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"The Long Boat" by Stanley Kunitz
When his boat snapped loose
from its mooring, under
the screaking of the gulls,
he tried at first to wave
to his dear ones on shore,
but in the rolling fog
they had already lost their faces.
Too tired even to choose
between jumping and calling,
somehow he felt absolved and free
of his burdens, those mottoes
stamped on his name-tag:
conscience, ambition, and all
that caring.
He was content to lie down
with the family ghosts
in the slop of his cradle,
buffeted by the storm,
endlessly drifting.
Peace! Peace!
To be rocked by the Infinite!
As if it didn’t matter
which way was home;
as if he didn’t know
he loved the earth so much
he wanted to stay forever.
I love this meme.
You are in a mall when the zombies attack. You have:
1. One weapon.
2. One song blasting on the speakers.
3. One famous person to fight alongside you.
Weapon can be real or fictional; you may assume endless ammo if applicable. Person can be real or fictional.
—
My answers:
1. Swirling rainbows of death that shoot from the palms of my hands
2. “Jesus is Waiting” by Al Green
3. Buffy
[Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.]
meghanagain:
This is a low quality recording of me doing a low quality reading of “Talk Pidgin,” a story that I wrote back in March. I ruin it towards the end, and then I do some cursing, but there’s a good run in the middle. It’s like eight and a half minutes, which is about how long it takes to make some mac and cheese from a box. I did do that on purpose.
Listen at least all the way through to where she messes up, if you please.
Also: is that how you pronounce “cuneiform?” It has 4 syllables when I say it. I mean I’m not Indiana Jones over here, I’m just asking.
Also: 99% of the time, when I hear an internet person’s voice for the first time, it’s a lot lower than I was expecting. But in this case reality matched expectation. Exceeded it, even.
Also: I love love love hearing internet people voices.
Also: Meghan Deans, everyone.
This post was reblogged from How You Gonna Keep 'Em Down.
Use of the phrase “something precious” in Chokeville.
- “You destroyed something precious inside her.”
- “I have taken something precious from you. Welcome to Sal’s Fish House.”
- “Ah god,” he says, now actually weeping. “Lost something precious.”
- “Some feller that made off with something precious.”
- He lowers his hand and says: “I have taken something precious from you.”
iTunes Top 20 Most Played as of 6/10/08
Regina Spektor - Bobbin’ for Apples (Live)
Lupe Fiasco - Gold Watch
MIA - Paper Planes
Lois - Wet Eyes
Amerie - Talkin’ ‘Bout (Siik remix)
Regina Spektor - Duuseldorf
Amy Winehouse - I’m No Good
Busta Rhymes - Everything Remains Raw
Regina Spektor - Ode to Divore
Charlotte Hatherly - Kim Wilde
Lois - Transatlantic Telephone Call
Josie & the Pussycats - Shapeshifter
Lil Wayne - Dr Carter
Birds Fled From Me - The Resisted
Goldfrapp - Strict Machine
The Knife - Forest Familes
Lois - Evening in Paris
Shiina Ringo - Hatsukoi Shoujo
The Proclaimers - Over And Done With
Sia - Little Black Sandals
There’s only 2 songs on here I’ve listened to in the last two weeks. You go through a phase where you only listen to one particular song for a week, and it’s stuck on your top 20 list for the rest of your life.
meghanagain:
The thing I always think about when I think about Cyd Charisse is how in the gangster section (she arrives at 4:19) of the ballet in Singin’ in the Rain, the entire thing is choreographed so she looks shorter than Gene Kelly. She is clearly naturally taller than him + she is costumed in these heels AND YET. So you watch this thing, right, and the whole time her knees are bent and she’s, like, literally bending over backwards to preserve this guy’s masculinity. Which, probably wearing slightly fewer pairs of loafers would have done as well. GENE KELLY. Anyway she was one of my favorites. Just wanted to say.
I like this memory much better than mine, which is of Janet Jackson’s “Alright” video (she arrives at 3:00), where you have to wonder if the directors made Cyd dumb it down for old Janet.
This post was reblogged from How You Gonna Keep 'Em Down.
