December 2011
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Anonymous asked: I know you are a fan of "The Great Gatsby", but have you read any other work by Fitzgerald?
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I think I can sleep now
I’ll try to be brief, though I tend to write a lot of a asides and wander off into tangent land thus completely and utterly failing at being brief. If you’ve ever had the privilege of carrying on an extended, actual face-to-face conversation with me then you know how I write is very much how I converse. I’m easily sidetracked. My mind operates almost too fast for me to pump out...
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If I were with a writer who stuck strictly to a certain genre or just wrote poetry, I still think I might have a hard time. I prattled off all the books I have on one of my bookshelves last night. On it are books that run the gamut of genres. While I post mostly general fiction pieces to the Tumblr dedicated strictly to my writing, I write all sorts of different genres and styles.
I hate...
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With All Due Respect Mr. King,
I just don’t think I could date a fellow writer. I tend to get rather competitive when it comes to things I know I’m fairly adept at, or have a decent handle on. That is especially true if I know the other person is more proficient. It provides me motivation to do better and overcome that other person in question, which would be, I think, a bit unhealthy if one is trying to foster a...
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I'm a horrible planner of plans
Earlier today I invited some friends out for dinner because it suddenly struck me that I wanted to go out and have a nice meal with nice people while talking about probably not nice things or whatever.
Naturally when it comes time to actually go somewhere, I can’t decide what to eat. And then no one else wants to make a decision because I was the one who suggested we go out in the first...
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I need to drop 20lbs
this is not a resolution. Corey does not partake in those silly “resolutions.”
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That awkward moment when you send out a mass-text...
THE ANGRY THERAPIST: The Lopsided Friendship →
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The Lopsided Friendship
When we invest in something and don’t receive what is expected or promised, we take action immediately. We will spend hours on the phone fighting over our overcharged cell phone bill. Return food if it didn’t come the way we ordered it. Speak to a manager if the server was rude. Exchange clothes that didn’t fit when we got home. Pull our money out...
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More lists I make when I can't sleep
The First Shelf
Sunrise Mountain High School 2001 Vol. 5; Sunrise Mountain High School 2003 Vol. 7; Sunrise Mountain High School 2004 Vol. 8; The Historian; Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell; Lowboy; The Rules of Attraction; The Informers; Less Than Zero; Glamorama; Beautiful Children; Call Me By Your Name; The Gunslinger; Just After Sunset; Wizard and Glass; The Drawing of the Three; The Stand;...
5 years
I need a solid night of getting drunk with someone and just unloading all this…stuff. You know?
Let’s walk down a busy street and yell at passing cars and laugh at the people walking by because—what the fuck—we’re alive and what else is there to do?
Let’s climb up on a rooftop of some building and stand at the ledge and howl at the moon.
I want to see my...
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“I keep thinking about this river somewhere, with the water moving really fast....”
– Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go
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“This is the thing: When you hit 28 or 30, everything begins to divide. You can...”
– Relevant Magazine “11 Things To Know At 25”, #11 (via kingstonhonkers)
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"This week your lucky day is Saturday. Enjoy the...
You better not let me down cookie of fortunes.
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Fuck You, Fitzgerald
“But his heart was in a constant, turbulent riot. The most grotesque and fantastic conceits haunted him in his bed at night. A universe of ineffable gaudiness spun itself out in his brain while the clock ticked on the wash-stand and the moon soaked with wet light his tangled clothes upon the floor. Each night he added to the pattern of his fancies until drowsiness closed down upon some vivid...
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“The two men have the same anxieties about being gay but coming from different...”
– Brian Moylan, “Weekend: The Best Damn Romantic Movie in a Long Time”
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“Human beings are funny. They long to be with the person they love but refuse to...”
– Sigmund Freud (via saddest-summer)
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It's Official: Gay Is the New Black →
I’ve been seeing this saying: “Gay is the New Black” popping up around my dash from various sources today, so I thought I’d share this article I read over on HuffingtonPost.com.
I don’t understand why “gay” has to be the new anything, let alone the “new black” (as if the “old black” ever went anywhere). Sure it makes for catchy...
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I have this urge to do something completely...
“And now, all these years later, it seemed to him that the most horrible fact of...”
– The Dark Tower IV, Wizard and Glass (via deathbyfish)
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THE ANGRY THERAPIST: Five Things You Should Stop... →
- CREATING PERFECT SCENARIOS IN YOUR HEAD THAT WILL NEVER COME TRUE. This is called expecting and unless you’re pregnant, it only leads to an empty bottle and a broken heart. If you…
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Dinner @ PF Chang's
I’m going to keep this to a list because I’ve got other things to write.
He went in for a hug, I went in for a handshake
His knuckles were far too knobby for the size of his fingers
He was nice.
Too nice.
He never had an opinion contrary to any I had.
He doesn’t drink
He doesn’t drink
He doesn’t drink
He doesn’t drink
He had nice hair
He also works in...
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Obligatory List
Clothes
Cash
The Wire (seasons 2 and 3)
Star Wars (Episodes IV, V, VI blu-ray collection)
11/22/63 by Stephen King
Dragon Age II
Fallout: New Vegas (to replace the copy I accidentally sent to GameFly)
A watch
A bottle of The Glenlivet 12
iTunes giftcard
a can of instant snow
a book of riddles
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This guy
I’m meeting for dinner tonight texts me in fragments. That is to say, his texts are never complete sentences, or even thoughts. They come at me like Morse Code or a telegram.
Party. Was fun. Work on Saturday.
I can only hope his conversational ability is of a higher degree than that of his text-messaging.
Oh. And they always end with an emoticon. I’ve nothing against the use of...
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"So why did you sleep with him then? If it wasn't...
I suppose I was just a young guy. A 19 year-old boy who felt like there was a finish line that everyone else managed to cross while he was still chasing it. I guess that makes it sound more poetic than the truth. Okay. This is the truth: I was a drunk, horny 19 year-old who wanted to get off and he was the only person in the room and the only one, at the time, willing to get me there.
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On Reading Poems to a Senior Class at South High
Before I opened my mouth I noticed them sitting there as orderly as frozen fish in a package.
Slowly water began to fill the room though I did not notice it till it reached my ears
and then I heard the sounds of fish in a aquarium and I knew that though I had tried to drown them with my words that they had only opened up like gills for them and let me in.
Together we swam around the room like...
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“Maybe once he could have been something different, but one night his life turned...”
– Stephen King, 11/22/63
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bendoverbarbie asked: Tag, you’re it! Here are the rules: Each tagged person must post ten things about themselves. You have to choose and tag ten people. Go to their blogs and tell them you tagged them. No tag back.
This Christmas
I pretty much got everything I asked for.
I hope everyone else is having as awesome a time as I am.
Merry Christmahanukwanzakah!
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