February 2012
25 posts
will post 004 tomorrow.
Formatting for the kindle, takes a while… apparently.
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The Brasilian
John first told me about the Brasilian, the night he came for dinner. I was in recovery, and starting to feel better and stronger everyday. I hadn’t seen anybody in almost a year.
John arrived at eight and brought wine. I wasn’t able to drink, but I poured him a glass and we talked over the meal. We talked at first about the past, about our time at university together, and then what...
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I’m Not Ok, Cupid.
Two summers ago, I signed up for okcupid. Since then i’ve been on dates with about ten girls. Some have been very good, some have been exquisitely bad, as I’ve wrote about here before. The one time I have fallen in to painful hollywood love, was with someone through okcupid; she then broke my heart, and made her bed in the fragments of it. I’ve dated a...
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Out of China; Into Africa.
The most important building to be built this year has been deprived of any media attention, except in Africa. To find it, you need to go crawling through the world section of the Independent, or the Guardian, or any other liberally slanted newspaper. Not since the rock-hewn churches has Ethiopia been a centre for important architecture. But, this year, in Addis Ababa,...
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Watch Jonathan Ames’s Wonderful Drunk Speech at... →
natashavc:
atencio:
This is indeed wonderful, and is the most charming thing Jonathan Ames has ever been involved with.
wowza.
I’m gonna try a little experiment: write 500 words (roughly) a day for 100 days, starting tomorrow. hmm…
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changing the blog format a bit. I’m doing a Kanye.
Everything before now, was practice