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- “One day I hope I can write happier poems, but most of the things I think about aren’t very cheerful.” — poet Philip Larkin
- “I gave my eardrums to MGM. And it’s true: I really did.” — Esther Williams
- On This Day: August 7, 1934: “It must always be remembered that his locale was Celtic and his season Spring.”
- “These kids only want to talk about acting method and motivation. in my day all we talked about was screwing and overtime.” — Robert Mitchum
- “I wrote as much as seventy lines at one time, and used to go shouting them about the fields after dark.” — Alfred, Lord Tennyson
- Podcast: Jen Johans and I discuss Dana Andrews
- “Poets, the best of them, are a very chameleonic race.” — Percy Bysshe Shelley
- “There is one Metallica. We have many styles, it’s called Metallica.” — James Hetfield
- “The trouble with Hollywood is everybody is crazy for money.” — Ann Dvorak
- “He who has never felt, momentarily, what madness is has but a mouthful of brains.” — Herman Melville
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Tag Archives: Hope
Do You See Me? Do You See What I’m Doing?
Hope in my sneakers box.
How I Know It’s Summer
I walk into any given room in my apartment and this is what I see.
Stuff I’ve Been Reading
— There’s a new Jonathan Swift biography which sounds excellent. I very much enjoyed reading this review. — Fantastic essay on Grantland about the insidious “Man up” culture we’ve got going on and how dangerous it is. Not to mention … Continue reading
Snapshots
— I took a bellydancing class with a friend of mine on Tuesday and it was extremely challenging, I was turned into a giant tomato-headed sweatball, wearing a drenched Elvis T-shirt, and I was still feeling it the next day. … Continue reading
2012. Love You, Hate You, Next.
I rarely do these things, but I saw this at my friend Ted’s place and thought I’d fill it out. On my own terms. 1. What did you do in 2012 that you’d never done before? Put together a New … Continue reading
Snapshots, Sandy and Otherwise
— Walking down my street just now, I thought, “Hm. Something’s different … can’t quite put my finger on it.” Then realized that it’s because the power is back on. We have streetlights, and the houses have lights at night … Continue reading
St. Anthony Has Been Wicked Busy
On Thursday night at 6 p.m. I got an email from my landlord telling me there had been a fire in my apartment building but my “cat was okay” and no one was hurt. I was in Manhattan. I called … Continue reading

