So, with the new Facebook timeline in place, I decided this was a decent time to start my planned FB cleanup. I started with groups and moved on to my bloated inbox, where I discovered a hoarde of non-spam messages from real people, some were people asking about whether I was the guy they had met at a party or at the market or whatever, and they were all done so long ago that it wasn’t worth responding, but then I stumbled upon this message:

Well, shit, yeah I’ll help your kid out! I absolutely adore that play and I think it’s neat that I’m a major find in the search bar, especially after my Facebook based modern retelling of Earnest for my Brit Lit class a few years ago and I really hope your kid is oka—

FUCK.

I’m still hoping to pick up the four-book boxset before the end of summer, because it’s cheaper than buying them all together (even the eBooks are more expensive).

But I totally snagged a $6 copy of A Game of Thrones at Kroger today, and I’m pretty pumped to start reading it this week.

picturebooklog:

Title: Go the F**k to Sleep
Author: Adam Mansbach
Illustrator: Ricardo Cortés
Format: Video (link, NSFW, whole mess of cursing)

Okay, so, I’m putting this on the list because if it had been out when I was a kid, my parents would have bought it without a second thought and read it to me every night.

This book got serious tread when a copy of it was leaked as a PDF online, and so seeing it’s success come full circle, from digital to print and back, is really cool.

The art is great. The rhymes are brilliant. Every page makes me burst out laughing. There’s not a whole lot to say when it comes to plot, but there doesn’t really need to be one, I don’t think.

This video features narration by Samuel L. Jackson, so this video, between the great art and text and the absolute hilarity of one of Hollywood’s biggest badasses reading a twisted kid’s book, is just flawless.

I’m giving it ten stars, because it’s the best kid’s book ever. Literally ever.

Recommend? Heck, I’ve already recommended it to everyone ever.
Three Words? Hilarious, Flawless, Clever.

Picture that. In your dreams.

Walk up in the club like what up I gotta big cock

Nah, just pumped, I got some shit from the thrift shop

fishingboatproceeds:

A+++

maybe read this and tell me if it sucks thank 

Okay so here’s the first part of the short story I’m working on for my creative fic class’ workshop thing.

I still have four weeks until my first draft is due but while I have ideas I may as well get them down.

The current working title is “Skeletons in the Closet” although I feel like that’s really heavy-handed and also dumb, but what can you do?

Okay, here we go:

“James, don’t be such a pussy.”
    “I’m not sure, man. Is this really such a good idea?”
    The first couple leaves of autumn, dropped by a few trees who had gotten too excited about the start of September, skittered across the crumbling concrete of the sidewalk beneath their feet.

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chrybo:

folie-a-killjoy:

sherlocktogolftardisimpala:

kataanging:

jamess-earring:

Augustus and Hazel go clubbing

The Fault In Our Bars

Augustus and Hazel run out of gas

The Fault In Our Cars

Augustus and Hazel become astronauts

The Fault In Our Mars

Augustus and Hazel take…

Augustus and Hazel get lost in the middle of no where,

The Fault in Fars 

(No, this is why we don’t let Jenna have nice things.)

Augustus and Hazel contract a deadly airborne illness

The Fault in Our SARS

Augustus and Hazel see the issues that arise when being close friends with the drummer from Metallica

The Fault in Our Lars

Augustus and Hazel are terrible at the guitar

The Fault in our Barres

Augustus and Hazel go shopping in a busy market filled with all sorts of products, however, they’re out of money

The Fault in Our Bazaars

So I read a short story in my creative writing class called “Paul’s Case” and I really really liked it because it expresses mental illness and neuroticism in a way I couldn’t ever manage to express and it did it in 1905 when that wasn’t even a thing we knew much about

And we discussed it and I was like the only person who liked Paul and I think I basically just admitted to being crazy and occasionally suicidal and painfully acute of bullshit things and I really don’t know how I feel about this

A friend of mine is reading House of Leaves for the first time, on my recommendation. A recent text exchange on the subject: 

• Friend: The footnotes have begun to become a maze.
• Me: Yes. They do that. Have you had to start rotating the book to read them yet?
• Friend: No.
• Friend: Wait.
• Friend: Yes.

david:

House of Leaves is really hard to read out loud.

david karp blogged about hol

david karp

blogged

about hol

"Whoever finds and publishes this work shall be entitled to all proceeds. I ask only that my name take its rightful place. Perhaps you will even prosper. If, however, you discover that readers are less than sympathetic and choose to dismiss this enterprise out of hand, then may I suggest you drink plenty of wine and dance in the sheets of your wedding night, for whether you know it or not, now you truly are prosperous. They say truth stands the test of time. I can think of no greater comfort than knowing this document failed such a test."

mutantmagic:

Required Reading