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  • Necessary Ambition

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  • Understandably, I couldn’t resist

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    OK, I promise to try not to post another overheardnyc entry. In the meantime: User: overheardnyc Date: 2005-02-28 21:56 Subject: When “Go Fuck Yourself” Is Just Not Enough Security: Public http://www.overheardinnewyork.com/archives/000940.html Bible Thwacker: Have you considered turning back to Jesus? Woman: Have you considered licking my clitoris? –Times Square

  • What if it is?

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    And in other ‘fun things you, too, can do’, today I updated my will. It was just an overdue thing — nothing at all to do with all the dying that’s featured in discussions lately. I stumbled across the half-completed will under an overdue water bill (which seemed particularly poignant at the time) & thought,…

  • Writing and loneliness

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    Quoting Neal Pollack (pollack_blog) who’s quoting Jonathan Safran Foer: “Why do I write? It’s not that I want people to think I am smart, or even that I am a good writer. I write because I want to end my loneliness.” — Jonathan Safran Foer The New York Times Magazine, 2-7-05. http://nealpollack.com/archives/2005/02/index.html#000258

  • Achievements in Literacy

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    chrisbarnes was right: Partially Clips is funny. http://www.partiallyclips.com/pages/archive.php?id=1303&b=1&c=1 In other news, I have signed up for a couple of panels at Conflux2 (Conflux Redux to its friends). I have no idea why I’ve done this. I thought I’d sworn off panels. Curse you, Donna Hanson, for outwitting me by producing a really, really enticing programme.…

  • Power!

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    Having recently read The Portrait of Mrs. Charbuque by Jeffrey Ford, where snowflakes have a role to play, I liked this exchange from overheardnyc: http://www.overheardinnewyork.com/archives/000922.html A mother and daughter catching snowflakes on their tongues. Mother: I caught one, did you catch one? Daughter: Yes! Mother: Mine was too small, it tasted tiny. Daughter: I got…

  • Good old boys

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    So I saw BUBBA HO-TEP today, the movie based on the Bram Stoker award winning story by Joe R. Lansdale. And if that sentence doesn’t go halfway to explaining this movie, let me also add that it features an aging Elvis & an aging President Kennedy, trapped in a nursing home, being preyed upon by…

  • Why today & not tomorrow?

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    “Suicides have already betrayed the body.” — Anne Sexton, Wanting to Die Today’s subject line was prompted by girliejones in our discussions on the suicide of Hunter S. Thompson. How do you pick a day to die? Not just die. How do you pick a day to inflict irrevocable violence on yourself? How do you…

  • Those crazy writer guys, they so crazy

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    So I caught a couple of minutes of Law & Order: SVU this evening — enough to note that tonight’s murdering ‘psychopath’ (now THERE’S an overused word) was a rejected novelist. How do they know he’s a novelist? Why, when they pay a visit to his psychopathic den, he has wallpapered his apartment with rejection…

  • In case you haven’t seen this already

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    “Journalist Hunter S. Thompson did not take his life “in a moment of haste or anger or despondency” and probably planned his suicide well in advance because of his declining health, the family’s spokesman said Wednesday. Douglas Brinkley, a historian and author who has edited some of Thompson’s work, said the founder of “gonzo” journalism…