11: I Like Everything
My Manila Playlist
By OWARD BODIE “I should be floating but I’m weighted by thinking” – Animal Collective August of this year was, indisputably, my worst month. I had this persistent cold, felt constantly smothered (“like I’ve been breathing nothing but bad air”), and walked around feeling perpetually unsatisfied. My hunger was never satiated, no matter how much [...]
Polishing the Turd
By ALICE SARMIENTO DISCUSSED: Lowering the Bar on Original Content, Fearing failure Consider the civet. We the living are united by the act of consumption and excretion; we eat to live and then we poop, it’s a cycle that repeats itself until the day we die. Think about it, even the most beautiful and powerful [...]
Biting the Hand That Feeds
by MARLA CABANBAN DISCUSSED: emancipation, disappearing off the grid, freedom from scenes and materialism I came across an interview with a lady named Bai Di who grew up in socialist China during the Cultural Revolution. She grew up with only two sets of clothes and a need for nothing more. Setting aside the more flawed [...]
I Like How Infinity Equals Everything
Or: Fully Functioning Wings in an Infinite Universe By PAUL DOBLE Craigslist Personals Ad, Strictly Platonic Section I don’t want to meet you. – w4m – 34 (SFV)Date: 2010-11-06, 11:48PM PDT I’m just looking for an interesting, quasi-intelligent email correspondence with a guy who has a wry sense of humor, little to no ties to [...]
This Whole Parenting Thing
By MELAY LAPENA DISCUSSED: Breastfeeding, Bears, Eating Habits, Questions, Answers There’s nothing like having a kid to make you question your sanity. It doesn’t begin with labor. In the larger scheme of things, labor is actually one of the more painless parts of parenthood. Even twelve hours of it, without anesthesia, is a walk in [...]
Everyday I Write the Book
Music for Reading, Writing, and Arithmetic By HANNA KRISHNA N. CALLORA Roald Dahl is one of my favorite writers. Growing up, I always thought he was my other father. I was never the kid who played outside after school, running around after other kids and climbing trees and getting dirty. I read a lot and [...]
Love In the Time of Facebook
By TARA CABULLO DISCUSSED: A Romantic Comedy Reference, Dating Angst, Love “IRL” I had this guy leave me a voice mail at work, so I called him at home, and then he emailed me to my BlackBerry, and so I texted to his cell, and now you just have to go around checking all these [...]
An Exercise in Transparency
By NICE BUENAVENTURA DISCUSSED: LJ Romances, Reconnections, The Loves of Our Lives I won’t deny it. I talked to him first, if leaving a random comment on his lj passes for talking. But I must not deny either, that all I really wanted were the pinback buttons he posted about. They were, after all, for [...]
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