Phyllis Diller – “I want my children to have all the things I couldn’t afford. Then I want to move in with them.”
(i don’t know who phyllis diller is, but i like this quote.)

“Good God, but life could be less than easy, not that he was unaware that it could certainly be a lot worse, but to go about in such a state, pulse high, face red, worried sick that someone would notice how nervous one was, was certainly less than ideal, and he felt sure that his body was secreting all kinds of harmful chemicals and that the more he worried about the harmful chemicals the faster they were pouring out of wherever it was they came from.”
(george saunders, “the falls”)

Miranda July, on the process of creativity.

“I finally just kind of realized, like, oh, you know, like everything else, it’ll just happen the way that things happen unless you assert how you want it to be. And no one’s stopping you from doing it your way; you’re not even suggesting you’re going to do it your way. You know, you’re just like, what happens next, where do I stand?”

stuff white people like

Stuff White People Like

so i’m really shocked this blog got a book deal. it seemed to me many people thought it was blatantly racist, myself included. actually i thought it was really funny at first, but then when i realized there were like 9,000 posts it got old really quick and i realized it was just fueling the fire most of us are trying to put out (raging stereotypes and judgment on a global scale). i don’t mean to put this guy down or anything, but it just kinda bums me out that stuff like this gets published when there are so many people writing, and so many interesting things that never see the light of day. granted lots of terrible things get published all the time, this is just a good example of our weird american culture that’s more interested in things that seem “edgy” and “fresh” and that “poke fun” over things that actually have a statement to make, or have some sort of qualitative something that doesn’t just make people lucky enough to have what is generally referred to as the privilege of living in America feel like shit about themselves.

also it kind of doesn’t do justice to satire, which is a great and entertaining form, but is given a bad name here in my opinion as it seems like such a negative thing. Ugh.

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okay so just because i live in the sunroom, which is right near the front door, doesn’t mean I should have to answer the door each time somebody’s boyfriend shows up. granted i love all the people who usually step foot in this house, to death, but sometimes i am cranky and in bed, on my computer, writing, and obsessing on the internet, or doing anything, really, other than answering the door, and i don’t want to answer the door. i guess i feel like if people know boyfriend will come over they should come unlock the damn thing if they’re going to be snookered away in parts of the house where they can’t hear a person knock (which is all of the time), or just figure it out. it’s not my job to do the logistics. i just don’t want to play doorman. of course, i could just sit here, not answering the door, but i don’t have it within my heart to let johnny shiver outside because i don’t feel like getting up. (i might be lazy, but i don’t want to feel like it.)

also i am addicted to facebook. i thought that phase was over with but it seems that when i need most to be maximizing my productivity i find myself refreshing my friends page in hopes of interesting updates. which almost never show up, because most people put what they actually are doing, like “…is baking cookies, and so excited to see SO AND SO this weekend!” honestly that is boring crap. i wish there was a facebook that only allowed for really interesting updates. like only book quotes for updates. or music quotes. or youtube links, or links to blogs. that’s what we need. a Blogface or a Quotebook. that way, we could still connect with people we [barely] knew, but it wouldn’t be so creepy because there would be something interesting right there–we wouldn’t have to go through all that work of digging through their photos or their wall history to find something intriguing and worthwhile. call me a stalker if you please, i’m just telling it how it is.

email is no better, but at least it’s more egalitarian.

hopefully the next post won’t be about the internet.

in other news, i received my new and improved digital camera today. it is made by samsung, my favorite small electronics producer as of late, and it is pink. and it doesn’t overexpose every picture. so hopefully there will be many picture posts to come so that you, my lucky little blog-watchers, can have something more interesting to parooze that doesn’t take so long to enjoy (or not enjoy).

here’s to hoping it’s not too cold yet this week so our little selves doesn’t freeze; here’s hoping it’s not icy so we don’t slip and fall on our selves. and here’s to obsessing, endlessly, obsessively, about people close but so far away.

quote du soir

“Common sense and truth should feel authorless, writ by time itself.” Miranda July, The Shared Patio

um.

a Sigur Rós review (9.25.08 in Minneapolis)

quote du jour

“I’m always trying to stay right square in the moment. I don’t want to get nostalgic or narcissistic as a writer or a person. I think successful people don’t dwell in the past. I think only losers do.” Bob Dylan in a 2004 interview.