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"Richard Hugo says that MFA grads, or any writer, for that matter, shouldn’t teach until they’ve been writing, really writing, for ten years. Can’t think of a better piece of advice. Getting an MFA degree is no conference of authority; in fact, receiving one’s MFA is just the beginning of the real writing journey. Why should one leave an MFA program and immediately begin teaching. I’d like my teachers to have some more experience in writing before they begin tossing around exercises and maxims. To get back to the brain surgeon again–though the analogy isn’t explicit. I think I’ll go with the brain surgeon with 10 years of experience, overall, as opposed to the newly minted resident."

After the MFA - A Post-MFA Done Good: Interview With Lewis Buzbee

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"[Y]ou might very much, even desperately, want to get into your poem the astonishing gray eyes of the person you’re writing about but find the poem doesn’t really want those gray eyes, or maybe doesn’t want eyes at all. That sort of thing. The poem is making its demands of you as you make yours of it. All the while in this process something is being made, a thing is being made."

Frederick Seidel, during this interview.

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Buhleee dat!

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fuckyeahthemountaingoats:

The Mountain Goats - Cotton

This song is for the people
who tell their families that they’re sorry
for things they can’t and won’t feel sorry for.

Amazing song, excellent choice of lyrics to pull.

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Luggage Design Concept of the Day: “Suited Case” by designer Erik De Nijs for Dutch Design Week 09 — a 4-piece upholstered luggage set that can be pieced together to form a couch.
You know, for those really, really long layovers.
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Awesome for airline trips.

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Luggage Design Concept of the Day: “Suited Case” by designer Erik De Nijs for Dutch Design Week 09 — a 4-piece upholstered luggage set that can be pieced together to form a couch.

You know, for those really, really long layovers.

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Awesome for airline trips.

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falsefacts:

On the 8th day, God created Candy Corn.

TRUE

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falsefacts:

All pandas hate cake.

I especially enjoy the writing ON the cake.

link Ithkuil - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Ithkuil is a constructed human language marked by outstanding grammatical complexity, expressed with a rich phonemic inventory or through an original, graphically structured, system of writing.

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If this were a list of the most popular Cubs of all time rather than the greatest Cubs of all time, there isn’t much doubt that Jody Davis would rank even higher. Why was Jody Davis so popular? Was it because the Cubs had struggled to find a catcher since Randy Hundley got old? Was it because Jody had overcome many obstacles to become an All-Star catcher? Maybe it was because of his blue-collar hard-working attitude? Or perhaps it was just because his name could be sung to “The Ballard of Davy Crockett”? Whatever the reason, to this day, almost twenty years since he last wore a Cub uniform, Jody Davis remains one of the most popular Cubs ever. (via The Top 100 Cubs Of All Time - #53 Jody Davis - Bleed Cubbie Blue)

link My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-11-1)

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link McSweeney's Internet Tendency: It's Decorative Gourd Season, Motherfuckers.

Welcome to autumn, fuckheads!

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"I grew up in a college town, and one Halloween our doorbell rang and we opened the door expecting to see trick-or-treaters, but what was in front of our open door was another door! Like, a full-on wooden door, that had a sign that said “Please knock.” So we did, and the door swung open to reveal a bunch of college dudes dressed as really old grandmothers, curlers in their hair, etc, who proceeded to coo over our “costumes” and tell us we were “such cute trick or treaters!” One even pinched my cheek. Then THEY gave US candy, closed their door, picked it up and walked to the next house."

amazing.
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nevver:

These are hard times for dreamers.

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