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2009

December 47

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October 53

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August 77

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June 77

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March 106

February 106

January 80

2008

December 23

November 103

October 116

September 95

August 112

July 133

June 90

May 105

April 96

March 98

February 62

January 46

2007

December 32

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October 12

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January

Standing in line at a wine sale

Really? It’s come to this? Standing in an endless line, half-heartedly loathing myself and...

Halloween Week: Stigmata (1999)

In which I get to write about scary movies! Thanks for the opportunity, Chad. filmosophy: ...

Read twice and then once more, even if you’re busy. It is just that good. ...

“Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.”
— For thirty six months and some...

sometimesagreatnotion: A Secret Life - Stephen Dunn Why you need to have one is not much more...

“Fireflies” - Owl City So the other night I took a long late night drive around the...

“Time After Time” - Eva Cassidy So I heard this song in class tonight and it almost...

“I wanted to go home, and for the first time since we’d...”
— It was too frantic of a week...

Fake Dinner Party Conversations

tesslynch: Christopher Walken: Have you ever thought. About? Adoption! Tess Lynch: Thought about...

Happy 400th Birthday, Dear Telescope NPR, October 19, 2009 ...

“If the only prayer you said in your whole life was...”
— Meister Eckhart Oh...

“The thing that is hardest to accept about the passage of...”
— John Irving (via bblove) We...

“A man walked up— it’s 2am mind you—, he picks up a grocery...”
— Life is hard. Here is...

So...

I’m wearing a mock turtleneck today for the first time since the early 90’s. Back then, my mom could...

Marchelle is cooking me black bean soup, mulled wine and...

Laundry Room - The Avett Brothers So I lied – I’m not done with this album yet and I think you’ll...

“He continued to shoot ducks from the snowy sky, and felt...”
— Currently reading...

Roller derby is happening - along with a hearty side of mini...

High Fidelity (2000)

So Chad, the editor of Filmosophy, was kind enough to provide me an opportunity to ramble on about...

A Mind Like Water

I had this terrifically geeky conversation with a coworker this morning about methods of increasing...

So I walk away from my desk for 5...

When I get back, my computer is gone and there is a ransom note in its place. My coworkers took it...

hipsterdiet: Passion Pit Great picture, Will. You totally...

“The Perfect Space” – The Avett Brothers Ok, I promise I’m going to get over this kick eventually....

GPOYW - a day late and a dollar short edition.

Three things I could tell you all:

1.) It’s an odd time isn’t it, this fall? Transition and nostalgia and growth and freedom. I fall...

Photo from the Star Tribune. This is yesterday, pretty well...

hipsterdiet: Jolie Holland - Springtime Can Kill You Long live the Fall. I really like this...

The Avett Brothers – Head Full of Doubt / Road Full of Promise When nothing is owed or deserved or...

If I could, I would take your hand and pull you through this...

Have you read this yet? The Avett Brothers’...

Avett Brothers - “I and Love and You” So it’s my pleasure to inform you that I...

My sister and I took a long drive through an Edward Hopper...

It was a beautiful, lucent morning for getting up early. One...

You are tired, (I think) Of the always puzzle of living...

Cecilia - Simon & Garfunkel When I was a kid, I loved this song - this whole album really -...

“I think nobody owns the land until their dead are in it”
— Joan Didion This is not the...

Oh how nostalgic does this make you?! Found these in a...

walpaper: State of Love and Trust Pearl Jam Oh, how I loved this song.

“Fruits of My Labor” - Lucinda Williams Today I told Meaghan that fall might kill me. ...

Oh, so it is Wednesday, so it is.

“How strange it is. We have these deep terrible lingering...”
— Don DeLillo (via thingsgohazy,...

“I saw your best friend on the street…I wondered how...”
— everybody’s makin love...

In between, In betwixt

be·twixt (b-twkst) ]]> adv. & prep. Between. Idiom: betwixt and between In an...

Rendezvous

Not for these lovely blooms that prank your chambers did I come. Indeed, I could have loved you...

hitrecordjoe: TRAIN NOW LEAVING ~ (click through to watch...

“But instead of dying, she got sick. She threw up. Her...”
— Reading and rereading...

I’ll admit to a secret ego in one arena: An unbridled...

“I drove home with the windows down… I thought of how...”
— mills: A Love Letter How...

“All the Best” - John Prine Yeah, it’s probably about time for this song.

“I had tucked myself away in the corner at the table by the...”
— the beautiful and the...

“The second someone mentioned Battlestar I knew that it would...”
— My friend Amanda, who I hate.

The story of Leonard’s Salvation Mountain is coming,...