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Mighty Love: Nothing But Bonfires
Nothing But Bonfires is written by travel writer Holly Burns, who grew up all over the globe and landed here in San Francisco. We met at Blogher, during the Mighty Haus launch party, and I was too wine-soaked to insist that she sit down and relay her entire life story. Check out her about page first, as her life story is a good one. An excerpt:
“My favorite piece of punctuation is the parentheses, with the semi-colon taking a close second. Things I like include: oatmeal, going to the library, gold shoes, the word “brouhaha,” Trader Joe’s, beauty products with clever names, reliving scenes from My So Called Life in my head, black licorice, the page in Us Weekly where they say “Stars: They’re Just Like Us” and then show them looking zitty and doing laundry, San Pellegrino, Target, Mark Ruffalo, when people say things like “um, clean up in aisle three from all the names you just dropped,” German accents, free samples, people who can drive stick, hydrangeas, when the phone rings in the middle of the night and it’s just a wrong number and NOT someone on the other side of the world dying, men in pink shirts, and Nigella Lawson.“
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Mighty Love: Zulkey
Zulkey is a thinky humor site, and I met Claire Zulkey years ago at SxSW. It turns out she’s still smart, and funny, and good at getting it all down on paper. An excerpt.
“Things I Have Learned About Vegetable-Matter-Based Packing Peanuts
1) They can be dissolved and thus washed down the drain
2) They taste like Pirate’s Booty
3) Demonstrating how I learned this makes people uncomfortable.“
Mighty Love: A Cup of Tea and a Wheat Penny
I met Zan at the Mighty Haus launch party, and I wish I’d had more time to get to know her while she was in town. She writes over at A Cup of Tea and a Wheat Penny and lives in New York. An excerpt from her site:
“They’re all readers down here in the tunnels, just like up on the buses. Only here they turn the pages faster.
An older couple embarks; the woman finds a seat. I stand to offer the man my seat, and he politely waves me back down.
‘You sit. You’d better finish your coffee, before you spill it.’
‘Sir, I’m not allowed to drink coffee on the train. You’re not even supposed to know I have it.’
A girl pulls a notebook hurriedly from her handbag, as if the thought might fly from her mind before she has a chance to capture it in its perfectly formed newborn state. She clicks open her pen and writes:
‘Download RADIOHEAD!!!’
With two underscores.“
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What’s Yours
Poem from the May 12 New Yorker:
One Can Miss Mountains
and pine. One
can dismiss
a whisper’s
revelations
and go on as
before as if
everything were
perfectly fine.
One does. One
loses wonder
among stores
of things.
One can even miss
the basso boom
of the ocean’s
rumpus room
and its rhythm.
A man can leave
this earth
and take nothing
–not even
longing–along
with him.
Worth Repeating
Catching up on a year’s worth of old magazine subscriptions. Some snips:
Julie Morgenstern in O Magazine — “If I ran out of time today, what would be the one thing that, completed, would give me the greatest sense of accomplishment and contribution?”
New Yorker Mar. 20 article “Pretty Things,” about Hedi Silmane models — “They seemed in imminent danger of getting laid.”
Dave Grohl in Esquire Nov. 2007 — “Anybody who has to focus on being real has a problem. It’s like having a panic attack over how you’re prone to panic attacks.”
