Archive for May, 2009
BFAM Day 31: The Bitter End
BEDA Fail Atonement Month is at an end, and I’m pretty sure that it’s been a mostly useless, if sometimes entertaining, venture. I don’t know what I set out to accomplish at the beginning of the month, and I’m not sure I did accomplish anything. My writing didn’t improve, my readership didn’t expand, I didn’t [...]
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Tags: BFAM, the end
One thing that annoys me about Nashville is the lack of decent ice cream. Summers growing up in Cincinnati were marked by weekly visits to the Lil Goodie Shoppe, Zip Dip, General Custer’s, and on very special ocassions, Putz’s. And of course, there was always Graeter’s and UDF.
Our summertime food groups were: sugar cones, glaciers, [...]
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Tags: annoyed, BFAM, ice cream, Nashville, summer, Tennessee
Today is my birthday. And recently, I’ve discovered that I am lacking a certain amount of perspective in my life.
A year ago, I was preparing to head off to Bosnia after wrapping up my failed stint in grad school. I was living in DC and I was fully aware of and engrossed in national and [...]
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Tags: a little personal, BFAM, happy birthday, life got in the way
Because we all know how much I like to torture/annoy myself with overwhelming projects, I’m thinking of taking on the Infinite Summer reading challenge.
The goal is to read David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest between June 21 and September 22. Over 1,000 pages of post-modern literature, which doesn’t include the nearly 400 endnotes tacked on. It’s [...]
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Tags: BFAM, books, David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest, Infinite Summer, projects
Look at THIS!
By chance, I happened to stumble upon that announcement this morning. I thought seeing Marah twice in a week was enough to sustain me for the rest of my life. But here they are, after last year’s failed tour, showing up in my life three times this year.
I have been waffling around about [...]
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Tags: BFAM, gigs, Marah, music, OMG, Southgate House
In possibly the most exciting and shocking news to hit the internet this weekend:
My Scottish Best Friend, the Internet Herself, that adorable little pixlet we all know and love, Lisa-Marie is to be married in the indeterminate future to crime writer and novelist extraordinaire, The Stringer.
The blogosphere is all abuzz. The Twittosphere is all atweet. [...]
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Tags: announcements, BFAM, Lisa-Marie, OMG, Scotland
This weekend at home has been pretty great. I found out on Friday night that my stepsister is pregnant again. My dad and Jenny got me an underwater MP3 player for my birthday and I’ve been mentally arranging a playlist for my next set in the pool. (I’m also pretty much obsessed with Kings of [...]
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Tags: BFAM, birthdays, Cincinnati, home
Being home is sort of fascinating, because when I’m away, I tend to forget how awesome and hilarious my hometown is.
I’m so ready to be finished with BFAM, but I’m 24 days in and still going strong. Being home makes it difficult to compose my thoughts into a coherent blog, so I’ll just say that [...]
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Tags: BFAM, Cincinnati, Taste
BFAM Day 23: She Stood To Fly
The cat is out of the bag. I was trying to keep this a bit of a secret, but my dear friend Libby happened to mention it in the last entry’s comments.
Wednesday night, I spent two and a half hours getting my ribcage tattooed. With a crane. It is awesome. And huge. And pretty.
And I’m [...]
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Tags: BFAM, Cincinnati, friends, Katrina, Libby, sunburn, tattoos
So, I took that quiz that’s been floating around on Facebook, “What [sic] Work of Literature Are You?” My result was Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment:
You have an unimaginable ability to rationalize your own wrongdoings. You see the world through your own eyes. Laws weren’t made for you, no, they were made for those who are [...]
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Tags: BFAM, books, Crime and Punishment, Dostoevsky, Facebook, Gravity's Rainbow, memes, Thomas Pynchon
