my life, tumbl'd.
Feb 10
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Tumblr ToDo

I fully realize how stupid this is, but it’s worked in the past. So here is my new tumblr todo. And boy do I need it right now, as I’ve relapsed like a motherfucker in more ways than one.

1. Stop with the stupid ass smoking

2. back to running 50+ miles a week

3. the one thing I need to do. focus like a lunatic on this

4. avoid “entanglements” at all costs

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Jan 20
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wish i was here right now.

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Jan 12
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note to self

32nd birthday would be nice to spend as such:

  • room at the chelsea
  • moma in the morning/early afternoon
  • out to brooklyn to apc warehouse store
  • dinner somewhere awesome
  • literary drinks tour (algonquin, white horse, chumleys)
  • ?????????
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Jan 03
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Well Holy Shit

So I wrote this last year:

  1. quit smoking for real.  have three left, it’s enough of this shit.
  2. run marathon - qualify for boston
  3. get back in school
  4. start writing a lot again (class starts 2/5)
  5. find a healthy relationship, excepting that be good with being alone


I didn’t think of them as resolutions at the time, but looking back, they kinda were. Taking stock now, I had a pretty successful year based on what I wanted to accomplish.

  1. Did this. I’ve been bad the past few days, but I don’t smoke sober anymore, at all.
  2. ran a marathon. qualified for boston.
  3. this is in progress. applications are out, fingers are crossed.
  4. this is done too, trying to go back to school to write even more.
  5. lalalalala alalalal lallalalalal la la la

Gonna give it some thought and come up some goals for this year, but right now I only have one. Well, maybe two.

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Dec 17
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Jesus Christ I'm Funny

  • me: indeed. wow. have you seen idiocracy?
  • autumnashby: YES!
  • me: ok, you know the montage where the stupid people procreate like crazy?
  • autumnashby: Yes.
  • me: so i'm looking at this wedding from this dood who i went to hs with on the old facebook and it's clearly taking place in some sort of firehall or vfw and i know he's already got like two kids, and this broad he's marrying has a couple and to look at the two of them you'd be shocked to learn that either of them breathe through their noses with ease and i start to realize, looking at this wedding, as a barren, single fella in his 30's, that it's sorta like watching that montage....in real time
  • autumnashby: LOL
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Oct 30
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Hmm. Really must start tumbling more. Maybe it’s time for a(nother) proper blog.

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Oct 08
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chessie’s awesome new game

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this isn’t gonna win me any straight guy competitions

this isn’t gonna win me any straight guy competitions

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Sep 23
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and more progress.

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a little progress

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Sep 15
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Sep 10
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new pad. undecorated and such.

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Sep 02
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so emo

since i’m feeling very emo lately, i’ve decided to channel my white boy man pain into a really bad idea. that really bad idea being rap. i’m going to sample the whitest songs i can find and rap in the least rhythmic drone possible about how much my heart hurts. first up, a song sampling the beginning of this song:

doesn’t get much whiter than that.

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Jul 30
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  • me: explain to me again how twilight vampires can go in the sun?
  • Sent at 2: 55 PM on Thursday
  • Colleen: the can go in
  • but
  • wait for it
  • they sparkle
  • and it would give away their secret
  • me: but they're vampires
  • Colleen: so?
  • me: VAMPIRES CAN'T GO IN THE FUCKIN SUN
  • Colleen: silly greg
  • me: it's like rule 1, maybe 2 after drinking blood
  • Colleen: that's just a myth
  • me: i'm tumbling this, as proof to my unborn, never to be born children that i did not get down with this shit when it was popular, and that i was a vampire purist...should the topic ever arise
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Jun 12
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Free Books (for facebook)

FREE BOOKS

In, what will no doubt be a fruitless effort, to declutter my life a bit, I’m getting rid of some books. I’m way too lazy to be bothered with selling or trading them, and I hate to think of them gathering dust in a charity shop. As such, I’m offering them here on the old facebook before I cart them off.

Take a look at the list and email me if you want anything. Obviously it’s way more convenient for me if live in or around the greater philadelphia area. If you don’t, we can probably figure something out though. So seriously, email me, take these shits. Help curb my compulsion to hoard before I become one of those people who gets buried and dies in an avalanche of their own stuff and doesn’t get found for weeks.

The books are (in alpha order by author)

henderson the rain king saul bellow

the tortilla curtain tc boyle

ham on rye charles bukowski

junky william burroughs

dry augusten burroughs

the amazing adventures of kavalier and clay michael chabon

the mysteries of pittsburgh michael chabon

eleanor rigby douglas coupland little shit nommed on this a bit
the brief and wonderful life of oscar wao junot diaz

paddy clark, ha ha ha roddy doyle

snapper roddy doyle

the van roddy doyle

the woman who walked into doors roddy doyle

foucaults pendulum umberto eco

go down moses william faulkner

sanctuary william faulkner

a fable william faulkner

requiem for a nun william faulkner

broom of the system david foster wallace

brief interviews with hideous men david foster wallace

american gods neil gaiman

the motorcycle diaries che guevara rough shape
a letter to a christian nation sam harris

a long way down nick hornby

the elementary particles michel houellebecq

the doors of perception aldous huxley

world according to garp john irving

lake wobegon days garrison keillor

sailor song ken kesey

darkness at noon arthur koestler

the unbearable lightness of being milan kundera

fortress of solitude jonathan lethem

the razor’s edge w somerset maugham

atonement ian mcewan

amsterdam ian mcewan

beloved toni morrison

thus spoke zarathustra friedrich nietzsche

snow orhan pamuk

the moviegoer walker percy

ishmael daniel quinn

one day in september simon reeve

portnoy’s complaint philip roth

human stain philip roth

everything is illuminated jonathan safran foer dog chewed a bit
extremely loud and incredibly close jonathan safran foer

blindness jose saramago

the braindead microphone george saunders

fast food nation eric schlosser

leaves of grass walt whitman

the professor and the madman simon winchester

revolutionary road richard yates

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