January 2010
117 posts
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terror of 'writer's block'?
There is something here, waiting for me. It waits in the darkness, like some tired-out cliché that hits in the middle of a really good sentence. It’s stretching out invisible fingers, little ectoplasmic tentacles that wrap ‘round my brain and strangle meaning, sense, poesy; all the best things I have. what is it? what is it?
Is this the dreaded ‘writer’s block’?
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“A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.”
– ~ Henry David Thoreau
“Love being so tired that everything shivers into tiny bits, meaning and my own...”
– moi
“Twitter may be, in many ways, absurd; but it may also hasten the inner ear to...”
– What We Can Learn From Cicero - Forbes.com
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the Lady Gaga question
Lady Gaga, since I realised she existed (on New Years Eve) has been a conundrum for me. She seems - now maybe I’ve going out on a limb here, maybe I’m looking for Interesting because I desperately want to see it - actually interesting. Actually creative. Disgust with modern popjunk notwithstanding, her outfits are cool and it’s nice to see fetish fashion in the limelight, even...
“Each time we don’t say what we want to say we’re dying. Make a list of how many...”
– Yoko Ono (via crashinglybeautiful) (via samsaramotel)
“I think our Representatives should wear their corporate logos on their suits...”
– The Supreme Court’s Citizen United Decision Is Terrifying
“There are roughly three New Yorks. There is, first, the New York of the man or...”
– Here is New York, E. B. White, 1949
RT @richardpeacock: Twitter is up and down like a tired euphemism // #quote #ftw
Plan for today: get chill, make some art. Write some microfic. #amwriting
RT @Thessalian Harrys Dresden and Potter bitching about the difficulty of saving the world over firewhiskey - someone needs to write that.
Just dropped @neverrenember at O’Hare. We got lost and are somewhere just outside Kenosha.
Being up all night RULES you guys!!!!!! I totally can’t feel my hands.
I have looking for a way to archive my scenes for over a year. I think I have just found a better-than-perfect solution. cry of happee!
I just discovered Evernote. Oh my holy pin the tail on the grilled cheese sandwich. It is so freaking rad.
Tea on the mornings is lovely thing!
Watching Picnic at Hanging Rock. Surprisinglu suspensful!
#healthyday woke @ 9pm. Not made to rise with the dawn, perhaps. Still, aftrsundown which meeeeans…computadora!!!
#healthyday aaand ended the say with TREAT of christmastoast wirh nutella. Delicious!!!
#healthyday ate apple, orgainised homecraft area & unraveled mor: now sewing up jean jacket, then I may be time for sleeps!
#healthyday napping 2-3 hours past when I’d planned…small hiccup. Have been doing well otherwise!
Note to self: using regular needle on jean jacket is a good way to break your needle. #sewfail
#healthyday whoo! Took a long time to unravel that sweater. Have not snacked at all since I broke my fast around…seven-ish? go me!
#healthyday now is time to reward myself with delicious apple!
#healthyday rules: no computer until after dark. WHAT? I knooow. See, damn thing glues ass->chair; my ass is too big for that.
#healthyday you may say Wait! Wot about MUSIC!?! I say unto you: this is why my oldskool ‘hunk o’ yellow plastic’ walkman is rad. Party on.
#healthyday next? Pirated aerobics workout: multireps o’warmup. Babysteps right? Then dash upstairs for blast of fresh, cold winter air.
#healthyday started with oatmeal and fruit + dash o’caffiene, @chuckwendig reccommended. First time eating oatmeal. Tea+weebit stevia=love.
Today is my experiment in one perfectly #healthyday. Those inclined can track efforts of one first-gen rit kid in her babysteps to reform.
Falling toward bed. All inclined, send thoughts flying to @chuckwendig, lucky bastid. He’s doing #sundance workshop! Raise netipot to him!
One thing more: fall asleep to David Bowie b-tracks for strange and beautiful dreams.
“Show me a hero and I’ll write you a tragedy.”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald”
Dog Gonnit! I am going to make some christmas toast! (Da&I invented it)
I just sketched out the first-draft of pretty much the best pair of paintings ever. #hyperbole Can’t wait to do the actual painting bit.
Protesting government spending is a good thing, a lovely thing. Why weren’t people doing it oh, sixyears ago? :(
“It’s healthy to like cake. Cake is *good*. …If you find yourself...”
– Me
“I’ll tell you what really doesn’t speak well of our Health Care...”
– Jon Steward | The Daily Show
I shall devise the greatest dessert ever. It will be huge. It will be decadent. It will be NUTELLA THE HUN.
“We feel our idols owe us something. We’re willing to worship and give our...”
– Il Marionette Rotto, after listening to Part 1 of It’s No Game by David Bowie.
I’m listening to Bowie’s ‘Candidate’ over and over and over and over. Oh my god, this song is so good. SO GOOD.
I’m working on a painting based directly on a single sentence of @chuckwendig’s blog. I oneder if I owe him royalties?
Whoa. WHOA. Bowie’s ‘Bring Me the Disco King’ is also titled ‘Song for Bob Dylan’? HOW DID I NEVER KNOW THIS.
Up all night arting; bed claims me up at 2pm. I yawn…and the telephone rings.
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