June 2012
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“I’m in love with the world through the eyes of a squirrel.”
– Not Elliott Smith
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I'm On a Bus With Internet, So I'm Going To List...
(I apologize for awkward spacing/typos/grammatical errors because this bus is bumpy and I’m sleepy)
1.Get Lonely- The Mountain Goats.
This was one of the most important albums for me last summer. John Darnielle understands what it’s like to truly be lonely. His songs have a painful awareness of the failings of the human body, but also its transcendence. A line from Isaiah 45:23 from...
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New York has been a sweaty (I guess I brought a heat wave with me) and wonderful visit so far! My friend Veronica lives in Manhattan, and the constant feeling of being part of a large mass, even while indoors, is overwhelming in the best way! She lives right by Columbus Circle, and there is this insistant awareness of, well, life.
I also got to visit my friend in Brooklyn today (yo Carolyn!), and...
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Anthropology of Webcomics on Twitter (Not Really).
I follow a lot of webcomic artists and Something Awful types on Twitter (I know, talking about Twitter on Tumblr, leave me alone) , and something that I’ve noticed is that instead of telling one-liners, they have a more fluid way of imparting humor (that sounds awkward, but they aren’t really telling jokes, and I don’t know what else to call it) where they set up bizarre almost...
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Giant Cockroach.
When I was really little, my family lived in Florida, where cockroaches were impossible to escape. When I think of my former home, I do not think of oranges— I think of snakes, terrifying bugs, lizards, and alligators. I remember going to the mall with my family, where an exterminator company was putting on an exhibition (which in itself is bizarre, but wait, there’s more!), and had a...
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My older brother does screen-printing stuff, and a little while back, he made Night of the Living Dead shirts for my brothers and me. People don’t seem to like this shirt. One time, I heard a little boy say, “Her shirt is scary.” Another time, I heard a man say, “Oh that’s attractive” in a tone of voice that led me to believe he meant the opposite. A friend...
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