This is Just to Say...
North of 60'r living life below the Mason Dixon
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Meet our Advisory Editor, Meg Reid! Meg is an alumna of the UNCW MFA program. We love her and we knew you would too, so we asked her a few questions so y’all could get to know her:
Favorite author, book, journal? What do you like? “My favorite author is Joan Didion (in particular, Slouching Towards Bethlehem & The White Album), but lately I’ve been rereading John Jeremiah Sullivan’s Pulphead, and Jonathan Franzen’s fiction and nonfiction (Freedom and The Discomfort Zone). Favorite journals include The Believer, The Oxford American, Tin House—any journal where fantastic writing and thoughtful design converge. The Common is beautiful newcomer.”
Hit us with a place-based factoid/story about yourself: ”I lived for fifteen years in Maine, where the resident moose population (over 76k, in rough estimates) is over triple the human population of our capital city, Augusta (19k).”
Your favorite thing Ecotone ever published? “I think Terry Tempest William’s A Disturbance of Birds from our Sex & Death issue is one of the most powerful pieces of nonfiction we’ve published. Also, Jill Sisson-Quinn’s Sign Here If You Exist. I found this piece (on death, rebirth and enormous moths) as a submission and heartily championed it through the editorial process. I was excited to do an interview with Jill for our website last spring.”
Something random? ” I’m a very lost Canadian, which means when people walk into me, I apologize. Also, I’ve been told my pronunciation of vowels is very suspect.”
And that, dear readers, is Meg in 4 questions and a picture! Want to meet the rest of our staff? Stay tuned! -
http://www.fringemagazine.org/lit/its-alright-mitt-were-only-bleeding-an-open-letter-to-mitt-romney/
“So Mitt, I close by saying I hope you don’t think I hate you because you’re rich. You dared to paint half the country with one broad brush and deem the poor not worthy of your worry. And so, I have deemed your candidacy not worthy of mine.
Millions of people have been underemployed or unemployed for far more weeks, months, or even years than I have. I have no right to speak for them, nor do you. Just as you have no right to utter the words my fellow Americans and expect any of us to buy your myth for one day longer.” -
Photo reblogged from Typeverything
Typeverything.com - The harder you work, the luckier you get by Studio Muti.
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I have a cat with a sad face.
I question his mental state often.
Am now looking for pictures of other people’s sad cats. Here!
ismycatdepressed.tumblr.com!
(Catchy!)
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After living through the rainy season, and never getting around to buying a raincoat, I’ve decided I can’t take this any longer. I hate rain jackets, I always have, since I was little, but I admit they’re necessary.
Anyone have any recommendations for places to look (online, stores) for cheap, stylish raincoats? We’re not talking ponchos here, but also I don’t want to spend a huge amount of money (>$60, if at all possible?)
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Quote reblogged from STFU, ConservativesNazis don’t have the right to put up a sign next to the Holocaust museum in Washington,” Gingrich said Monday on Fox News. “There is no reason for us to accept a mosque next to the World Trade Center.
Debate over mosque near ‘ground zero’ splits Republicans - latimes.com
Muslims = Nazis!
(via sexartandpolitics)
(via stfuconservatives)
Which is hilarious to me because yesterday, when talking about this whole ridiculousness, I said it would be like holding all Christians responsible for what Hitler did. Nazis = political movement, that happened to actually be Christian.
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Tonight we’re going to go to Wrightsville and see if we can see some meteors. Is the prime viewing spot? No, there’s probably too much light. Is it the prime viewing time (11pm)? Probably not. Will it be a beautiful night at the beach with a blanket and bottle of wine? Most definitely.
