February 2012
49 posts
“A covered bridge is a bridge with enclosed sides and a roof, often accommodating...”
– Covered bridge - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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New poem, 'Historic American Covered Bridges'
All I want is for you to want to kiss me. There are less than 1000 covered bridges left in America which still feels like a lot of covered bridges like about twenty in each state so everyone has a chance to see them I say. Repeated layers of white paint manifest the devotion of members of the local community. Your response is that they are not evenly spaced or even in all states I understand...
“When temps working at a Walmart warehouse sued for not getting paid for all...”
– I Was a Warehouse Wage Slave | Mother Jones
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Whoever You Are, You Start Off A Stranger (by Amy...
insteadofstars:
till we edge beyond the fuzziness of presumed
contact. Oh stranger boy,
your face is like mine. But we sign cheques with different hands.
Now we wear each other’s cologne,
we have a cologne. The tendrils of our lungs
function harder when apart.
If you see this scarf around my neck it means
unravel the scarf from around my neck.
If you see this...
“Uncle Leo is Jerry Seinfeld’s uncle, a bit character who is eccentric....”
– Uncle Leo alias Len Lesser Biography and Filmography on Seinfeld
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“The word turns horribly
from brilliance to a dead weight.”
– clinic » OUTSTANDING by Jonny Reid. Click through for the full poem.
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Ivor Cutler: Trouble Trouble
Why don’t a...
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“Sternberg’s emotional state is now officially one of panic. And the panic...”
– David Foster Wallace, ‘Westward the Course of Empire Takes Its Way’
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“Amanda tried writing a card or something. She wrote that she and her fiancé had...”
– Allegra Goodman: “La Vita Nuova” : The New Yorker
Hits the ‘Lorrie Moore’ side of spurned-romance writing.
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“Many versions of American pastoral, going back through the nineteenth century,...”
– Article from 2007 by Paul Giles that came from a time when Franzen wasn’t such an almighty dick.
“As Patrick Field, cycling guru and founder of the London School of Cycling says;...”
– Why I ‘Run Red Lights’ - Wheels, Pedals, Person
Wicked. My default thing about most people’s lack of etiquette (taking the corner on a stairwell, diagonal walking at zebra-crossing, trying to get on trains before people have gotten off) is that they’re not happy.
