archives for August 2008

blog as mood ring

Monday 25 August 2008 | 3 cookies in the jar

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reaction shot

Sunday 24 August 2008 | 3 cookies in the jar

So the expatriation plans were perhaps a little melodramatic. In my defense, everyone knows the Un is the last place you’d come for intelligent campaign analysis, seeing as how almost all my knowledge of strategy comes from either season three of The West Wing or repeated viewings of The War Room. Which I really hope [...]

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pending president mccain’s election, the un will shortly be brought to you from her expatriated location in méxico

Saturday 23 August 2008 | 6 cookies in the jar

Because oh my God, you fool of a Took, WHATWEREYOUTHINKING.COM.

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can’t keep this from you any longer

Thursday 21 August 2008 | someone left a cookie

Because EVERYONE should have her own alethiometer.

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mare imbrium

Thursday 21 August 2008 | 4 cookies in the jar

When I wake with a start at the sluggardly hour of 9:00 am, catty perched on my chest wanting her late-morning kibbles, I immediately retrieve the light box from the closet and set it up next to the bed. Welcome, autumnal anxiety! So glad you are here to visit this year. Now go away please. [...]

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literalism run amok on pastry

Wednesday 20 August 2008 | 3 cookies in the jar

Courtesy of the magnificent Cake Wrecks, I’ve almost forgotten what a tugmuscle I am. At least I’m not an drain-bamaged chain-supermarket cake decorator. Though if I keep acting like a wanker I’m sure I’ll get my chance.

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this just in:

Tuesday 19 August 2008 | 2 cookies in the jar

I’M A BITCH. Details at six.

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oopsie daisies

Monday 18 August 2008 | 4 cookies in the jar

Don’t you just hate it when you ditch the very first day of school because you’re all nauseated and groggy from painkillers (and because you were insomniac the night before and stayed up reading The Sunlight Dialogues, which is, incidentally, a mess, if a big grand Gardnerian mess, and not nearly the novel October Light [...]

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officially most beautiful fabric in entire world

Monday 18 August 2008 | 3 cookies in the jar

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friday refrains · lost daughters, part II

Friday 15 August 2008 | someone left a cookie

In the white-white room he said, Is she a woman? asked why and the spiked tools laid in neat lines rows of recommendations, reasons, the aforementioned not-thought-of, it’s-too-late, what-were-you-thinkings she felt in their green gaze under the strobe and light altering, or something else fading in the waiting room: plastic toys, a small brown boy [...]

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