But then people do care and it feels like a miracle but then you have to go back to thinking no one cares. Otherwise you end up like the MFA prof who has nothing left to write about because he’s writing for CV lines
My most contrarian point: no one is waiting for your creative work. No one cares. Writing as if no one cares or will ever care is probably the most liberating craft idea ever and it creates better work.
I finished the first volume of On the Calculation of Volume and found it trippy and cool.
I am not watching the SOTU tonight. I have other ways to torture myself. But I do predict it will be verrrrryyyy long, very strange, and with some time really trashing on John Roberts
An old public school veteran used to tell me: if they didn’t throw a chair at you and you didn’t throw anything at them, it’s not a bad day
Recent CBS News news:
1. Anderson Cooper leaves 60 Minutes after two decades
2. Stephen Colbert reveals network won’t let him air interview with Dem
3. Producer says politics dictating what airs
4. Owner’s bid for CNN parent back on the table.
5. Not firing Epstein pal.
Oh no! Hoping for some speedy fixing!
They’re taking kids from Minnesota and sending them to detention camps. They’re shooting American citizens in the street and locking investigators out of the crime scenes. The world is watching what happens next.
Forget about the jobs you’ve had what are five classes you took in college:
1) The “Other” American Renaissance
2) French 401: Advanced Grammar and Composition
3) Ethnographic Field Methods
4) Victorian Literature and New Historicism
5) Anglo-Saxon and Medieval English Literature
Did you see La Cazadora? That also was amazing!
Extra Geography was shattering! So good
If there is a poetic experience better than reading the 1980s poetry of Jorie Graham I don’t know it. Just one hit after another
You just need to find the right blend of microplastics
Ann calls this sort of period “being out of the box”
I think she was like “I’m too hot for this loser, do you want him?” to all of her friends who secretly hate her
My brother was supposed to bring in the Care Bears movie in 1986 but snuck in Peewee’s Big Adventure. The teachers were in the hallway chatting and never noticed or cared and a classmate of his was terrified by Large Marge and his mother yelled at our mother. She thought he was a wimp
It’s funny how there are pick me academics still being sanctimonious nerds as if Trump weren’t president and knowledge widely mocked. Give yourself medals when you’ve actually won a fight against the people trying to destroy everything we do. It’s no fun being the genius of the scrapheap
Being patriotic about turkeys is our thing. Shouldn’t he be trying to legislate mince pies?
It doesn’t hurt at all! They have magic super Novocain the worst part was the smell of the rubber and having to watch HGTV for so long. Also it aches a bit after
If the sandwich don’t split, you must acquit
It’s so funny even if that sweet treat is $20 a week what would $1040 in a year really do toward owning a house? That’s not even a full months rent for most people
I think when creative writing professors reach the point when they are too in academe that they can only ever write autofiction about midlife crisis creative writing professors going through banal and irritating situations of their own making that they should be sent on some kind of spirit journey
The democrats should make an instant promise to demolish anything he builds. Who would ever want to have an event in the Trump ballroom?
And they’re so pristine on the outside and then so gross on the inside
As a society we had to give up a lot of institutional security and climate stability for drastically tastier table grapes
In other The Shining news, the opera adaptation is phenomenal
Avital Ronell's (I know I know but still) book Loser Sons explains so much of our current predicament.
Canceled Disney Plus! Can get no joy from cowardly media.
Silly Jimmy Kimmel. He should have just called for all homeless people to be killed and he’d still have a job.
Also you can only read War and Peace in winter
