January 2010
46 posts
December 2009
69 posts
“ This place we’re flying over now isn’t in the atlas, is it?” the pilot said,...”
– Roald Dahl, The BFG
Follow-up to TheBronzeMedal’s post. Happy New Year, everybody!
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Stereotyping People by Their Favorite Author →
J.D. Salinger
Kids who don’t fit in (duh).
David Foster Wallace
Confirmed 90’s literati.
Ernest Hemingway
Men who own cottages.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
People who get ARM mortgages.
Vladimir Nabokov
Men who use words like ‘dubious’ and ‘tenacity’.
Hunter S Thompson
That kid in your philosophy class with the stupid tattoo.
Cormac McCarthy
Men who don’t eat cream cheese.
Lewis Carroll
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WatchThomas Mars, a fishmonger
“I want to give a really bad party. I mean it. I want to give a party where...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald
Tender is the Night
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“Ladies and gentlemen and ladiemen and gentles? This is the way the world ends....”
– some commenter on The Awl
molls:
Let’s Call the Whole Thing Off-...
Office
A very short story.
I was washing my mug in the office kitchen when I heard someone come in behind me. I turned around and saw it was my friend Christina. She’s not really my friend, but she’s like an office friend. “Hey Christina, how’s it going?” I said.
“Oh, I’m good,” she said. “Tired.”
“Yeah,” I said. “I’m really tired, too.”
“Yeah,” she said. “I’m like, exhausted.”
“No kidding,” I said....
Q: Seriously: can I straighten a wig..? →
“Though I think if you see too many art-house movies these days you will realize...”
– Zembla
