December 2010
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2010: Everything That Falls Down
2010 was difficult and amazing. I didn’t even pretend to myself that I was going to list my top anythings of the year, this year. I could have written lists of highlights 1 and disappointments 2, or told you how many nice things I bought from Apple 3. But it wouldn’t have been interesting to write, and that means it wouldn’t have been interesting to read either. Instead,...
Dec 30th
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note to self:
do not try to catch up on over a week’s worth of Tumblr all in one go. Even Instapaper will not save you. You will start to skim over things you actually care about and stress out about whether Tumblr will go down or some other weird computer thing will happen and make you lose your place. And you’ll start talking to yourself on the internet.
Dec 30th
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andrewtsks: I think there’s a certain level at which people turn off their critical faculties and just uncritically suck down anything that is presented in a certain manner as if it is automatically pure and perfect, and then assume that anything outside of that sort of presentation is impure. And I’m just trying to say—shit ain’t that black and white. We’re all...
Dec 30th
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Dec 30th
Dec 22nd
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“One day Facebook will have three lines of text and nothing more, and I will no...”
– me, May 2008, utterly and completely wrong
Dec 21st
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“We are monkeys with money and guns.”
– Tom Waits
Dec 20th
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real men don't eat vegan quiche
I’ve been “misgendered” quite a lot this week,1 in a variety of contexts. And I feel like I can’t really remark on it, either at the time or afterward. Even online, because even online people have their ideas about who they think I am. Reacting to someone’s assumptions usually means committing to whichever side of the gender line they don’t think I’m on,...
Dec 19th
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Dec 14th
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five things without which you should probably not...
a bookmark a second bookmark ready access to the internet (or just a very large dictionary) a deep and abiding love for the English language some spare time
Dec 13th
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Dec 13th
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Dec 11th
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Dec 9th
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WatchWatch
So … I just downloaded this video. So that I can watch it when there’s an internet outage, I guess? AAAAAAA SO EXCITED SO EXCITED AAAAAAAAAAAAA If you need me, I’ll just be quietly and unproductively vibrating in anticipation until the album comes out.
Dec 8th
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Dec 8th
“Almost every day is either more or less unbearable than the day before it. ...”
– Found this in my pile of miscellaneous notes, sans attribution.
Dec 6th
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Dec 6th
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Dec 4th
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Dec 3rd
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five achievements for today:
bought groceries despite sweltering heat and sickening exhaustion made delicious cake made another instalment of my travel photo blog thing made some headway on the next Flight 717 post, finally replied to more than zero emails
Dec 3rd
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Dec 3rd
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Dec 3rd
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Dec 3rd
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“[…] through all the whooping, romantic paranoia, through all the...”
– Matthew Fiander
Dec 2nd
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Dec 2nd
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Dec 2nd
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“I am the most near-sighted songwriter of all time. It took a long time―a very...”
– John Darnielle
Dec 2nd
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Dec 1st
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November 2010
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Nov 30th
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