January 2012
94 posts
“Decapitate,” said Logan. “Then find yourselves clothing and equipment.”
“What the hell you at?” shouted Buzzard. “Ain’t this enough?”
“Tribal raid, soldier. Decapitate. They’re all right. They’re dead.”
“Go stuff yourself,” said Buzzard. “You ain’t real any more, Logan: you ain’t the...
Steve Attardo, the designer behind Ivyland’s eye-catching cover, also did some outstanding work on Jay-Z’s Decoded and Helen DeWitt’s Lightning Rods.
Allowed a choice in the matter of peeing in public restrooms, I’ll take a closed stall over an exposed urinal or (kill me) communal trough. I’ve been the same all my life, I know, because one of my youngest memories—let’s say age nine—has me wriggling out of the church pew one Sunday Mass and taking my good sweet hymnless time going down to the basement men’s room, which...
“I’m excited … in a pink kind of a way, like that shirt! That shirt—you’re pink!”
“I’m pink.”
“Holy shit, it’s like a shirt with an exclamation mark. Pink!”
After reading The Recognitions in the Spring of 1957, Reid had walked out of his office at the Metropolitan Life Insurance building in New York and thrown his tie and dress shirt into the fountain in Madison Square. Going home in his T-shirt, he tossed his razor, alarm clock, and mirror out the window and adopted the nom de plume jack green, apparently taken from Jack’s Little Green Card, a...
Two of my favorite security guards downstairs are older guys given to talking film with one another, saying things like “And Jimmy Stewart was no kid when he made that picture” or “I saw the worst John Wayne movie ever made the other night,” and why has this not replaced the totality of mainstream art criticism already.
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More praise for Ivyland:
“Ivyland should be read by all who love the entropic, soulful hilarity of Thomas Pynchon’s The Crying of Lot 49.” —Matthew Gallaway, author of The Metropolis Case
“Klee’s prose isn’t simply vibrant, it vibrates and flickers and throbs like things do on a hit or three of good acid.” —Goodreads Reviews
Order here.
Anonymous asked: Pregnant girl wants to know where the acid is, because she wants to make the baby into a paper plane.
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sashayed:
You guys. You guyyyyyyys!! I have some writing up on the Hairpin! You should definitely please go learn When To Touch A Painting.
Only mildly annoyed re: being edited out of this anecdote.
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“It’s a terrible thing, what we did,” said Francis abruptly. “I mean, this man was not Voltaire we killed. But still. It’s a shame. I feel bad about it.”
“Well, of course, I do too,” said Henry matter-of-factly. “But not bad enough to want to go to jail for it.”
Francis snorted and poured himself another shot of whiskey and drank it...
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“It’s like the opening scene from Crocodile Dundee II, where he—”
“Everything on this table looks disgusting.”
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Wodehouse himself had not found it necessary to carry money in twenty years, and though he had spent most of his adult life in America, he still reckoned such things as book prices in pounds and shillings. His accent, like his arithmetic, remained pure English. Aside from his writing, his two passions were the New York Mets and a soap opera called The Edge of Night.
“The Art of Fiction...
Beat Happening /// “Our Secret” ///...
glutyoursoul:
On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 7:20 PM, Ruth S wrote: can I do “Dorothy Parker reviews your winter nail polish colors?” No, stop, I am already concerned that this is too ambitious a project. . 7:28 PM: “Dorothy Parker Gets Progressively Drunker While Reviewing Your Winter Nail Polish Colors.” . 7:29 PM: “50 Sexy Sex Tips To Drive Your Man Wild, By Gabriel Garcia Marquez”
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7:32 PM:...
President Romney looked at the German Chancellor carefully, up and down. “I’d say you’d go about one-forty, give or take five pounds,” he said. “Am I in the ballpark?”
Chancellor Merkel, hoping she might have misunderstood the President, said, “I believe the future of the euro will dominate our discussions in the coming days.”
“The city that has more bridges than any other city in the world...
lifeaquatic:
Catbus: Ivyland isn’t about ivyleague schools is it
me: no it’s about new jersey
Greatest fears: confirmed.
