May 2013
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“Nobody can guarantee that it’s going to be okay, but — and I don’t...”
– Allie of Hyperbole and a Half, in her post today about depression. I was never a super regular Hyperbole and a Half reader, but this, and the previous post about depression, is so right on.
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“An article last Thursday about Williamsburg, Brooklyn, erroneously included...”
– A correction for a recent New York Times article about hipsters in Brooklyn. I love the rueful tone, like if only By Brooklyn did in fact carry dandelion and burdock soda. Then things might be different. (And neither would the correction have run.)
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“Let me know if you have any questions about heavy metal or Norse mythology.”
– An actual thing an actual person said to me. Oh, Portland.
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April 2013
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“[A]n accompanying feature transcribed incorrectly a comment from Callie Khouri,...”
– This New York Times Magazine correction is one of the funnier corrections I’ve read in a while.
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I-84 west
I left Boise at three, hoping to make it back to Portland before dark. I drove away from the scrubby brown mountains, the Treasure Valley dipping out of sight behind the southern ridge. A few tumbleweeds drifted over the highway, and I tried not to think that it might mean something. My camera is broken, so during my visit I didn’t take pictures of the pretty white petals falling off of trees, or...
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“April was too lonely a month to spend alone. In April, everyone around me looked...”
– Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood.
Dude gets me, as always. This lonely weekend is tough. I couldn’t sleep last night—tossed and turned, then gave up on sleeping and watched a movie and TV, made a cup of tea. I went to get Skittles in the middle of the night. It’s not like me. Now I...
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I drove to Boise today, my first long, solo highway drive in quite a while. Much of the drive was really beautiful—I drove through the Columbia River Gorge, and the high desert of Eastern Oregon holds its own charms. I am terrified of semi-trucks, though, which makes interstate driving a little harrowing. I passed one truck, which had a sticker reading:
My life consists of:
On-ramps
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WatchI love Before Sunrise and Before Sunset, and I am beyond excited for Before Midnight, which comes out May 24th. The trailer was released today—it look so good! I saw Before Sunrise when I was twenty-three, which is the age the characters were. I so identified with the curiosity and idealism and closely-held beliefs they both had. It’s so interesting to watch Jesse and Céline’s...
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March 2013
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“There’s no reason you shouldn’t be able to navigate around [Chicago]. We should...”
– Ernest Wilkins, for the RedEye. I love this gratuitous and very accurate ATL shoutout in a piece about things Chicagoans should know how to do.
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WatchGirls x Spring Breakers. Awesome possum.
I am totally stoked to see Spring Breakers, mostly because it was filmed in the Tampa Bay/Sarasota area, with some scenes filmed at my alma mater. Also, someone tell me what we’re supposed to do until Girls season three starts? My Sunday nights are so tragic now.
