February 2010
159 posts
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I guess getting paid to teach kids about acting and write a Mesoamerican Panto version of Little Red Riding Hood while watching Emperor’s New Groove (relevant research!) isn’t so bad.
Now if only I could work the same amount of hours at, like, $300/hr. Then I wouldn’t have to find a full-time job.
Too much to ask?
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What A Lovely Name →
I love using this website when I’m writing something. It’s always been important to me that my character’s names mean something or are, at least, le mot juste which may factor in origin and how it rolls off the tongue.
This site is fun to use and pretty to look at, too!
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“Busking’s alright. Juggling is not. Mime’s are evil, and street...”
– My husband in an FB convo regarding the desperation an artist can succumb to in trying to find work. And by ‘artist’ I mean an actress and a very talented singer/songerwriter. And by ‘an actress’ I mean me.
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On Getting a New (Used) Car
Someone: Just make sure you don't pay more than 1000 for [the car].
Someone Else: 1000 Dollars?? Where are we getting it from? An African orphanage?
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Write one leaf about a burrito.
(via writeoneleaf)
On W72nd between Broadway and Columbus, just a few doors up from the famous but nauseating Gray’s Papaya and the also famous but evil CitiBank (but that’s another leaf) is the wondrous, easily missed rectangle that is BurritoVille.
Or at least, it was there in 2004. I suppose I could Google Map It but I don’t want to face the possibility that it’s...
January 2010
75 posts
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Write one leaf about paint.
(via writeoneleaf)
The best part of writing about paint is the opportunity to use the word ‘splotches’.
“I joke that a good playwright is the one with their lips moving when they read.”
– Gary Kirkham
“There’s no gravity! The physics of this game are jacked.”
– My husband while playing Halo.
Solidarity Le Gap! →
I, for one, am glad I don’t have a blinding white smile and Chicklet teeth. I think the whole trend is ridiculous but I won’t insult those who are into it. Let’s just say - variety is the spice of life.
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Write one leaf about checklists.
(via writeoneleaf)
Checklists only serve to guilt me for not doing them. The pinpoint stab of joy that comes from completing an item is not worth the confidence-smashing sucker punch that comes from not completing an item.
(Yes! Now I can check off ‘write something today’ and stop crying.)
“The speech was checked and checked by the White House, but there’s one...”
– US News
Whew! Now I don't have to drive into TO for... →
“I guess I better buy an iCare first because I don’t.”
– Friend of my husband’s regarding the iPad.
“Director: REZA. This film is about 10 minute of psychotic girl life. she had...”
– An actual post on mandy.com
You see what I have to deal with?
Dinner Dates & History
Canadian Friend (while discussing American historical sites he'd like to visit): Oh, that's right. No one cares about the Civil War.
Me: I do! Boy, do I ever!
Canadian Friend: Why???
My Husband: Because she's BLACK!
Everyone: nervous laughter
Me (through oblivious laughter): I've never been able to say that before in a social context. Thanks for that!
“Yea, that makes more sentence.”
– Me, talking to myself while editing lyrics
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Survival Job, or Eating Your Own Calf
Survival Job Hunting is a lot like trying to survive in the wild.
You start out calm and with a little bit of bravado and denial.
“We’re not lost. The moss grows on the North side of the tree. I got dis.”
Then, as you discover that not only are you lost but your fate now rests squarely in the hands of….fate…and animals who see you only as a source of food and not...
Man said he used health app on his iPhone to treat... →
randyhaddock:
Usually, when someone says their iPhone is a life saver, they are talking about the phone helping them find a good takeout spot or an emergency bathroom.
When Dan Woolley says it, he really means it. He used a medical app saved on his phone to treat a leg injury after the Hotel Montana in Port-au-Prince collapsed around him.
Woolley, who is from Colorado Springs, is one of the...
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audreyhepburncomplex:
Why can’t women put on mascara with their mouth closed?
I don’t know. I tried doing it this morning, and it meant arching my head back a lot more to see if I was doing it right. Perhaps that’s it?
Ask me anything
It helps keep your eyes open since it’s a natural reaction. Try squinting with your mouth open - takes effort. I find it interesting that people care about...
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The Platonic Pick-Up
(via writeoneleaf about Making New Friends)
It’s really hard to make new girl friends. Every now and then I see some girl at the mall or Starbucks and I think,
Cute outfit!
Amazing shoes!
Superior look on her face!
Could it be? Is she talking about how amazing bacon is??
But then what do you do? It’s like a Platonic Pick-Up. The mood has to be right, you have to say exactly the...
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“At the corner of Broadway and King
There’s a picture of you and me
It’s...”
– Part of a poem I’m working on
“But, kid, I’m a pilot. It’s all I believe in. It’s all I...”
– I’m A Pilot
Fanfarlo
It Was 27 Years Ago Today
(written on my birthday, Jan 20)
Twenty seven years ago today, At 11:15 am exactly, mind you, I
Was
Born.
Button-nosed and like 114 pounds lighter. Innocent. Unaware of dreams fulfilled or unfulfilled. Unencumbered by loss and tragedy
(although not much less confused about what was going on and where the cuss I was and how the cuss I got there.)
Sure of two things: My parents’...
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Stuff White People Like
I forgot all about this blog by Christian Lander. It’s hysterical. A few excerpts:
#127 Where the Wild Things Are
It is a guarantee that whenever it is announced that a popular book is being turned into a movie, white people will get upset. This is partly due to their fear that something they love will be made accessible to more people and thus enjoyed by more people which immediately...
“If you don’t like where you are, then change it! You’re not a tree.”
– Jim Rohn
My friend has this as her FB status today. Wonderful quote.
““Can you hold… can you hold my starfish? It doesn’t like it...”
– Sleep Talkin’ Man
Saw this in VSL today and I can’t stop laughing. This woman uses a voice-activated recorder to tape the outrageous things her “mild-mannered, British husband” at night and then blogs what he says in his sleep. Freakin. Hilarious.
(Watch out for F-bombs,...
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“I am the Queen of Impatient Patience!”
– This moi.
“I’m just a man doing the best I can. I might fall short but I love the...”
– K-os, Aviator from his latest album Yes!
Myspace Pick Up
Every now and then I get a really wonderful pick up attempt by either a Black guy or a foreign guy on my practically defunct Myspace.
This one is so…incredible…that I may actually respond and let him know as much.
Should probably run that by my husband first though.
Enjoy.
(I should note that it was written in red. The color of looooove.)
hey there
i know i am a stranger to...
Follow the Rescue and Rebuild of a Haitian... →
More on Lifechurch PA from the msnbc reporter traveling with them.
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I used to love to tell the story of how I chased down a mouse in my NYC apartment whilst naked but now I can’t seem to remember all the details.
That happens when you’re naked.
Sometimes.
I’ve heard.
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Last night I dreamt I had a son. We brought him home from the hospital to my parents’ old house and my best friend Jessa was there. She was acting like a seasoned pro:
“Here. Let me take care of him.”
So she started wrapping him up in something with her back to me so I couldn’t quite see and brought him back to me looking like one of those Anne Geddes photos. His little head (which was...
“I shall simply tell you what I told the jury, gentle reader – I was indeed...”
– From Joel Stickley’s “How to Write Badly Well” post entitled
“Don’t be put off by wildly conflicting registers of language”.
Hilarious.
