something about this just makes me feel old.
the morning after october was pretty damned interesting, wasn't it? so warm when i first stepped outside today, the sky a dull brilliant yellow-gray with the glow of last night's festivities still lingering in the air. the lack of sun gave everything a hue more befitting autumn. work kept me inside for a few hours but before i knew it i was out there again, still impossibly warm with this one-day-only hint of generous november sweetness. and wind. i ran into tina and our conversation was on the verge of bringing up what time of year it is and what that means, but then it was over.
i celebrate the end of october now, yearly, as a new beginning in the most paradoxical of settings. when i got home around half past three the wind was still blustery and yellow leaves swirled around my car as i found a place to park. it gets colder from here on, i'm reminded, and it won't be much longer that i'm followed home by sweet swirling friendly leaves, but a comparison at this point can be made to the mere remnants of storms. in less than a month, a year since blue-glow sky and closing time. the world looks different this time and the whole house is singing in a different key.
i celebrate the end of october now, yearly, as a new beginning in the most paradoxical of settings. when i got home around half past three the wind was still blustery and yellow leaves swirled around my car as i found a place to park. it gets colder from here on, i'm reminded, and it won't be much longer that i'm followed home by sweet swirling friendly leaves, but a comparison at this point can be made to the mere remnants of storms. in less than a month, a year since blue-glow sky and closing time. the world looks different this time and the whole house is singing in a different key.
previous posts
- short refrains for the end of october
- saturday moment of hypnotic talking heads cover
- still a little closer each day
- those darn hobgoblins are everywhere
- you do what you do best, not what's best to do
- oh, right, it's october
- criticism
- the problem with my writing, summarised
- human voices wake us
- back in your head
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also me
- city lines magazine
- twitter (annus_mirabilis)
- ashley (almost a love song)
- kayleigh (i [verb] you)
- nicole (raise your hopeful voice)
- alli (what an odd-sized explosion.)
- haven kimmel's blog
- sara benincasa
- wonkette
- i blame the patriarchy
- who is ioz?
- a softer world
- toothpaste for dinner
- natalie dee
- married to the sea
- dinosaur comics
- xkcd
- terror island
- the perry bible fellowship
- cat and girl
- björk
- the decemberists
- the weakerthans
- sigur rós
- stephin merritt
- norfolk & western
- the essex green
- of montreal
- elephant 6
- arts&crafts
- laura veirs
- mary timony
- cbc
- alt weeklies
- al jazeera english
- george galloway
- marxists internet archive
- world socialist web site
- the pinky show
- quotidiana
- exit mundi
- the millennial abyss
- the revealer
- killing the buddha
- the brick testament
- colbert nation
- mcsweeney's internet tendency
- the brazen head
- iq infinity: the unknown james joyce
- ulysses by james joyce
- the leonard cohen files
- only revolutions
- luminarium
- geoffrey chaucer hath a blog
- haven kimmel
- purity of heart
- banana yoshimoto
- jeanette winterson
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about
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me: aspiring writer, 'music nerd,' seeker of beautiful moments, college student, armchair theologian, nominal quaker, 'the diet coke of emo with no caffeine,' eclectic left-winger, and generally someone who thinks about things too much.
this: unedited, uninhibited, and uninteresting thoughts, nebulous stream-of-consciousness ramblings of memory, inside jokes, obscure references, emotional paroxysms, and slices of life. sometimes there are pictures.
what people are saying about me
'...something entirely different from anybody i've ever known.'
- krystin
'...a nice boy.'
- laura
'...a maoist!'
- greg
'...elevate[s] emotional self-destructiveness to an art form.'
- greg
'...my favorite pixie.'
- lizzie
'...a damn good conversationalist.'
- kelly
'...blue-raspberry [pie]! or or maybe cranberry raisin.'
- becky
'i feel like a wide eyed kid in the socialist candy store...and [he's] the clerk.'
- christine
'...far too sensible and perceptive to be straight.'
- catherine
'...not british.'
- catherine
'...would have made a good medieval monk. one of the non-crooked ones.'
- catherine
'...should have been born a dolphin.'
- elizabeth
ATOM 0.3
'life was just a series of things i'd read about coming true.'
-- michelle tea, the chelsea whistle
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