January 2011
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monday night is the best night
me: GAH I DON'T DESERVE GRAD SCHOOL WITH THIS ATTITUDE PROBLEM
friend: oh, shut up
friend: nobody likes a whiner
me: hahahaha
me: oh shit I'm out of rockstar
Sentences I will NOT include in my admissions...
“As a creator, I am constantly drawn to the underdog. The stories that are talking about things that no one else has the courage to discuss, the stories that would make Disney roll over in his homophobic anti-semitic little grave and vomit white supremacist earth all over his terrible, terrible bones. Stories like Bayou, or Bastard out of Carolina. Messy, human stories that do not shy away...
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SoCal is the WORST. Maybe it was the proximity to MCRD, but the hyper-masculinity and the hyper-femininity had me wanting to vomit by the end of my brothar’s gradumacation. I pretended it was just campy for a while, and they do take their weird little culture seriously enough to make it mockable, but the fact that this absurdity is dominant in Amurrka and has fucking sharp teeth made that...
Week one day one of marathon training wants me to bust out a 3 miler like it ain’t no thing.
I’m a little nervous. That’s like, my usual peak for distance. And it usually takes me a good month to work up to it.
In gun show related news, I’m back up to 3 pull-ups. Yaaaay.
3xosc: besttumblr: harpy: Nobody tells this to... →
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harpy:
Nobody tells this to people who are beginners, I wish someone told me. All of us who do creative work, we get into it because we have good taste. But there is this gap. For the first couple years you make stuff, it’s just not that good. It’s trying to be good, it has…
Oh also
Resolutions:
Art: Draw >80 pages of comics Create a cool spaceship in Sketchup Paint something in oils
Body: 10 pull-ups Bench 75% of my body weight Squat 75% body weight Run a marathon
Mind: Read >50 books Read >5 books in Spanish Win against a computer in Starcraft
Culture: Begin addiction to Dr. Who Learn how to make >5 cocktails that are not just soda+alcohol: classic...
2010 Books
Most of the books I read last year. Not all, because I only started writing them down in….August?
Books The Beauty Myth The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo The Girl Who Played with Fire The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest Bastard out of Carolina The Complete Sherlock Holmes* An Empire of Wealth The Silmarillion Woman A Place of My Own Orlando* Collected Short Stories of H.P. Lovecraft...