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“This will sound cheesy, but every single one of these stories, as I was writing it, was the hardest story I’d ever written. Every single one felt like a failure, felt lifeless, felt fraudulent at advanced stages. And in typically perverse fashion, every single one also felt the truest.” –Nam Le on the stories inContinue reading “the hardest/the truest”

When the sun finally came out this weekend, I went with my father, who was visiting, to the new edition of Brooklyn Flea under the Brooklyn Bridge. Afterward, we passed a small farmers market, where I treated myself to fresh strawberries, asparagus, and shelling peas. There is a late afternoon time of day, in everyContinue reading “shelling”

This is Professor. He’s my first cat. Honestly: part of my motivation to adopt a cat now in my life is my thinking that if I had a cat, I would stay home more, and if I stayed home more, I would write more. Yes to the staying home part. But while at home, wholeContinue reading “cat”

this is artwork by my friend suzanne goldenberg. she takes thread and magazines and boxes and paper and glitter and things and makes things which are incredible. i rode my bike to her open studio today, which was part of Bushwick Open Studios & Art Festival. her studio was the most wonderful little box ofContinue reading “art studio”

This is one of only two photos I took in Tulum, Mexico. These are my feet, in a hammock, on the porch of our beach front room at Nueva Vida de Ramiro, at dusk on the Caribbean Sea. For five days, I turned off my iphone and detoxed from phone calls, gchat, twitter, facebook, e-mail,Continue reading “mexico”

i had grand plans of writing/drafting/blogging tonight. but alas: this is all i did. word count = 0

-worked a tiny tiny bit on my other blog-listened to this song over and over and over-started reading short comic stories predicting the future:-will put on a dress on friday-will see my brother on saturday-will walk on sunday word count: 253

-pretended i’m a choreographer-watched this equal parts disturbing and hilarious video of some poor kid after the dentist-seriously contemplated adopting this cat word count: 1,120

-phone calls-rice and beans-installed tweetdeck (geeking out ensued)-read a YA novel about cuban/latina/lesbian/genderqueer/trannie/black/fat-positive teenagers in miami word count: 1,454

-went to rocketship for free comic book day-realized that love and rockets is still alive-read ariel schrag for the first time since college (not free)-brontez of gravy train!!!! + osa of new blood + crystal of partyline = the younger lovers @ cakeshop-there was much moshing. i had much coca cola. word count: 0