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  1. Said of Bilbaínos: "Ande o no ande, caballo grande."
  2. Bilbao: green & gunmetal grey, light rain. The Guggenheim, surprisingly, is a kind of streaked copper color, and not silver like I thought.
  3. Finished Pynchon's INHERENT VICE in three different bookstores today, & got given a free beer at Trident for my trouble.
  4. Fried chicken & waffles at trident booksellers.
  5. @bryanmckay Flannel is in this season. Depression mk. II means aesthetic solidarity is chic.
  6. @lostdoorkeys I've saved text from my brother's profile at 14 to show him in five years, when he's forgotten all about it.
  7. @thomdunn You know they'll hide under the taps until the bartender has to shoo them out with a broken pint glass, & then where will you be?
  8. RT @robotnik On Sep 1, I think wistfully of Boston: students returning, zip in the air, UHaul trucks wedged under low overpasses on Storrow.
  9. My father, trying to say goodbye in French to my sister as she leaves for Paris: "Bonjour!"
  10. Watching the entire first season of 30 ROCK & eating pasties. "Do you know why Jack Welch is the greatest leader since the pharaohs, Lemon?"
  11. Names of the family cars: Petunia Vader, Speedy Alice, Princess Buttercup, & Bonnie aka Hellfire Avenger.
  12. Doctorow's RAGTIME: Demonstrating by example the lost glories of America's prewar interurban train & trolley network.
  13. Making katamari jokes while my 16 yr old brother threatens to roll up stop signs, flower pots, & pedestrians with the family van.
  14. (con't). Freud destroys sex in America & laments New York's lack of public restrooms. JP Morgan secrets away a mummified Egyptian pharaoh.
  15. Reading Doctorow's RAGTIME for the first time. Archduke Ferdinand, heavy-lidded & bored, confuses Houdini for the inventor of the airplane.
  16. @thomdunn Drinking a bottle of Bell's Oberon, a summer wheat ale brewed in Comstock, MI, to go with my swordfish steaks tonight.
  17. Spelled 'Mackinaw' on the mainland, 'Mackinac' on the island. Pronounced the same.
  18. We picked up a four-seater & a draft horse named Shorty at a green barn near the public school. 'Mackinack: Where The Horse Is King.'
  19. Driving a carriage on Mackinack Island, where cars are outlawed and bicycles, horseshit, & phaetons rule the road.
  20. @thomdunn Which Marvel did JL write?