notwithstanding the foregoing

conversations I have had via social media with my old roommate/close friend in the last 24 hours

torturing her cats either by dressing them in people clothes or getting them high on catnip
renewing library books online because we’re too lazy to return them
training her cat to attack people (this was actually an unfortunate side-effect of training her cat to do backflips when we tapped on the wall)

notwithstanding the foregoing: Also, a lot of poetry just confuses me. →

littleorphanammo:

I try. I try to understand but metaphor wrapped in simile wrapped in allegory wrapped in analogy is too hard.

I feel like we need a poetry Tim Gunn to come in and tell people when they need to pull it back because it’s overworked.

Some of it is magical and wonderful and…

#yes nicole I’m talking to you

The dream of America’s Next Top Poet lives on! Or Project Poetry?

I’d volunteer to be Tim Gunn but that means I would have to be nice. I’d rather be Heidi Klum. “WE ASKED YOU FOR A CHARMING SESTINA AND YOU GAVE US A DULL, LIFELESS PANTOUM. YOU ARE OUT. AUF WIEDERSEHEN. RELEASE THE HOUNDS.”

America’s Next Top Poet was the best idea I had that year, I think. It can still work!

(Weren’t we going to have John Ashbery be a judge? It would be AWESOME.)

Also, a lot of poetry just confuses me.

littleorphanammo:

I try. I try to understand but metaphor wrapped in simile wrapped in allegory wrapped in analogy is too hard.

I feel like we need a poetry Tim Gunn to come in and tell people when they need to pull it back because it’s overworked.

Some of it is magical and wonderful and some of it…I get to the end and I’m all “wat?”

“No. Wat?!”

And yeah, I get the flow of the words and cadence and stuff but that, too, falls flat for me.

So I try to read it again and again:

“So you…are…talking about…wat?”

And then I go and watch the dubstep cat again.

this is going out to all my poet buddies out there.

They would assume immediately that you were from the hood. And the hood, in their mind, was a compilation of every single cop show, action movie that they’d ever seen in their lives. All these things were expected of us, like we would be great dancers. You would go to a discotheque and people would immediately form like a circle around us. And I’m like, ‘I’m not going to do anything worth watching. Stop looking at me. Just let me dance and not be looked at.’

Stew, On What Was Projected Onto Him When He Went To Europe

(via nprfreshair)

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Since “The Manly Art of Knitting” is sadly out of print, if you were actually looking for a manly knitting instructional book, Amazon has you covered.

But there’s not a cowboy on the cover. Sorry about that.

TM: You have turned down screen roles due to their violent content or their inappropriate nature. Did you have any reservations about taking this part?
JG: Diana is not like me, a middle-class kid from the suburbs. She is a poor person from pre-Perestroika Russia. So it’s hard to judge someone whose environment is so compromised in a way that I can’t relate to. Back when mainstream scripts would come my way and there was no reason for attractive women to be killed or harassed in their underwear — things that have nothing to do with the plot —I’d turn them down. But Russian Transport is well-written and everything in it has everything to do with the plot.

Janeane Garafalo just made me like her even more. I wasn’t sure that was possible.

This is totally wear when I knit backstage.

sourdoughislife:

turnabout:

talesofknitty:

Knitting for your Cat. Don’t get on the bad side of these two cats.

S - I should knit things for Loki. (Bailey would probably kill me.)

Hahaha yes! (Though didn’t you once knit a cat toy? I recall she liked that!)

But she didn’t WEAR that. Also it had catnip in it, and she’s totally a junkie.

talesofknitty:

Knitting for your Cat. Don’t get on the bad side of these two cats.

S - I should knit things for Loki. (Bailey would probably kill me.)

Plans for a Return of 'Jekyll & Hyde' to Broadway | NY Times →

popculturebrain:

The Nederlanders are looking to put on the Frank Wildhorn Revival.

Constantine Maroulis (“Rock of Ages”) will play both central characters. The producers are aiming for a spring 2013 arrival on Broadway after a 25-week national tour scheduled to begin on Oct. 2 in San Diego.

This after Wildhorn’s most recent musicals Bonnie & Clyde and Wonderland both flopped.

CAN SEBASTIAN BACH BE IN IT AGAIN? I’M ASKING FOR A FRIEND.