July 2012
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“To be hopeful in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the...”
– howard zinn.
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Y'all need to stop what you're doing and watch... →
Say what thou wilt about the London Olympics, but this is GOLDEN. AbFab foreva!
a bright wall in a dark room.: The Truman Show... →
brightwalldarkroom:
GOOD AFTERNOON, GOOD EVENING, AND GOODNIGHT.
by Sara Gray
My good friend Jenny (not her real name) lives in Los Angeles. Like many, she moved there to find a job in the entertainment industry. She toiled through a string of grueling, unpaid internships on independent films and student…
Here’s the first piece I wrote for Bright Wall Dark Room!
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“When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say...”
– Fred Rogers
Mr. Rogers always knew the right thing to say
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Chicklit Tumbls: Comic-Con: A Post-script →
hangingfire:
chicklittumbls:
I’ve said that on the first day of the con, I felt like an outsider. Not geek enough to be there. I had no costume, very little comic book knowledge, and I didn’t collect anything. But what I didn’t realize is that that doesn’t matter. If you love something, you belong at Comic-Con.
I read Shellie’s commentary this morning while my editor at Tor was helping me...
San Diego Comic Con, Tragedy, and the Family of... →
nerdpromnomnom:
And then I wrote this.
Not going to say much more other than that it was something I needed to say, and I struggled mightily to find the words with which to say it. And I think I succeeded, mostly.
A beautiful, trenchant article by a good friend. Please read it.
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Watchhangingfire:
Full trailer for Paul Thomas Anderson’s The Master.
Get this movie in my theatre now plz.
(Also, someone please reassure me that I’m not the only person who has a slight, brief, Doctor Who-related mental hiccup every time she sees the title of this movie.)
MUST SEE MUST SEE MUST SEEEEEEEE
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BedPost Confessions, 7:30PM this Thursday at ND →
I’ll be reading a piece of mine this Thursday for BedPost Confessions, a monthly performance series on sex and sexuality, at ND Studios. The show starts at 8PM, but come early if you want to get a seat. My piece is entitled “American Alligator,” and…I NEED TO PRACTICE IT. Ulp!
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In which I learn how to NOT see through walls. →
I’m still on vacation; I have one more full day in beautiful Bend, Oregon before I head back home. In the meantime, here’s an essay I wrote for The Under 35 Project on the subject of “deepening my meditation practice” (whatever that means).
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Off to Bend!
I’m off to Bend, Oregon tomorrow morning to visit my cousin, Jane, so there won’t be much Tumblring for the next week or so. I can’t wait to savor the cool air, pine trees, rocky coasts, and snow-capped mountains!
Of course, the night before I leave Austin’s fabled hellsummer for the cooler climes of the Pacific Northwest, it rains like crazy.
“A FOG in London daytime like the night is,
Our fellow-creatures seem like...”
– From Punch, December 30, 1882 (via aubade)
I’m currently reading (and loving the hell out of) Peter Ackroyd’s London: A Biography. I love London, but I’m really glad I was there in 2002 and not 1882, because apparently all the lyrics about London in Sweeney Todd were true. London...
Another Random Fact
heatherpattern:
I once sang “Man In the Box” by Alice in Chains, topless, in public, and changed all the lyrics to be about cats.
The theme here is: a large percentage of the crazy times in my life have involved me being naked or topless
I WITNESSED THIS! And it was amazing. Oh, Flipside.
