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Blue Jeans - Lana Del Ray
You’re gonna hate me for loving this song. I’m gonna keep on listening anyway.
Rebecca Hazelwood is a writer who puts off writing until she can stand it no longer. She loves poetry. She teaches college freshmen how to write and tries to survive graduate school. She is native to Kentucky, but she has lived in Missouri and France. Now she lives in Georgia.
She also collaborates on Structure and Style, a new poetry blog.
A Gut Check for Many Ailments (via blxnblcks)
This explains a lot.
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Many people with psychiatric and brain conditions also report gastrointestinal issues. New research indicates problems in the gut may cause problems in the brain, just as a mental ailment, such as anxiety, can upset the stomach.
Stanford’s Dr. Pasricha and colleagues examined this question in the lab by irritating the stomachs of newborn rats. By the time the animals were eight to 10 weeks old, the physical disturbance had healed, but these animals displayed more depressed and anxious behaviors, such as giving up more quickly in a swimming task, than rats whose stomachs weren’t irritated.
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Kindle Daily Deal: The Best American Noir of the Century ($1.99, today only)
Hello, mysteries, m’love. (Maybe this means I’ve been watching too much Castle.)
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(via nathanieljams) Robin Thicke. Jay-Z. Jay’s face. I’m in love.
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CAN’T HUG EVERY CAT - a song about loving cats
This is basically the dramatic version of both my roommate and my best friend. Both are married. Maybe I should let my inner cat lover out, if I don’t want to be single for life.
My favorite is this one, but I am writing about my father. I am working through both trauma and a book.
6. She will continually write about her mother or her days as an addict or some ethereal night in a place you do not know. You will think that she’s working through a trauma; she will say, no, she’s working on a book.
Julia Sugarbaker on the lottery, Designing Women season five, episode 10 (“Keep the Homefires Burning”)
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Doesn’t it strike any of you all as odd that people will foam at the mouth at the merest suggestion of a tax increase but they will crawl butt-naked and blindfolded across a minefield for a chance to throw their money down a government-sanctioned rathole?
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Come on Feel the Illinoise. Six-year-old t-shirt, holes and all. (Taken with instagram)
Mary Ellen Miller, “Red” from The Poet’s Wife Speaks
Reminds you of Mark Strand’s “Eating Poetry,” no? If you like this, go check out MEM’s poem “Desire” on Structure and Style.
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At night I eat my metaphorsand wipe my mouth with similes.
My naughty parts glow in the dark.
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Why is pop music the only art form that still inspires such arrantly stupid discussion? The debates that surround authenticity have no relationship to popular music as it’s been practiced for more than a century. Artists write material, alone or with assistance, revise it, and then present a final work created with the help of professionals who are trained for specific and relevant production tasks. This makes popular music similar to film, television, visual art, books, dance, and related areas like food and fashion. And yet no movie review begins, ‘Meryl Streep, despite not being a Prime Minister, is reasonably convincing in “The Iron Lady.”’
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