September 2011
7 posts
packing list for my 6-day solo vacay
the sfpl’s best musical offerings, including etta james christmas tunes, charlotte gainsbourg’s irm, mary j blige, the latest norah jones, a ruth reichl audiobook
i don’t know how many bottles of wine
bottle opener
box of books. 7 packed so far, not including the guidebooks
all i’ve got so far. what else do people bring on these sorts of things?
Kindness by Naomi Shihab Nye
Before you know what kindness really is you must lose things, feel the future dissolve in a moment like salt in a weakened broth. What you held in your hand, what you counted and carefully saved, all this must go so you know how desolate the landscape can be between the regions of kindness. How you ride and ride thinking the bus will never stop, the passengers eating maize and chicken will stare...
things spotify has:
the entire contents of my barely adolescent self’s music collection, and then most of the contents of my pop-music obsessed high school self. (as if i’ve given up pop music since.) 90s mariah. fiona apple, natalie merchant’s “ophelia.” the cardigans, s club 7. jojo!
the soundtrack to baz lurhmann’s version of romeo + juliet. i can remember nearly melting into...
Black Widow Sonya Thomas Eats 183 Chicken Wings,... →
asiansnotstudying:
The Black Widow of eating contests has scarfed down 183 chicken wings in 12 minutes to break her own world record set last year in Buffalo, N.Y.
Sonya Thomas took home first place Sunday at the tenth annual National Buffalo Wings Festival. She beat eating marvel Joey “Jaws” Chestnut, who came in second with 174 wings.
wiki says that thomas used to work as a typist back...
The Hammock by Li-Young Lee
When I lay my head in my mother’s lap I think how day hides the stars, the way I lay hidden once, waiting inside my mother’s singing to herself. And I remember how she carried me on her back between home and the kindergarten, once each morning and once each afternoon.
I don’t know what my mother’s thinking.
When my son lays his head in my lap, I wonder: Do his...