unicornology: themilkyteaphilosophy: slumberland: (via merricat)
I’ve been unboxing my books and organizing them (finally), and in so doing, I’ve been thinking a lot about how much I like ‘collections’ of books and how scholarly and orderly they look on a shelf. Also, I suddenly realize how prodigious a writer Louisa May Alcott was, and that I have absolutely no interest in her books. BOOOO YAAAH
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BANG!
It took me a second to realize he’s putting sunglasses on over his sunglasses
jeremy: “i really like your asteroids story, because i’m the same age as your father was at that time—i’m 34 now, which makes me sad, but, you know, you deal with it. every year, you deal with it.”
me: “someday i’m going to be older than my dad, who is just, like, perpetually 35.”
jeremy: “but i can see myself, if i had gone ahead and gotten married to the girl i was dating in college, i would’ve, you know, gone on to live a, probably, more constructive life than i have now, had a good job, not write about video games and, you know, i would’ve… i would’ve maybe played some old video games out of nostalgia, but really not kept up. and this year, i would be looking at bionic commando, and i would be saying to my child, ‘do you know what this is? this is bionic commando! but look how good it looks!’”
I have a New Century translation of the Bible — for teens! — and in it, the 23rd Psalm begins, “The Lord is my shepherd: I have everything I need.” It’s really painful.
But this is nice.
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Check out Wednesday Addams up there. I love how this girl is totally from a Roald Dahl book.
(I would never mock a child; rather, I’m celebrating a child’s mockery of others.)
