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Category Archives: Stuck in the middlebrow
if.you.ask.me (un/tormented mentors II)
you shouldn’t be allowed to pick your teenage idols until you’re 45 (if you want a second opinion on this, e-mail alanis morissette at ask.alanis@theguardian.com.)
SIX-WORD STORIES – i can do this like hemingway.
love story ached genuinely, lied selectively, blamed wholeheartedly. counterintuitiveness signed, sealed, deliverd. then turned back. short love story first date, third base, last seen. compensating grossly misunderstood but slutty: never underpaid. unfinished autobiography nothing against my better judgement – yet. … Continue reading
when dorothy parker meets the depeche mode
you can scratch a lover but that won’t stop your itching
it’s my party
i can die if i want to
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a night at the library
unlike the night at the museum, won’t have any sequel.
you’re not the exception, you’re the rule
and the rule is you’re the rule when it comes to good things and you’re the exception when it comes to bad things.
the sense of an ending
bad books with good titles are bound to be misused even when they’re not misunderstood
how i met your morals
independent sluts are punished with sterility and bad marriages; parenthood redeems womanizers; the mother of your children has to be a quasi-virgin whose tragic past has kept her from fucking whomever was fuckable like you did yourself in your quest for her; … Continue reading
lazy phds watch bad movies
the holiday: cameron diaz sees her life as a bunch of trailers for a movie never made. graduate students see their lives as a bunch of abstracts for articles never written, and they most definitely won’t meet jude law in … Continue reading
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