October 2010
20 posts
“No-pants-time, because why would I be wearing pants in my own house?”
—Sam, while taking off his pants to settle down and get some thesising done.
“If there’s nobody else to do it.”
—Sarah Palin, on fing Entertainment Tonight (WTF) about whether she’ll run in 2012. That’s definitely how I want my president to feel about being in charge, and the forum I want them to use to discuss important things.
“Nobody tells this to people who are beginners, I wish someone told me. All of us who do creative work, we get into it because we have good taste. But there is this gap. For the first couple years you make stuff, it’s just not that good. It’s trying to be good, it has potential, but it’s not. But your taste, the thing that got you into the game, is still killer. And your taste is why your work disappoints you. A lot of people never get past this phase, they quit. Most people I know who do interesting, creative work went through years of this. We know our work doesn’t have this special thing that we want it to have. We all go through this. And if you are just starting out or you are still in this phase, you gotta know its normal and the most important thing you can do is do a lot of work. Put yourself on a deadline so that every week you will finish one story. It is only by going through a volume of work that you will close that gap, and your work will be as good as your ambitions. And I took longer to figure out how to do this than anyone I’ve ever met. It’s gonna take awhile. It’s normal to take awhile. You’ve just gotta fight your way through.”
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Ira Glass (via Rabbit Write’s interview on Gala Darling) (via healywu)
WUAHGHGHHHHH THIS IS WHAT I’M DEALING WITH RIGHT NOW!
Some cents for clarification
i’d like to make clear my previous post was considering columbus only if he showed up at the bar today, in our modern times. i theorize he’d be stripped of all native-killing clout, due to his absurd hat and inability to identify with “kids today.” if we’re talking about him in his natural environment then i say “f columbus.” also the value in spending more tumbles on this is kind of a never forget kind of a thing. columbus, you were a jerk and the only thing we can do about it is say so.
The thing about columbus day is
that it’s really irrelevant what kind of dude columbus was. maybe he was chill. maybe he was a dick. i think he was probably that guy that comes and sits down at your table at the bar, thinking he’s going to “join you,” and even though it would really be appropriate to be quite rude, you can’t bring yourself to do it because then you’d spend more time feeling bad about it than you would being satisfied he left. the real pisser about him is that we still “celebrate” this bullshit day, when he was just some obnoxious douche at the bar who got embraced by the powers that decide government holidays. “discovering” something that was already friggin inhabited is not a reason for my new jacket to be delayed. wtf, i want some mail.
