January 2012
26 posts
“Look out how you use proud words.
When you let proud words go, it is not easy to call them back.
They wear long boots, hard boots; they walk off proud; they can’t hear you calling—
Look out how you use proud words.” —Carl Sandburg
When you let proud words go, it is not easy to call them back.
They wear long boots, hard boots; they walk off proud; they can’t hear you calling—
Look out how you use proud words.” —Carl Sandburg
“Let a joy keep you.
Reach out your hands
And take it when it runs by,
As the Apache dancer
Clutches his woman.
I have seen them
Live long and laugh loud,
Sent on singing, singing,
Smashed to the heart
Under the ribs
With a terrible love.
Joy always,
Joy everywhere—
Let joy kill you!
Keep away from the little deaths.” —Carl Sanburg
Reach out your hands
And take it when it runs by,
As the Apache dancer
Clutches his woman.
I have seen them
Live long and laugh loud,
Sent on singing, singing,
Smashed to the heart
Under the ribs
With a terrible love.
Joy always,
Joy everywhere—
Let joy kill you!
Keep away from the little deaths.” —Carl Sanburg
“
Lay me on an anvil, O God.
Beat me and hammer me into a crowbar.
Let me pry loose old walls.
Let me lift and loosen old foundations.
Lay me on an anvil, O God.
Beat me and hammer me into a steel spike.
Drive me into the girders that hold a skyscraper together.
Take red-hot rivets and fasten me into the central girders.
Let me be the great nail holding a skyscraper through blue nights into white stars.
1st World Problems
HOW MANY TIMES DO I HAVE TO KINDLY ASK YOU TO “REPLY ALL” ON THIS EMAIL THREAD?
Answer: all the times. every. single. time.
WHEN ARE YOU ACTUALLY GOING TO READ THE EMAIL I SENT IN IT’S THREE SENTENCE ENTIRETY AND FOLLOW IT’S INSTRUCTIONS? AND ACTUALLY HIT “REPLY ALL” OR INCLUDE mydepartment@mybusiness.com* ON ALL EMAILS, AS REQUESTED?
Answer: Never. Never, ever, ever. I will spend all afternoon forwarding emails full of incomplete sentences and none of the information we are looking for to the rest of my department and crying.
*Names changed to protect the innocent
Things I Am Looking Forward to This Weekend
- Finally putting that darned suitcase I have been schlepping all over the place for the last two months away.
- Having the time and energy to pluck my eyebrows and remove my two week old manicure
- SLEEPING. IN.
- Not leaving my apartment
- Enveloping myself in a cocoon of blankets and rolling my wrapped up self between the bed and the couch, and occasionally to the bathroom.
It’s cool, everyone. I’m just listening to every version of “Send in the Clowns” currently available on Spotify. One after another.
EVERYTHING IS UNDER CONTROL, HERE.
(Obviously, my favorite so far is Mandy Patinkin’s version. OBVIOUSLY.)
You know life is good
When your boyfriend is game to take a crash lesson from you in Latin dancing in the middle of an almost empty dance floor at a wedding reception.
“I’m a very good dancer. I don’t have time for Dancing With the Stars, but I would win.”
—
Martha Stewart (via beenthinking)
I very much want to see this happen
Rejected Jokes: Glenn Howerton, Josh Groban, Steve Little and I join forces like Voltron to star in CollegeHumor's First Feature Film... →
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Oh my word, someone put all the people I have a secret crush on in one movie.
My head is imploding as I type this.
I’m excited to announce that Glenn Howerton (It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia), Steve Little (Eastbound and Down), Josh Groban (The Office and “Music”) and I will star in CollegeHumor’s first feature length film- “Coffeetown.” The movie is being written and directed by the talented
