March 2011
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Pi is round(ed up).
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Einstein and Pi
3.14… a match made in heaven.
One of my best friends is getting married in just a few months. In fact, he just got engaged several weeks ago. And I barely know the bride to be. This has been a tough year. I miss spending time with my friends.
Sorry for the lack of posts recently. Things were a bit hectic this past week, and now I’m spending some time with family this week. I should be back to semi-regular posts soon. In the meantime, I’m listening to Johnny Cash at Folsom Prison while grading papers. Fitting.
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Spiderman and U2: Destiny.
You probably have heard about the Spiderman musical in production on Broadway. You may have heard that members of U2 are behind the musical production. What you probably didn’t know was how much the band and the superhero have in common. Here’s what you need to know:
Bono was bit by a radioactive leprechaun. It gave him superhuman limerick writing ability.
Meanwhile, a symbiotic...
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-3-6) →
Daft Punk (23)
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The New Pornographers (19)
Brett Dennen (17)
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Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
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Four Lines... staying at someone else's this...
If you want tonight’s Four Line’s entry, check out my friend’s tumblr. I dropped a rap verse over there. And by dropped, I mean, I wrote and then explained, it. I did not drop it either in the gravitational or oral presentation sense.
http://squirrelgrrl.tumblr.com/
squirrelgrrl-deactivated2011080 asked: I am going to assume based on your comment that you cannot rap on beat? It would be most amusing to hear you rap. Perhaps your next video should be you rapping one of your poems. Yes. It should. Do that, k? Kthx.
“I don’t know what I think until I write it down.”
– Joan Didion (via crookedtooth)
miss-english asked: I'm going to go out on a limb here. Because I think you are know for anon questions.
So, how do you like YOUR eggs? (And if I'm wrong, or don't get my preface, answer anyway.)
So, how do you like YOUR eggs? (And if I'm wrong, or don't get my preface, answer anyway.)
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Nolan Chart
Yeah… This is about right.
squirrelgrrl-deactivated2011080 asked: Well, in that case, I probably have more indie cred than the entire population of Austin, MN combined. Which is not at all hard to do, but whatevs.
I don't know exactly what a cheese-wave band is like, but the phrase brings to mind images of people eating and possibly throwing cheese curls during shows, and band members shooting cheez-wiz out into the audience. I think this...
I don't know exactly what a cheese-wave band is like, but the phrase brings to mind images of people eating and possibly throwing cheese curls during shows, and band members shooting cheez-wiz out into the audience. I think this...
squirrelgrrl-deactivated2011080 asked: Done! Sry, it took a minute bc I'm on the iPod.
Doesn't it defeat the purpose, though, to ask for anonymity, since now I'll assume any anons are you?
Doesn't it defeat the purpose, though, to ask for anonymity, since now I'll assume any anons are you?
This picture of Zooey Deschanel keeps popping up on the radar on my dashboard. And it makes me wish I had my own Zooey Deschanel. That greedy Ben Gibbard just had to go and marry her…
foryouradoration asked: Haha. Excellent advice on the pizza thing. I think I'll listen and go get some.
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Explore? Directory? Help?
Ok, so, the directory is gone and in it’s place is a new system that’s all moderated and junk. But I don’t see a creative writing category? How do I find fellow tumblr’s who like to write creatively, doing literary sketches or poetry, etc.? The literature tag seems to be academia or book reviews and the long reads section doesn’t cover the shorter bits…
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Hug
Desperately, he seeks approval
For removal of his helplessness
Yet incredulous, he can’t accept
That he won’t be swept under your rug
A hug might be the spark plug
The caffeine in his coffee mug
The first shovel that has ever dug
Into his drug addled heart
-jsm
(this was gonna be four lines, but they were running a buy one get one free special, so you get eight)
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Decisions
I rarely feel more emasculated than when I cannot make a decision. Alternately, I feel quite manly when I do make a decision. I like being decisive, but I fear making the wrong decisions, especially major ones, because I do not want to be stupid. Of course, stupidity is emasculating too; yes, others may disagree and say stupidity is quite the male trait, but I digress. I do not believe I am...
I really wish life had a pause menu right now. Maybe some cheat codes too.
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Four Lines
You may have noticed that I’ve been posting a some very brief four line poems lately. The first one was silly yet sincere, the second sincere yet silly. The third, just posted, is less silly.
I think I’m going to adopt these four line poems as a writing discipline for myself. Something to serve as a bare minimum of practice to write every day. It’s something to both challenge...
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Untitled #2: Something about March
Inspire me, please, because I have nothing to say
Inspire me, please, because I’m where I don’t want to stay
Inspire me, please, because we’re two months from May
Inspire me, please, because I forgot how to pray.
-jsm
