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“I never viewed money as being “my money” I always saw it as...”
– Louis C.K. on splitting four ways the $1 million proceeds from the online sale of his Beacon Theater show: Paying for production costs, rewarding his staff with bonuses, keeping $220,000 for himself and his fam and giving the remaining $280,000 to nonprofits (including the awesome charity: water).
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“My dad loved Christmas Vacation more than most people. By that I mean he loved...”
– a bright wall in a dark room.: National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation (1989)
I’ve got a special place in my heart for this essay.
Merry Christmas from me and the Griswolds, everybody.
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“I want to take back at least half of the “I love you’s,”...”
– R is for Recant. From the Lover’s Dictionary by David Levithan. Which I devoured in three bath sessions so long all the heat picked up and walked away from the water long before I noticed. I just stayed on, marveling at how Levithan can make you feel so much given so little information. Which...
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“It’s okay. You are loved. You are loved even if some people don’t love you. Even...”
– Oh Sugar. Really knowing this might be the start of everything. Let’s say it over and over and over until it is memorized. Until it rings us inside and out like watermarks, like shadows, like echos, like gold. Like dowries for our lovers and our children.
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"Universes" by Frederick Seidel →
ecantwell:
UNIVERSES Think of the suckers on the tentacles Without the tentacles. A honeycomb Of space writhing in the dark. Time deforming it, time itself deformed. Fifteen billion light-years later a president Of the United States gives the Gettysburg Address. Two minutes. The solar system Star beams down on him. Other special stars express themselves, Not shy at all, particles Of powder...
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“What Nicole and Jonas both went through in school was unconscionable,’’ says...”
– Led by the child who simply knew “The twin boys were identical in every way but one. Wyatt was a girl to the core, and now lives as one, with the help of a brave, loving family and a path-breaking doctor’s care.”
This story in the Boston Globe is brilliant and triumphant and kills me....
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The Los Angeles Diaries, Issue 1: It's hard to...
Man. I almost don’t even want to tell you this story and yet, I can’t not. Nay sayers, elderly grumps and blog haters take note!: The metamorphosis is complete. I am now fully the shameful result of America’s addiction to oversharing.
So last night we were hanging out on the couch, surely watching something stupid and I fell asleep. When C woke me up to adjourn to the bedroom...
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“Nothing in the cry
of cicadas suggests they
are about to die”
– Bashō, trans. Hamill (via yesyes)
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Alec Baldwin kicked off LA flight for playing... →
Mostly, I just really want to see a screen shot of the game. Please let this rebellious stand be in defense of “quixotry” and “qanat” and “azotise” and not just my pedestrian “za” and “bloat” and “crud.”
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