- dear cold weather: return my toes or i will blow hot air into your ear. i require them to balance myself. #
- @gralinnaea so far, i like it. i’ll give the full verdict after, but it comes highly recommended, so i have hopes. in reply to gralinnaea #
- when it starts up, the heater in the hallway sounds like analog tv static. (that comparison will soon be meaningless to anyone living.) #
- <redacted puling. whining in public is poor form. stiff upper eyelash, and all such. pip-pip.> #
- “The Growing Season” should be a horror movie about beards. Instead it’s a jazz album. #
- @nalohopkinson gas station cashews for breakfast…. #foodisgood #butimdoingitwrong in reply to nalohopkinson #
- @hmapple more than meets the eyyeeeeeeee in reply to hmapple #
- @nicoletaylor28 you have had some urbane stalkers. down here it’s all possum blood. and other possum bits, but it’s all possum, all the time in reply to nicoletaylor28 #
- @nicoletaylor28 clearly you’ve never been to the buffets outside las vegas. they rival hell for taste & diversity (it’s always possum bits). in reply to nicoletaylor28 #
- @documentingme i can smell your illness from here. it’s tinged with apples. in reply to documentingme #
- “Life is an endless cycle of song, / A medley of extemporanea/ Nothing in love can ever go wrong/ And I am Marie of Roumania” Gertrude Stein #
- @nicoletaylor28 waiting for my memoirs to tell it. i will write entire chapters of “buying new socks at the dollar store” & “reading a lot.” in reply to nicoletaylor28 #
- @chrislibey “Pleasantly surprised by Moon Bastards.” Fix’d. (they’re from the moooooon) in reply to chrislibey #
- ok, this one is a cut above. #hilarity RT @warrenellis: T-shirt Of The Week 011 is live: SCIENCE GANGSTER: http://bit.ly/9LMtx3 #TOTW #
- @documentingme don’t fight book accumulation. fight whalemuderers. in reply to documentingme #
- @nalohopkinson a deli near my work is infected with all kinds of bowelturning bugs & yet i’ve still had their reheated spindle hotdogs. why? in reply to nalohopkinson #
- And suddenly i’m a lot more interested in javascript. RT @johnwlong: Amazing – NES Emulator built in Javascript: http://bit.ly/4YJggU #
- Anki is the coolest free language learning tool I’ve found. It’s a spaced repetition system (smart flashcards). http://bit.ly/4nYlCX #
- it’s not just a language learning tool, actually. you can use it for memorizing anything… good for retention. #anki #
- @nalohopkinson dons aviator shades; jabs own cornea with sunglasses’ earpiece; sniffles. #dangerismynickname in reply to nalohopkinson #
- “And I go on pursuing through the hours / Another tiger, the beast not found in verse.” — J.L. Borges, The Other Tiger #
- “En buscar por el tiempo de la tarde / El otro tigre, el que no está en el verso.” — J.L. Borges, El Otro Tigre #
- @nicoletaylor28 what does the long jacket make you into? in reply to nicoletaylor28 #
- @nicoletaylor28 also: one-upped conversation hearts (is that what they’re called?) : http://bit.ly/cTlzEO in reply to nicoletaylor28 #
- @nicoletaylor28 at least you didn’t get one that said “check your attic” (it’s either from an overenthusiastic fan or a family of squirrels) in reply to nicoletaylor28 #
- RT @scalzi: While Amazon and Macmillan fight, authors are getting hurt. They could use some support: http://bit.ly/9dQvki #
- haiti is off trending topics, replaced by: “nick jonas live” & “who i am,” the nick jonas solo album. humanity, take my gun & badge; i quit. #
- ok, now it’s back. #haiti #whew #
- webster’s new world spanish grammar handbook is an interesting book. just rules & examples & exceptions, one after another. #nerd #language #
- hey, it’s james joyce’s birthday today. and judith viorst’s. #
- http://bit.ly/8YgD7u arriana is cruel, but lovely. (in my head, arriana looks like this: http://bit.ly/9YZaUr ) (via jjjjound.com) #
- @shayrayunc why not? in reply to shayrayunc #
- durham schools closed again. no o’dark-thirty tutoring. #broke #fullyrested #
- @nicoletaylor28 @brittanyebaker twitter doesnt make you feel better about yourself, it makes you feel worse about other people #welcomewagon in reply to nicoletaylor28 #
- “Not building a wall but making a brick.” — eno / schmidt #
- i really hope this liquid glass isn’t the asbestos of the future, because it looks so cooool http://bit.ly/dpL5Zo #SCIENCE #
- “If you don’t have some kind of kit for capturing ideas … you’re doing it wrong” @warrenellis http://bit.ly/cBvJY2 (if you write, read it) #
- @joe_hill “Oh. Thought you were mom.” #5sadderwords in reply to joe_hill #
- @shayrayunc i haven’t read portrait yet. sorry you didn’t like it, anyway. i like his short stories ok, and ulysses is pretty good so far. in reply to shayrayunc #
- @shayrayunc (congrats on getting married, by the way.) in reply to shayrayunc #
- 2 hour delay tomorrow, durham county schools. the roads remain bone dry. #
- oh man. oh man. oh man. i just found audio of borges giving the charles eliot norton lectures, the series at harvard in 1967 and 1968. #YES #
- the lecture compilation is called “this craft of verse” and it’s borges talking for four hours about what books he likes & why #swoon #swoon #
- (the transcripts are also available, but this is borges himself, speaking english, laughing and making jokes, recorded live at harvard.) #
- borges was blind by the time he gave these lectures so he gave them without notes. he died the year i was born & we share the same birthday. #
- i guess i’m what i’m saying is: BORGES BORGES BORGES BORGES BORGES BORGES BORGES BORGES BORGES BORGES BORGES BORGES BORGES BORGES BORGES. #
- @D_MacPherson The Dark Knight Returns 2: When Batman Met Photoshop. #ohwait #darkknightstrikesagain in reply to D_MacPherson #
- i want my book covers to be designed to feel like this, with this level of skill and artistry http://bit.ly/ccogN1 via @tofermoran #
- the more i think about it, the dumber it seems: why are so many book covers hackneyed, homely, & cliché? #
- RT @GLValentine: I will never have to write a response to anything again in my life: http://bit.ly/8g3Rke #
- that, ladies & gents, is a writer RT @paolobacigalupi: 10,400 words today. 28,000 words in four days. Draft completed. I feel… content #
- i’m pretty sure the inner membranes of my ribcage aren’t supposed to be crawling over one another and vibrating. #science #
- @dieffenderfer yeah, often my notes are much more intelligent than my actual writing. unfortunately. in reply to dieffenderfer #
- @mkazoo i invented a drink i’m calling “heartattack beverage” made from an energy shot, an energy drink, & splashes of vodka. poor choices. in reply to mkazoo #
- @tofermoran a dolorous trombone backed by the saddest oboes in vienna. in reply to tofermoran #
- @mattfraction Green Beret #1stDraftPrinceSongs in reply to mattfraction #
- “No, hardly, but seeing he had been born
In a half-savage country, out of date;
Bent resolutely on wringing lilies from the acorn” — pound # - @schy i want one of these antelope so badly. no, i want a whole posse of them. in reply to schy #
- @mkazoo i would never offer that business to another human being unless i knew they were hunter s thompson reincarnated. or spider jerusalem in reply to mkazoo #
- today was massive success. breakfast with @lehresman, donuts, bookstore, bought two fresh notebooks, & helped my parents move furniture. #
- and hm, now i taste blood. #
- cut the fluffiness out of the covers of this notebook (because, really, notebook covers do not need to be stuffed with foam). now writing. #
- even if this novel isn’t brilliant at least i can say my prose is better for the notebook than having its face cut up #standards #theyarelow #
- i just signed up for goodreads, then lost motivation to input my stack of just-read books. they are within arms-length http://bit.ly/bKCTEp #
- sleep and me: one of these things does not like the other. #
- @apopa it’s sleep that don’t like me. unrequited & all that. in reply to apopa #
- @apopa yikes. i just wanted a employer/employee relationship; i feel that sleep has overstepped proper workplace behaviour. in reply to apopa #
- reading the selected poems of ezra pound. it is, as they say, quite good, though a bit opaque to me at times. #
- also http://bit.ly/8g3Rke sleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep #
- ezra pound reading “sestina: altaforte.” does he sound like scottie from lady & the tramp? http://bit.ly/dB4icT vs http://bit.ly/clIlBb #
- saw a man holding a 5 gallon bucket arguing with a man pushing a wheelbarrow. #
- @nicoletaylor28 @gralinnaea brown chicken; brown cow. in reply to nicoletaylor28 #
- Watching the super bowl. Startling number of commercials trying to address what attributes define masculinity. #
- Woo saints #
- Finished observing the superb owl. (borrowed joke, of course) lifting my glass to shauna. #
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