June 2013
9 posts
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FEELING: The one where you’ve built an idea about the future like an intricate origami creature inside your chest, and slowly or suddenly the possibilities turn into impossibilities and for hours or days there’s a rustling in your rib cage as the complex structure destroys itself, unfolding and flattening, unfolding and flattening pleat by pleat.
HOW TO EAT IT: Maybe just like an entire loaf of bread. Put butter on it. Put anything you can find on it.
” —A Guide to Eating Very Particular Feelings
This might be the best thing I’ve ever seen on The Hairpin. I strongly encourage you to go read the whole thing.
“It’s only led me to complete awesomeness at all times. It’s only led me to awesome truth and awesomeness. Beauty, truth, awesomeness. That’s all it is.”
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Kanye West , when asked if his instinct to have the record straight has led him astray.
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May 2013
12 posts
The Paris Review
Report: $100 for a blog post
Report: $100 for 1,200-word essay (online)
Report: “payment usually prompt”
This might be my new favorite blog. A crowd sourced report of what online and print publications actually pay their writers.
Whale you look at that!
It’s Gloria’s birthday.
I don’t even know what I did to deserve this, but I am honored to be the recipient.
Easy! You did two very important things.
1.- professed a fondness for the film Free Willy
2.- had a birthday on a day I have schoolAlso? You’re just so overWHALEingly adORCAble. Totally FINtastic. DOLPHINately the best.
I’m not sure I can stop.
Oh my god, the puns. I feel so loved.
Whale you look at that!
It’s Gloria’s birthday.
I don’t even know what I did to deserve this, but I am honored to be the recipient.
