April 2012
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February 2012
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brilliancymedley: Well ah giss you notissed how ah aint bin around. Podcastin’s a funny bizness. Hard sometimes. But here ah am back in the saddel agin. Hope this halps: Sluefoot Joe, Mrs. Lena Bare Turbyfill, George Washington Phillips, Rita Abatzi, Hélène Baillargeon, Pig & Slim, the Ukrainska Orchestra Pawla Humeniuka, Charlie Poole, n a wholl bunch more! Get it rot chere!
Feb 8th
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January 2012
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Jan 21st
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Keep hoping machine running. →
For the new year, I’ve decided to revive some old habits—foremost among them the act of writing on paper. This is not that. But in my experience writing just begets more writing, so it’s likely that…
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Jan 3rd
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December 2011
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Computers, cocktails. →
Last night D and I watched Colossus: The Forbin Project (1970), a charming technothriller in which a Scientist makes a supercomputer, the US government hooks up all its missiles to the…
Dec 22nd
Dreamin'. →
Typically transparent anxiety dreams all night: university presses have started up for-fee self-publishing lines to supplement flagging sales, and, having no word on the status of my manuscript in…
Dec 20th
What babies are for. →
This is a question that, as you might imagine, has been on my mind lately. Fortunately, this excellent TED talk by Alison Gopnik has largely answered the question for me. In short, babies are for…
Dec 13th
Give a dog a bone. →
D bought Daisy this gigantic, meaty, brontosaurus-sized bone at the pet store this morning. She’s been working on it all morning. She didn’t even want to abandon it to take her walk. Then, a few…
Dec 12th
treats →
Dec 12th
Here we are. →
Remember that time I got pregnant and stopped updating the Procrastination Salon? Since firing this thing up, I’ve managed to procrastinate fairly regularly through all kinds of things—dissertating,…
Dec 11th
November 2011
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“Fiction is a kind of compassion-generating machine that saves us from sloth. Is...”
– George Saunders (Thank you, wait-what? & devilduck)
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October 2011
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history →
Oct 31st
ListenI love Bon Iver’s cover of The...
Oct 24th
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my aunt kathryn →
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Oct 9th
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sulking →
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September 2011
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i am in a movies →
Sep 19th
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Sep 18th
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Sep 16th
My lazy unconscious. →
Last night I dreamt I had the baby and it was a girl and it was evil. It was like two days old and it wouldn’t breastfeed and it could talk and it kept demanding pizza. I couldn’t get it to keep its…
Sep 15th
this is rolling →
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August 2011
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Aug 28th
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Tipey typey type. →
You will never guess where I am, so do not even try. I am on an heirloom pig farm in the middle of nowhere, New York. My being here is due to my parents, who, in addition to bringing me forth into…
Aug 15th
How my husband ruined my unhappiness. →
So D has this theory about a certain trend in representations of hardscrabble American life that he has called “miserablism.” It is best articulated in his review for the Arkansas Times of the…
Aug 6th
Aug 6th
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