April 2012
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“At 19 he completed La Doublure (The Understudy), a verse novel of 5600...”
– Raymond Roussel at his own expense. The special paranoia of profoundly strange men.
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“John: I like the effect of these numbers scaling down in the sentence from five...”
– The Lifespan of a Fact. John D’Agata, author. Jim Fingal, fact-checker.
I’m trying to write something that’s interesting to read. This is how we make history; imaginative (people). I’m not critical, more gleeful.
dear andy,
Twenty bucks for a room. The sign said vacancy? It’s extra for that. Don’t worry, I’ll go without. Sleep if you can get it; next chance will be ______________. We’re adults, we drink. It’s what we do. I remember your mom drank kombucha at midnight. I’m so fucked. The power went out in Corinth. God, it’s hot as hell. Lay awake all night with the fan on, I...
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Local: a Kickstarter index
At any given moment, there’s a handful of hyper-local/globally-relevant initiatives being undertaken on Kickstarter. They range from urban gardens and rainbow parades to revitalizing grist mills, but they all share a serious sense of — for lack of a better phrase — community integrity. They provide places for people to convene, to care about each other, to plan the future, to plan a better...
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WatchBrian’s parents are visiting.
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“But for a culture, nostalgia is a kind of travel. It is about somewhere else,...”
– Anywhere but here.
“As for hiring in the hyper competitive Silicon Valley scene, Migicovsky has a...”
– Sup, Pebble.
