October 2010
23 posts
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-9-26) →
Laura Veirs (53)
The National (36)
The Innocence Mission (20)
Robyn (14)
Laura Marling (10)
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September 2010
33 posts
“Above all else, guard your heart for it is the wellspring of life.”
– Proverbs 4:23
Cruel Intentions
To say that implementing laws that address contemporary issues are an affront or incongruous with the intentions of our founding fathers as expressed in the US Constitution is silly at the least and logically incoherent babble at worst. A mind can have intention, minds—as in minds which each had their own intentions regarding the founding of our nation—cannot. To accept an...
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thebronzemedal:
I’m going to make myself a brown bag book cover for Jonathan Franzen’s Freedom, so people stop remarking on my reading “The Oprah book.”
This brings a whole new meaning to the term “brown bagging it.”
Fall
I know it is almost fall.
The night sky is winking with its big eye,
And the smell of manure
In the fields
Is being smothered by the long fingers
Of winter.
In Which We Determine The Reason for the Existence...
me: dang it. i'm all out of almond milk for my coffee
vegetate77: awwwww
me: this is why i need a gf. to get me almond milk when i'm out.
vegetate77: hahaha that is not what girls are for ahmaud
me: what? they aren't? well i don't know what good they're for then.
vegetate77: me either
me: well then, until we figure it out, i say they get me almond milk when i need it.
vegetate77: false i thought girls were supposed to be kind and warm or something like that
me: i'm pretty sure they're not stuffed toys or electric blankets. although an electric stuffed toy that warmed you in winter would be pretty sweet. for, you know, kids.
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-9-19) →
The Innocence Mission (29)
Robyn (25)
Johann Sebastian Bach (16)
Laura Veirs (9)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (7)
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The Earl
I’ve taken
To going to concerts alone
In an attempt
To befriend myself
Is that blogging?: While sitting in the park last... →
distorte:
While sitting in the park last week I was watched from the two-foot safety of bushes by a rangy and mangy robin. My sandwich was watched, I should say. Both hands were occupied (mine); one with the sandwich lighter by the mouthful, the other with a novel, ever getting heavier. After a few seconds…
This is a great short, short story, but it makes me want a sammich.
“In His love He has done His works, and in His love He has made all things...”
– - Julian of Norwich, Christian Mystic
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The Innocence Mission (128)
Robyn (54)
Laura Marling (23)
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-9-5) →
The Innocence Mission (99)
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Sarah Jaffe (13)
Slow Club (13)
Laura Veirs (11)
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Gameday
I missed the game and its festive prologue to help my dear friends in the bittersweet activity of moving. It was time well, but perhaps, sadly spent.
On Sadness
The lines around his eyes grew long and dug deep into his skin as he smiled. It was uneasy, and I could see the sadness buried in those shaky crevices. I knew this because it was my sadness too.