May 2011
2 posts
kill a man, wave a flag. →
we played a game after the barbeque: write sentences together. they had to follow a certain structure.
these were the best ones.
When she said “sparkling, not still,” I thought she meant she was getting restless.
When he said it’s almost over, I thought he meant the day.
April 2011
7 posts
best song line ever, no. 11
“Everybody wanna know what my Achilles heel is. Love. I don’t get enough of it.”
-Jay-Z, Monster
what makes you feel safe? what makes you feel... →
will they ever be the same thing? should they be?
“there is a place where truth and mercy have met together; where justice and...”
– psalm 85:10
the supreme court finds it constitutional to use... →
yoga is good for the soul.
today’s quote:
“Look at every path closely and deliberately. … The only question is: does this path have a heart? If it does, then it is a good path. If it doesn’t, then it is of no use.”
-carlos castenada
“I knew I liked you for a reason,” you tell me while you drink whiskey there and I lie under blankets here.
How many reasons do you need?
March 2011
8 posts
elected representative says that Planned... →
sometimes I am literally speechless.
More black men in prison system today than were... →
ay!
this makes my heart creak and groan.
Just saw The Lincoln Lawyer. It’s about a sleazy criminal defense lawyer who gets ensnared in his manipulative client’s web of evil. The true villain in the movie is attorney-client privilege
The entire plot was like the wrong answer to an MPRE question..
a republican superior court judge in orange county... →
maybe we should listen.
January 2009
1 post
“One man’s vulgarity is another’s lyric.”
– Justice Harlan, U.S. Supreme Court, in Cohen v. California
November 2008
3 posts
“The freedom to marry has long been recognized as one of the vital personal rights essential to the orderly pursuit of happiness by free men. Marriage is one of the ‘basic civil rights of man,’ fundamental to our very existence and survival. To deny this fundamental freedom on so unsupportable a basis as … classifications so directly subversive of the principle of equality...
“Man is now the instrument which genius wields at its will; it touches a chord of...”
– Francis Wayland, presciently, in 1837
best song line ever, no. 10
“I say, ‘Revolution, when he gon’ come?’ Yes he came, in a way that may seem strange. Only through chaos will we ever see change.”
-Common, in the Ozomatli song “Embrace the Chaos”
October 2008
8 posts
I have so much I want to write, but I’m sitting here, anxious, terrified, just waiting for the world to go splat.
“I love America. Just because I think gay dudes should be allowed to adopt kids...”
– Tina Fey as Liz Lemon, 30 Rock
best song line ever, no. 9
“This shit is bananas.”
-Gwen Stefani, “Hollaback Girl”
“First Amendment protections do not apply only to those who speak clearly, whose...”
– Judge PIerre Laval, Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals
best song line ever, nos. 7 and 8
Then:
“Come join the youth and beauty brigade.”
-The Decemberists, “California One Youth and Beauty Brigade”
And now:
“All I want is one more chance to be young and wild and free.”
-Stars, “Reunion”
best song line ever, no. 6
(This one is in honor of Drew.)
“And I am nothing of a builder. But here I dreamt I was an architect. And I built this balustrade to keep you home, to keep you safe from the outside world. But the angles and the corners, even though my work is unparalleled, they never seem to meet. The structure fell about our feet, and we were free to go.”
-The Decemberists, “Here I Dreamt I...
best song line ever, no. 4
“I thought I was a fool for no one. But oh baby I’m a fool for you.”
-Muse, “Supermassive Black Hole”
September 2008
7 posts
Somehow, like a warm broad thumbprint, my year in Chicago just smudged out everything that had been so finely carved before.
the day was gray and melancholy… - m4w (dominick’s n. of thorndale)
Date: 2008-09-15, 9:11PM CDT
…but somewhere, on the north side of chicago, the prettiest girl in the world is making a cake.
no way i could stop and tell you why that made me so happy.
probably take me a while just to figure it out myself. but it did…
Member of the FCA in Evil Olive saturday night - m4w...
here is a secret:
Sometimes, when I’m feeling dreamy and lonely and happysad (the kind of mood in which a rainy day and Sufjan Stevens feels appropriate), I read the Missed Connections on Chicago Craigslist. The writers are all so genuine and encumbered, and this one instant – the publicprivate writing of an experience of a missed connection with a stranger in a public place – exists so completely in the tiny...
best song line ever, no. 3
“Do you remember joking around in our apartment on Avenue D? ‘Can you imagine how many paper coffee cups would have to change their design following a fantastical reversal of the New York skyline?’ It was a joke…. at the time.”
-Ani DiFranco, “Self-Evident”
heart land
a piece of fiction, from 2006.
This happened before we ever slept together.
This happened when the sun was hot and hidden, sweltering and sweaty over the baked ground of America’s heartland, over the fields of wheat and corn and strawberries, dark-skinned migrant workers hunched low and sunburnt over the harvest.
This happened when the road stretched out in front of us for miles, a thin red...
August 2008
4 posts
best song line ever, no. 2
“The time between meeting and finally leaving is sometimes called falling in love.”
-Lisa Loeb, “Falling In Love”
“go very fast. be first. use your horn. scare them.”
– an Italian taxi driver on how to survive the streets of Rome, relayed as advice on how to get ahead in life by the dean of admissions at Berkeley Law
best song line ever, no. 1
“Even though I haven’t seen you in years, yours is a funeral I’d fly to from anywhere.”
-“These Few Presidents,” Why?
July 2008
3 posts
“I think you’re one of the greatest humans alive. And, that’s just me...”
– my father, talking to his only daughter
