Elizabeth

@aoscott Squid and be the Whale: "Dad, what's a philistine?" "It's someone who isn't interested in film or art". "Ok. I'm a philistine".

something inherently disturbing about eating reese's pieces while watching someone play david foster wallace but I did it anyway

Today I learned the beautiful French for "swings both ways": Il/Elle est `a voile et `a vapeur. (Is a boat that sails and steams).

sonnet to the snake who so loved music that out of prudence he stops up one ear with the tip of his tail

It is only a whole seaful of water that can rival fire in variety and loveliness.--Max Beerbohm, "The Fire"

Just imagining rolling up onto the beach in a motor car as Dick van Dyke does in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

x-files, twin peaks, missy elliott, L7, seapunk, sleater-kinney. these 90s revivals are our desperate attempt to unfuck the response to 9/11

sound of jackhammers jangling in the distance, like god passing overhead in his best earrings

Ah, mortal! then, be heedful; for so, in all this din of the great world�s loom, thy subtlest thinkings may be overheard afar.

I would rather feel your spine than your skull, whoever you are.

asked for a single unpitted olive because ‘he thought it might grow into an olive tree from inside him’. The inmate was cremated.

let us mull this over as quickly as possible

maybe you're right. I just need to be shielded from information---I feel like an overstimulated nipple or something

racehorse named: We Consume Our Powers in Hoisting Ourselves Back to the Plane of Understanding Reached a Century Ago and at Intervals Since

whenever I fall asleep for that long without meaning to I feel like I've been abducted by aliens

ira glass trashing the ending of the Odyssey

of all god's bitchbastard crimes, the unidirectional flow of time is at once his most flippant and cruel