February 2012
8 posts
So Far, Ottawa
I was expecting a weird house. It sounded weird; my cousin said the place was sixty years old, that it had originally been tiny and that it had been added on to 12 times, that there wasnt a square inch not covered in art. Instead it turns out to be beautiful. Full of light, full of art, full of unusual furniture and hidden passageways (I discovered a tiny mezzanine above the office this afternoon,...
January 2012
2 posts
wish john steinbeck was my dad →
December 2011
2 posts
November 2011
11 posts
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October 2011
23 posts
Talking To Ultra-Marathon Runner Ray Zahab
HIM: I want my girls to grow up making confident choices in their lives, knowing at 14 years of age what it took me until 40 to figure out.
ME: And what was that?
HIM: That life is… the old saying… there’s so many old sayings, but life is what we make it. You need to, if you have dreams, you need to reach for them because no one’s going to hand them to you and...
saved for later putting on fridge or stove
i was looking at you - and you were joking and laughing and i thought that you are going to be alright and you’ll find someone amazing because you’re really lovablethat’s a very weird thing to say, right?
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Wailea Ike, shaky shaky.
those things below are links
THE SOCIAL CONTRACT OR PRINCIPLES OF POLITICAL... →
Urban land policies for the uninitiatied →
What Was That Poem?
BY DAVID MCGIMPSEY
POETRY FROM THE NOVEMBER 2011 MAGAZINE My mother asked me, What was that poem? It was Longfellow’s “My Lost Youth,” I think. The answer was Longfellow, often enough, even though she never liked Evangeline. I talked to my mother on my cellphone outside a grocery store in Philadelphia. She asked me what I was buying, Was it dear?, and if I now liked football more than baseball....
Another Not Joke
For Immediate Release: October 4, 2011 * Please include in your listings / announcements Harold Green Jewish Theatre Company presents CIRCUMCISE ME! A cutting edge comedy Written and performed by Yisrael Campbell Directed by Sam Gold “The funniest Roman Catholic Orthodox Jewish comedian in the world!” Stephen Colbert David Eisner and Avery Saltzman, co-Artistic Directors of the...
September 2011
37 posts