short story monologue by the shower curtain to Eggers, or to the bather, or, because it faces out, to someone brushing her teeth. It costs $65.”More in the LA Times here.
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January 11th, 2012
So, fun story.
After Katrina I traveled to Mississippi to do relief work. It was the most meaningful 10 days of my life, and I will talk the ear off of anyone who asks me about it.
We ate food served in giant buffet lines in the parking lot of what once was an airport, slept on the floor of a gym that had no power and we showered in science room sinks and in the back of an 18 wheeler rigged up to be a mobile disaster relief unit. Every morning, we’d get up and pile all of us into a van in all sorts of uncomfortable and illegal ways and drive to work on the house of a woman we’d all come to think of as the southern grandmother we’d never had.
Our second night in town, we had driven through Gulfport and walked amongst the ruins of homes. I prayed at the remains of an alter in a church that had no roof or walls. We were all feeling this mutual sadness and emptiness that no one could explain, so we said nothing and opted for tacos in the only restaurant still standing for miles and miles.
There were maybe 15 of us, all dirty and sad and eating tacos and definitely in college and definitely not belonging among people who were essentially refugees in their own town. A man approached us and we began chatting about what we were doing and how we were feeling. And then left without a word. No one even gave it a second thought.
When we left the restaurant, we’d discovered our tab had been paid with a note from that man that just said “The people of Mississippi thank you.”
January 6th, 2012
It’s official – this fella & I are getting married Sunday, May 20 on a cute little farm in Leicester.
To say I’m excited would be an understatement.
December 27th, 2011
I am off to Hilton Head tomorrow with someone who means the whole world to me
When we come back, it will be a new year.
December 16th, 2011
You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island of opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land; there is no other life but this.
Henry David Thoreau (via barefootuniverse)
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December 9th, 2011
![jamdizzle:
thedailywhat:
Single-Topic Tumblr of the Day: Comic Sans Project: Familiar logos of world-famous brands reimagined with Comic Sans.
Mission Statement:
We are the Comic Sans Defenders. We fear no fonts and we will make the whole world Comic Sans. Because Helvetica is sooo 2011.
[copyranter.]
hahahaha. amazing.](http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lvy5qsHkGO1qzpwi0o1_500.jpg)
Single-Topic Tumblr of the Day: Comic Sans Project: Familiar logos of world-famous brands reimagined with Comic Sans.
Mission Statement:
We are the Comic Sans Defenders. We fear no fonts and we will make the whole world Comic Sans. Because Helvetica is sooo 2011.
[copyranter.]
hahahaha. amazing.
December 8th, 2011
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