On "All I knew with any certainty about my poems is that they were not as good as I wanted them to be"
Ahhhh Simic. "Here come my night thoughts/ On crutches,/ Returning from studying the heavens." SO GOOD.
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On Moms
I saw my mom TWO DAYS AGO and this makes me miss her. She's going on a birthday trip today with two friends...to a goat farm.
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On Lana Del Rey, Little [Silver] Riding [Vampire]?! Perfect.
@sudden_eyes Orange (or well, Tangerine Tango) is Pantone's color of the year, so it makes sense that it's showing up a lot.
PS. The first time I wrote this comment, I typo'd "Pantene," hahaaghhh.
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On Overboard 4-Eva
@Olivia2.0 Yeah, admittedly late 80s heading into early 90s...but, the opening scene in the movie where they're all dancing in the nightclub to "True Faith" is so 1987! <3 you New Order.
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On Overboard 4-Eva
I feel like the Rich-People-in-the-80s discussion is incomplete without a mention of American Psycho.
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On The Patient is Non-Compliant
Yep, this happened to me. It felt particularly absurd because I wasn't sexually active during the year since my last pap. I had to go through with it, but luckily I got it done by a particularly cool nurse practitioner who told me I didn't have to come back for another 3 years unless I wanted to.
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On Amusingly Horrible Things I Have Said: The Bracket
@ginalouise Just reading it made the bottom of my stomach drop out. The Worst, seriously. Even more so, because it doesn't seem like it was a mistake, a drunken blurt. It was just a thoughtless, cruel thing to say.
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On [Maybe] Good Books That Defined You
All through high school, I read Rats Saw God by Rob Thomas obsessively. It was a good coming of age story.
As a kid, I was hugely into Running Out of Time by Margaret Peterson Haddix, Stella Street and Don't Pat the Wombat by Elizabeth Honey, The Memoirs of a Bookbat by Kathryn Lasky, anything by Daniel Pinkwater.
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On [Maybe] Good Books That Defined You
@elysian fields Ahhhh, ALL OF THESE.
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On Look, We're Gonna Talk About the Gatsby Trailer Now
@HeyThatsMyBike Yeah, I really liked him in Catch Me If You Can. But that was TEN YEARS AGO, which seems crazy, but I think it's really been that long since he's done a movie that has some minor aspect of lightness in it instead of 100% tragic brow-furrowing.