January 2012
1 post
The Bluebird - Charles Bukowski
there’s a bluebird in my heart that wants to get out but I’m too tough for him, I say, stay in there, I’m not going to let anybody see you.
there’s a bluebird in my heart that wants to get out but I pour whiskey on him and inhale cigarette smoke and the whores and the bartenders and the grocery clerks never know that he’s in there. there’s a bluebird in my...
July 2011
1 post
June 2011
1 post
May 2011
5 posts
40 Literary Terms Every Bookworm Should Know →
“You can’t wait for perfection. You can always wait for the perfect moment, the...”
– Justin Gignac, artist
[via brainpickings]
February 2011
1 post
January 2011
4 posts
Deciding whether or not you should work for free? →
“At one point Kerouac said, quoting a Frank Sinatra song, “unrequited...”
– Jonathan Goldstein of CBC’s Wiretap (2003)
December 2010
2 posts
November 2010
2 posts
“And so, belatedly, haltingly, and almost accidentally, it began: the education...”
– Lost in the Meritocracy - Magazine - The Atlantic (via Instapaper)
October 2010
2 posts
September 2010
4 posts
August 2010
11 posts
Valedictorian speaks out against schooling in... →
We are more than robotic bookshelves, conditioned to blurt out facts we were taught in school […] aren’t we all deserving of something better, of using our minds for innovation, rather than memorization, for creativity, rather than futile activity, for rumination rather than stagnation?
We are not here to get a degree, to then get a job, so we can consume industry-approved...
“Journalism even at its best is already a fairly caustic and draining experience....”
– Richard Morgan, freelance journalist
(via Seven Years as a Freelance Writer or How to Make Vitamin Soup)
July 2010
7 posts
Getting Skinny Is The Second Act Of A Fat Girl's... →
losingweightinthecity:
A poignant piece on Jezebel about the rollercoaster that is weight loss and grappling with body image issues.
Hunting for an apartment? This link is for you. →
Now I’m not sure who decided to take the classified genius of craigslist and marry it off to GoogleMaps — but they should be dubbed a national hero.
Seriously.
Looking at these listings is a lot more fun than squinting at ordinary rental ads.
June 2010
15 posts
“I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where.
I love you...”
– Pablo Neruda
(Part of Sonnet XVII)
Excerpt from "Women, Food and God"
Only kindness makes sense. Anything else is excruciating. You are not a mistake. You are not a problem to be solved. The Sufi poet Rumi, writing about birds learning to fly, wrote: “How do they learn it? They fall, and falling, they’re given wings.”
[Read the first chapter here.]
Portrait of a perfect moment in time:
One minute ago, I finished a tediously long essay and sent it off to print. As soon as I did that, the Louis Armstrong classic “What a Wonderful World” came up on my iTunes party shuffle.
Finished essay with time to spare? What a wonderful world, indeed.
