December 2009
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http://www.theawl.com/2009/12/the-end-of-the-00s-ma... →
i kept thinking yes! yes!! YES! as i read this.
i was walking home from the store with my milk and rolling rock and peanut butter and saw a paper on the ground, abandoned. hoped it was the sunday times (it wasn’t) and thought of arizona. and thought. and thought.
SCENE: family christmas party in a community room in an apartment building in williamsburg.
GRANDFATHER ENTERS.
me: hey grandpa! how are you?
grandfather: well, i’m waiting for doomsday. there’s nothing else left!
me: [laughs] grandpa, you’re awesome.
long lost uncle: pops, let’s get you some wine.
wind chills in the twenties: it’s been described as an arctic blast (by fox five news, specifically.) and i’m walking home thinking, colder please.
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“In bed that night I invented a special drain that would be underneath every...”
– Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close, Jonathan Safran Foer
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me: my cousin's wife defriended me on facebook. I HOPE IT'S BECAUSE SHE THINKS I'M A HEATHEN AND JEZEBEL.
chris: well, aren't you?
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“In a rare show of restraint, I do no even once attempt here to physically...”
– John Darnielle on “Noctifer Birmingham”, Ghana liner notes.
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