November 2011
71 posts
how i think of something to write, 80% of the time
1. i get drunk at a place, usually with other people, or maybe with myself
2. either the people i’m with or the tv will start saying something interesting or ridiculous and i’ll get a thought.
3. i write this in a text app on my phone called “plain text.”
4. the next morning i look at it and if it’s not dumb i write it.
not that i’m trying to promote the...
jakec asked: If you had to choose the former, what would you write about for that one book?
Watchthis deserves a pulitzer
tylercoates:
I’ve spent a good chunk of my weekend giving belly-scratches and making the cat do jazz hands.
sometimes i start tangential posts that i can't...
Things I’m Not Convinced Actually Exist
Sea monkeys
A toilet paper and tampon section at the organic co-op
The Olsen Twins’ boy brother
how the internet wants me to decorate my studio
I asked my Tumblr and Twitter followers how many walls, if any, i should paint red. the overwhelming answer was 1.
Philolzophy had a good point:
“not red for realz. especially in a studio. red is aesthetically pleasing but not remotely relaxing, it will make you anxious. I would paint it something but a little more neutral/calming, and I would paint all the walls.”
They’re...
red
should i take up my new landlord’s offer to paint 1-3 walls of my studio a color (the only one of which i like is red)?
1. Yes.
2. No.
3. just 1 wall
4. 2 walls
5. all 3 walls
6. yes but NOT red
vote!
The Entrepreneurial Generation - William... →
stoweboyd:
William Deriesiewicz via NYTimes.com
Here’s what I see around me, in the city and the culture: food carts, 20-somethings selling wallets made from recycled plastic bags, boutique pickle companies, techie start-ups, Kickstarter, urban-farming supply stores and bottled water that wants to save the planet.
Today’s ideal social form is not the commune or the movement or even the ...
puppytime
one morning i woke up and my computer was like “someone has bought you an app called Puppytime.”
so i went to iTunes and saw that it was my boyfriend. i downloaded it and put it on my iPhone. supposedly, Puppytime sends you pictures of puppies periodically throughout the day.
when this happens, my phone literally barks and a notification comes up that says, “It’s...
my car died the other day
cuz i left the lights on.
since i don’t understand how doing so makes a whole car die, i always feel like cars do this just to punish us for being stupid.
“ha, i’ll teach you to check the details. now go tell a stranger how dumb you are so they’ll have to give you a jump, because my battery totally still works … just being dead until you pay for your mistake.”
Lazy Woman's Uptown Market
We sell:
-Soda
-Frozen meals
-Pre-made sandwiches
-Alcohol
-Tampons
-Cigarettes
-Candy
-Chips
FEATURING: An extra-large parking lot.
Why does this not exist?
IDGI
re: 90% of tattoos.
i don't understand decorating
i thought about making a post that was like “here is cute stuff i want to put in my new apartment” but then i wasn’t sure where to look.
i went to urbanoutfitters.com and felt like i should instead be looking at like a local, vintage thing that probably doesn’t have a website.
then i realized that i basically don’t have any money, and while i would like to buy a...
megan boyle is a smart
“I like thinking about the book as a semi-permanent object that came to exist from the transient climates of my brain and the internet.”
also i like that her blog was called “DON’T F*CK WITH ME, I’M AN ICE SKATER!!!111@#!@q2″ in the way that only a disenchanted former ice skater could.
Boyfriend lol hehe →
this video is kinda a cute vid re: boyfriend.
moving.
i have decided to mildly upgrade (my rent), which the internet informs me is currently “insanely cheap!” and move into a studio apartment where i can [obligatory “aren’t i cute but laid back” girl statement e.g. “eat pizza in my underwear whenever i want”].
i have wanted to live alone since i was maybe 6-years-old and scheming about how i could get my...
Is increasing inequality “The New Normal”?
I love that the TC Daily Planet is clear about the news’ role in setting the agenda for what matters, and that they’re focusing on racial inequality. I feel like this problem is the largely ignored element of the Occupy Wall St. movement going on right now, but the biggest element that will truly lead to our future kids having shitty lives.
tcdailyplanet:
The Challenge: Numerous...
once my sister tried to suggest ways i could help...
which i think centered on teaching people english.*
and i got to thinking. i have never had the goal of “helping people,” at least in a traditional charity sense.
i just want to make things. the kind of things that make me feel less weird/alone/bored in life. can i pass that off as helping people?
*ranty side note: considering the growing opinion that “everyone in the world...
Advice for college writers, or people who still...
I think when you’re 20 and gung-ho about writing a novel, you feel a lot of pressure to make it a unique, highly stylized masterpiece that spews out a brand new theory about life on the first page.
Don’t do this.
To write a novel people will want to read, you actually don’t need to:
-Write like a beatnik from the 60’s who is on lots of drugs
-Make up a goofy new format...
