Word Bumps

http://booktwo.org/notebook/opinions-are-non-contemporary/

Thu, 24 May 2012 11:11:07 -0400

http://booktwo.org/notebook/opinions-are-non-contemporary/:

For the past decade or so, the only critics of science fiction I pay any attention to, all three of them, have been slyly declaring that the Future is over.

http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/05/07/fear-and-cycling/

Mon, 07 May 2012 11:28:35 -0400

http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/05/07/fear-and-cycling/:

Like many people, I like to set aside a few hours every day, generally between 3 and 6 a.m., to lie quietly thinking about everything that could go horribly wrong with my life…

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0060652381/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=simmakmon-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0060652381

Sat, 05 May 2012 22:56:57 -0400

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0060652381/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=simmakmon-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0060652381:

He had been invited to the great feast of marriage and the banquet was rudely snatched away from him before he had done more than sample the hors d’oeuvres.

http://www.psfk.com/2012/03/jonathan-harris-cowbir-psfk-nyc-2012.html#ixzz1tcnqGaIm

Tue, 01 May 2012 18:38:29 -0400

http://www.psfk.com/2012/03/jonathan-harris-cowbir-psfk-nyc-2012.html#ixzz1tcnqGaIm:

I spend a lot of time in solitude, and a lot of time in nature. I also go swimming every day. When you go to the woods, or to the desert, or to water, and you consider your ideas, if the ideas seem timeless and valid in places like that, then they are probably very good ideas.

http://blogs.suntimes.com/ebert/2012/04/i_remember_you.html

Fri, 13 Apr 2012 11:08:21 -0400

http://blogs.suntimes.com/ebert/2012/04/i_remember_you.html:

I remember them. They exist in my mind—in countless minds. But in a century the human race will have forgotten them, and me as well. Nobody will be able to say how we sounded when we spoke. If they tell our old jokes, they won’t know whose they were.

http://www.raptitude.com/2009/05/does-your-story-have-this-common-weakness/

Wed, 04 Apr 2012 14:22:27 -0400

http://www.raptitude.com/2009/05/does-your-story-have-this-common-weakness/:

Deep in the pages of the 28th self-help book you bought, lies the perfect piece of wisdom. It’s simple and brilliant, and best of all, only $12.95.

http://jtaby.com/2012/02/02/a-moment-of-clarity.html

Sat, 31 Mar 2012 17:42:42 -0400

http://jtaby.com/2012/02/02/a-moment-of-clarity.html:

On average, you have 78 years total to live. The first 18-20 are spent learning, which leaves 58. Spending 2 years doing something you don’t enjoy is a full 3.4% of your life. What are you getting back for that investment? Money? What are you going to do with that money that will be worth the non-refundable 3.4% of your life? An extra room in your house?

http://thoughtcatalog.com/2012/what-happens-when-you-die/

Tue, 27 Mar 2012 14:33:27 -0400

http://thoughtcatalog.com/2012/what-happens-when-you-die/:

When your loved ones squint they can almost see your fingerprints glowing on everything you touched. Doorknobs and light switches, shoelaces and silverware. It’s like you’re still here, just out of reach…

http://thoughtcatalog.com/2012/nothing-is-more-normal-than-the-weirdness-of-the-world/

Fri, 16 Mar 2012 11:39:51 -0400

http://thoughtcatalog.com/2012/nothing-is-more-normal-than-the-weirdness-of-the-world/:

Now picture the life of all of these things. What is the life of a sun like? My god, it’s intense! Makes your latest break up look a tad, well, paltry. Not that the break up isn’t important, too. But just consider life, for one moment, on a cosmic level.

http://nplusonemag.com/on-the-market

Thu, 08 Mar 2012 18:14:36 -0500

http://nplusonemag.com/on-the-market:

In my interview, I told my future boss that I had never been able to imagine an idea that could be best expressed by painting it. “But,” I added, making exaggerated eye contact, “appreciating art doesn’t mean you can send effective emails. I can write. I can make your job easier for you.” This is the best thing to say in an interview if you are young and unqualified to do anything other than maintain a personal blog.

http://thoughtcatalog.com/2012/the-stupid-hings-we-hold-on-to/

Tue, 06 Mar 2012 13:08:32 -0500

http://thoughtcatalog.com/2012/the-stupid-hings-we-hold-on-to/:

I could delete entire days, resign myself to a horrible altered state, because it was just a day. A day just like all the others. Who cares if I waste another? I don’t feel this way anymore.

http://thoughtcatalog.com/2012/my-brain-during-a-creative-slump/

Thu, 23 Feb 2012 15:35:37 -0500

http://thoughtcatalog.com/2012/my-brain-during-a-creative-slump/:

The next time you catch yourself becoming fascinated by a white sheetrock wall, blink. Take a walk. Stop giving me reasons to disengage from reality.

http://thoughtcatalog.com/2012/how-to-forget-paris/

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:56:23 -0500

http://thoughtcatalog.com/2012/how-to-forget-paris/:

She, too, was carroted down the rabbit trail of a hope-filled future shared with someone, only to discover her bed was left just as cold as the promises she’d so earnestly trusted.

http://thoughtcatalog.com/2012/the-joy-of-thinking-differently/

Mon, 06 Feb 2012 11:57:33 -0500

http://thoughtcatalog.com/2012/the-joy-of-thinking-differently/:

To have such a hallowed idea, an idea that I didn’t even realize I had because I simply thought it was true, to have such a thing so completely re-organized, redistributed, a whole new sense of it forged was invigorating, intoxicating, making me delirious with possibility.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/15/fashion/exit-left-wordlessly.html

Thu, 19 Jan 2012 16:49:30 -0500

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/15/fashion/exit-left-wordlessly.html:

That was the last I ever heard from him. No message, no note. He wasn’t dead in a ditch. (Nobody needs a detective these days; Facebook activity is quite adequate as a paperless trail.) He was just – gone.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2012/jan/16/facebook-gave-me-writers-block

Mon, 16 Jan 2012 17:20:13 -0500

http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2012/jan/16/facebook-gave-me-writers-block:

I no longer reach for the Facebook icon on my iPhone in the night as one might reach across the bed for a departed partner.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/patricia-crisafulli/finding-purpose-embracing_b_1194089.html

Fri, 13 Jan 2012 11:08:49 -0500

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/patricia-crisafulli/finding-purpose-embracing_b_1194089.html:

Then, a sudden gust drew my attention upwards to the branches bending and soughing in the wind – the most beautiful ballet I could imagine.

http://blog.davidtate.org/2011/12/the-dangerous-effects-of-reading/

Thu, 29 Dec 2011 15:40:56 -0500

http://blog.davidtate.org/2011/12/the-dangerous-effects-of-reading/:

Adding anything (not just your opinion) to the world is creating – writing, drawing, dancing (not line-dancing which is not art but instead some sort of long-term psychological annoyance stress test).

http://thoughtcatalog.com/2011/what-an-honest-job-interview-would-sound-like

Tue, 27 Dec 2011 14:24:22 -0500

http://thoughtcatalog.com/2011/what-an-honest-job-interview-would-sound-like:

I am an incompetent mess who lives in a perpetual state of self-doubt, forever questioning my ability to acclimate myself into society as a functioning, productive adult, something I repeatedly justify by asking aloud whether or not I even want to submit to the cultural hegemony that has prevented my parents from becoming satisfied and self-actualized human beings.

http://boingboing.net/2011/12/09/the-diagnosis.html

Fri, 09 Dec 2011 11:44:51 -0500

http://boingboing.net/2011/12/09/the-diagnosis.html:

I have breast cancer. A week ago, I had breast cancer, and the week before that, and the week before that. Maybe five, eight, even ten years ago, the first bad cell split inside me, secretly. But I didn’t know. This is how I arrived at knowing.