July 2011
3 posts
WatchOh My Effing Gosh!
May 2011
3 posts
Birthday Haiku for 24
I almost forgot
Twenty-four is not a lot
Wishing you the best
March 2011
1 post
July 2010
4 posts
June 2010
1 post
lintintheinkwell-deactivated201 asked: where is the infamous Brittany Owens. why haven't i seen her yet when i've been in san francisco for three weeks.
December 2009
1 post
1 tag
November 2009
3 posts
‘World=USA’
The idea that ‘Black’=’US-Black’ has the same excruciatingly gormless sort of arrogance found in other instances of word magic in post war American English. I am referring here to words like ‘world’, as in ‘The World Trade Center’, ‘Miss World’ or ‘The World Bank’ — none of these three...
October 2009
1 post
September 2009
2 posts
Brittany's Made-Up Dictionary
character whore: [kar-ik-ter] [hoor] - noun one who personifies features and traits taken from a book, novella, play, film, or other work of art, and acts in a manner derivative of their current obsession. While reading Zadie Smith’s White Teeth, Britt talked in an annoying British accent. What a character whore!
August 2009
9 posts
Watchtheministryoftruth:
Waking Life
U.S. Americans - Peter Loyarpanz
jo, jo, jo!!!!
I am going to NYC for the holidays - technically after the holidays - but not before I have genki!!!!
Contraband by one Peter Loyarpánz
“I’m not paying for the chips and salsa. This is Fred’s, it’s...”
– Oliver SantaCruz defiantly declares, after drinking a bottle of syrah at the Wine Cabana in Old Town, San Diego and having tequila and watermelon margarita shots at Fred’s Mexican Cafe.
July 2009
11 posts
I need to be invited to the White House for a...
What kind of beer do you think Skip Gates, Obama and that racist cop are drinking?
My Dave Eggers encounter... →
As promised, a recount of me meeting Dave Eggers. Peter already did a write-up on our little meet-up and so I will just link to it. I am way to lazy right now to write about it and to think Mr. Eggers gave me a writing assignment. Hmm…
So looking forward to this - More Intelligent Life →
OMG!!!
I MET DAVE EGGERS TODAY AND THE BEST THING IN THE WORLD HAPPENED TO ME!
Look for an update on this later this evening!
Say NO to Newsom - NYT Magazine →
“Well, that makes sense,” Jay Leno said recently. “I mean, the state’s broke. If we’re going to start selling stuff, who better to be governor than the head of eBay?”
referring to Republican candidate, Meg Whitman, the former eBay C.E.O.
June 2009
10 posts
“Nothing prevents me from being a writer except laziness. A good writer.”
– Susan Sontag in Reborn.
The Ultimate Longhorn Reading List: UT teachers...
I have read some of these books but not most.
shaneguiter:
janewilkins:
In 1987, UT’s College of Liberal Arts released a document titled “The Texas List of Unrequired Reading,” a four-year reading plan of books in philosophy, science, literature, and history. The 48 books and 48 on an alternate reading list ranged from the Bible to The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. At the time, Dean Robert...
IT Civil Disobedience - S.F. Gate →
But for the past few days, Heap, an IT director in San Francisco, has been on the virtual front lines of the crisis in Iran, helping people there protest the presidential election, which opponents of the incumbent regime maintain was fraudulent.
Enough is Enough - L.A. Times →
And let’s stop worrying so much about doing anything that might tarnish the brand. See, this is why I don’t want my president to be a TV star: Because TV stars are too worried about being popular — and too concerned with getting renewed. You can relax about that, Mr. President, knowing that there’s a large, rich organization doing everything it possibly can to ensure that...
History Is A Weapon →
effin’ awesome!
pieto:
(via redguard)
Zadie Smith on Wood - The Guardian U.K. →
But to my surprise I find I do want to say a few quick things about that article, and about book stuff in general. The first is this: any collective term for a supposed literary movement is always too large a net, catching significant dolphins among so much cannable tuna. You cannot place first-time novelists with literary giants, New York hipsters with Kilburn losers, and some of the writers who...
