July 2011
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Bon Iver- Come Talk to Me (Peter Gabriel cover)
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I go back and forth on thinking I’m drowning, and thinking I’m bobbing in place. I have to get out of this town- I keep thinking I’m seeing people from the past, which is always a sign that a town has gotten too old (though harder to back up if you’re back in a town from the past). There’s a poem I want to read, which I can’t find. Anyone have a copy of...
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At Last the Secret is Out
At last the secret is out, as it always must come in the end, The delicious story is ripe to tell to the intimate friend; Over the tea-cups and in the square the tongue has its desire; Still waters run deep, my dear, there’s never smoke without fire.
Behind the corpse in the reservoir, behind the ghost on the links, Behind the lady who dances and the man who madly...
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“Sexism in 2011 is a different, more subtle beast, which shows itself in...”
– Guardian UK Article “Why Sexism is no Laughing Matter”
(via bigassfemme)
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“I was trying to describe you to someone a few days ago. You don’t look like any...”
– “I Was Trying to Describe You to Someone” from Revenge of the Lawn - Richard Brautigan (via joolsandnigel)
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crooked indifference: Quick modern history of... →
caraobrien:
Disclaimer: I am not an expert on Somalia. I just wrote this up in hopes that it would help others understand a bit more about what is happening there now.
Europeans began trading in Somalia in the 19th century, leading to Britain and Italy carving out territories there in…
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“It’s difficult to be young. You have to pay thousands of pounds to go to college...”
– Dylan Moran (via letmeeatpears)
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Best Email of the Day or Best Email of the Week?
Dear Brynn ****, Thank you for sending us “Frog Parts, Naming of Things, Where to Start”. We love “Frog Parts” and would like to publish it in Specter Literary Magazine.
Then I called my mom and she yelled in joy for me, since I was in a public place. That is reason 18907 why I love my mom.
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“You will not destroy us. You will not destroy our democracy nor our quest for a...”
– Norwegian Prime Minister, Jens Stoltenberg
The situation in Norway is devastating. There really is nothing else I can say at the moment, I’m just watching with horror as the events unfold. I did want to take a moment and say what an enormous amount of respect I have for Norway’s PM and his...
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To My Twenties By Kenneth Koch
How lucky that I ran into you When everything was possible For my legs and arms, and with hope in my heart And so happy to see any woman— O woman! O my twentieth year! Basking in you, you Oasis from both growing and decay Fantastic unheard of nine- or ten-year oasis A palm tree, hey! And then another And another—and water! I’m still very impressed by you....
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Albums of Our Lives: Amy Winehouse's Back to Black →
We twisted, we swayed, we drank and smoked to her, like her and along with her. We listened to Amy while we knocked over candles dancing in dark bars and when we smoked cigarettes in our underwear out the bedroom window in the morning. A girl once asked me if I wanted to watch her dance to “Fuck Me Pumps.” I said yes.
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Poem
Some days I feel that I exude a fine dust like that attributed to Pylades in the famous Chronica nera areapagitica when it was found
and it’s because an excavationist has reached the inner chamber of my heart and rustled the paper bearing your name
I don’t like that stranger sneezing all over our love.
Frank O’Hara
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Militants Hang 8-Year-Old Boy in Afghanistan →
An 8 year-old boy was hanged by militants in Afghanistan’s Helmand province after the boy’s father — a police officer in the southern city of Gereshk — refused to comply with militants’ demands to provide them with a police vehicle, officials said.
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Mother Jones magazine on Tumblr: The Teen Suicide... →
The first was TJ. Then came Samantha, Aaron, Nick, and Kevin. Over the past two years, a total of nine teenagers have committed suicide in a Minnesota school district represented by Rep. Michele Bachmann—the latest in May—and many more students have attempted to take their lives. State public…
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One of the Lives by W. S. Merwin If I had not met the red-haired boy whose father
had broken a leg parachuting into Provence
to join the resistance in the final stage of the war
and so had been killed there as the Germans were moving north
out of Italy and if the friend who was with him
as he was dying had not had an elder...
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Deleted Facebook
though that’s a bit misleading. My account is deactivated, and if in two weeks, I haven’t signed on, erroneously clicked a like button or chanced upon a Facebook page without meaning to, it’s gone-gone. I’ve gone through and downloaded the photos I wanted to keep, which brought with it the realization that I have a tendency to make the same 3.2 faces in photos. I need to...
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I applied to my first writing fellowship in a long time, kissed the envelope and sent it on its way. Let’s see. At least I’m back in the water.
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As I Walked Out One Evening
As I walked out one evening, Walking down Bristol Street, The crowds upon the pavement Were fields of harvest wheat. And down by the brimming river I heard a lover sing Under an arch of the railway: ‘Love has no ending. ‘I’ll love you, dear, I’ll love you Till China and Africa meet, And the river jumps over the mountain And the salmon...
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joolsandnigel: delightfullyvague: Dogs and Smurfs;... →
delightfullyvague:
Dogs and Smurfs; Why women writers and stories about women are taken less seriously, by Max Barry
miniar:
This has been a great year for male writers, with women shunted aside for major prizes and all-new hand-wringing about why it is so. Because, I don’t know…
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An Inside Look at UN Women's First Year →
Released July 6, the report begins with a celebration of the last century of progress. One hundred years since the civil rights movement, seven decades since women took to the labor force en mass, and 16 years after then-U.S. First Lady Hillary Clinton declared that “women’s rights are human rights,” the progress is undeniable. As the first annual report of the new agency, U.N....
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“I try to teach my heart not to want things it can’t have.”
– Alice Walker (via creatingaquietmind)
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“Rape culture is telling girls and women to be careful about what you wear, how...”
– I might just copy and paste this so I can have this perfect answer ready when people say things like “but how does this “rape culture” actually affect women?” (via fuckyeahclare)
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joolsandnigel replied to your post: So posting less
I LOVE YOU AND MISS YOU HOPE EVERYTHING IS WELL BACK IN AMURRKA
True fact: I love and miss you more.
Things are ok here in America, but weird and stressful. Which is lame. You should return to the US, and we’ll have a coke.
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So posting less
Though I doubt that’s actually gone noticed by anyone, my apologies. I moved back to the US, was on a cot at a friend’s crowded place in NYC, and now on a futon back in Virginia, sharing time with another friend, her son, her Great Dane, and mother in law. Who are all lovely, but it makes it hard to get on tumblr, or do anything that isn’t related to looking for a job.
Anyone...
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My Mother’s Pillow
My mother sleeps with the Bible open on her pillow; she reads herself to sleep and wakens startled. She listens for her heart: each breath is shallow. For years her hands were quick with thread and needle. She used to sew all night when we were little; now she sleeps with the Bible on her pillow and believes that Jesus understands her sorrow: her children grown, their...
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