January 2012
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When I was at my most stressed out in Singapore, I would look up flights that would leave to the US the very next day. I could do it, I told myself. I could leave without telling my boss or my landlord that I was leaving. And then I would feel better about my life because I was still, theoretically, in control.
I just remembered that I took a shower once in the Incheon Airport in Korea. That seems pretty weird to me right now.
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Walt Whitman’s brain is in a jar in Philadelphia. I want to go visit it.
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In 2010 Mark Baumer walked across the entire United States (from Georgia to California) which he documented on his tumblr, The Baumer. This year he’s writing 50 novels. On Sunday he asked Tom Hanks for $50,000 dollars to cover costs for that project. Tom Hanks declined. So now he’s asking the rest of us for $50,000 on Kickstarter. He sent me this exclusive excerpt from his novel I Only...
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I just opened a piece of gum and put it in my mouth while thinking, “I’ve been chewing a lot of gum lately.” Then I discovered when I started to chew that I was already, in fact, chewing another piece of gum from less than an hour ago.
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“The perfect man is pure spirit. He does not feel the heat of the burning deserts nor the cold of the vast waters. He is not frightened by the lightning which can split open mountains, nor by the storms that can whip upon the seas. Such a person rides the clouds and mounts upon the sun and moon, and wanders across and beyond the four seas. Neither death nor life concern him, nor is he...
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