December 2010
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Top Five Lines from Much Ado
1. “Silence in the perfectest herald of joy. I were but little happy, if I could say how much.” (Claudio, II:i)
2. “Thou wilt be like a lover presently and tire the hearer with a book of words.” (Don Pedro, I:i)
3. “[It] is the opinion that fire cannot melt out of me. I will die in it at the stake.” (Benedick, I:i)
4. “Thus goes everyone to the world...
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“Needing something to do with your hands is the mother of invention.”
– Me, because I’m fucking clever.
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How about Bicycle?
Customer: What cards do you take?
Me: Visa and Mastercard.
Customer: Do you take American Express?
Me: Just Visa and Mastercard.
Customer: So no American Express.
Me: *twitch*
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“On a scale of 1 to Oh-My-God, how violated do you feel?”
– Overheard at a party full of half-naked theater/dance nerds. I know some strange fucking people.
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Schedule for an Epic Weekend
Saturday 10:00 am: Get picked up by bandmates and banjo player’s girlfriend and proceed to bump Janelle Monae for most of the drive. 11:00 am: Arrive at the Skagit Valley Co-Op in Mount Vernon, WA. Meet already-drunk guy in a red union suit on his way to Santacon (giant Santa gear pubcrawl). Get invited us to play a gig in his hotel room later that night. Exchange numbers. 12:00 pm:...
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Microsoft Word does not care for the word “sinkful.” Surprisingly, it did not suggest “sink full” or “sink-full.” No, it suggests that perhaps I intended to write about a sinful of dirty dishes.
Dirty, dirty dishes.
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Writing Goal of the Day
My goal for today is to fix the intro for one of the short stories in my upcoming collection, titled “A State of the Union Address.” I started it as a writing exercise and then really got into the story (best kind of exercise!), but the beginning is still very prompt-y and needs to be reworked.
I’ve been avoiding this because I already did it months ago, and then lost the...
Question: Am I a dick?
Recently, I posted a link to this really amazing Tumblog called ValentinoVamp. I praised their curative abilities, and how the creator selected beautiful photos and posted nothing else: no commentary, no random bits of text, no messages like “Hey guys, sorry I haven’t posted a lot lately,” etc. Just the photo, with tags giving pertinent information: who was photographed, the...
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“We who make stories know that we tell lies for a living. But they are good lies...”
– Neil Gaiman in his Newbery Medal Acceptance Speech, The Graveyard Book. (via incandenza)
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I guess I'd rather be in Colorado
Speaking of which, it’s official: I will be in Denver and Colorado Springs from January 20-24. My trip planned for last March, which was to encompass the Mile High Blues Festival, had to be canceled due to a family tragedy, but I hope this trip will be wonderful and ideally go off without much in the way of hitches.
My sister has lived in Colorado for a few years now, and this will be my...
zucherman asked: Sarah! Hi ;)
I'm just writing to say hello. How've you been? What's the weather like where you are? It's blustery here in Colorado, but still no damn snow. I'm obviously pretty vexed about this. I've been sitting outside all morning, drinking coffee, smoking cigarettes, and basically not doing shit besides willing it to snow.
I'm just writing to say hello. How've you been? What's the weather like where you are? It's blustery here in Colorado, but still no damn snow. I'm obviously pretty vexed about this. I've been sitting outside all morning, drinking coffee, smoking cigarettes, and basically not doing shit besides willing it to snow.
zucherman asked: Sarah! Hi ;)
I'm just writing to say hello. How've you been? What's the weather like where you are? It's blustery here in Colorado, but still no damn snow. I'm obviously pretty vexed about this. I've been sitting outside all morning, drinking coffee, smoking cigarettes, and basically not doing shit besides willing it to snow.
I'm just writing to say hello. How've you been? What's the weather like where you are? It's blustery here in Colorado, but still no damn snow. I'm obviously pretty vexed about this. I've been sitting outside all morning, drinking coffee, smoking cigarettes, and basically not doing shit besides willing it to snow.
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“This is a song about the things I believe in. I believe in guitars and bass and...”
– Frank Turner (via phoenixrich)
I hope more people have written down his intros to “I Still Believe.” The one at his last Seattle show was similar to this, but started with, “I don’t believe in God, but I do believe in guitars, and bass, and drums, and piano.” He...
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“I resent that those of us who legitimately enjoy whipping our hair back and...”
– Mr. Rian Johnson (via themadeshop)
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zucherman:
The holidays are in the air. You can...
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“I like magic mushrooms, but I hate mushrooms. I like carrots; why couldn’t...”
– Steve Hughes
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The Collection
After a long time believing I wasn’t a good enough writer for fiction, I began writing short stories in 2005 (thanks in no small part to encouragement from my wonderful friend Corey Marie). New Year’s Resolution for 2010 was to self-publish a collection of the stories I’d been collecting, some finished, some not, for the past five years.
2010 turned out to be a bit of a rough...
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