I could live all my life and never come up with anything as funny as Raygun, the 36-year-old Australian Olympic breakdancer
mariah
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mariah
@mariahkreutter
currently mfa @ nyu | work in @thedrift_mag @joylandmagazine @thebafflermag @nytimes etc | blog: mariahkreutter.substack.com
- My friend said the male-female bathroom line differential at the brutalist was “worse than pavement”
- sucks how these days if you want to throw a party you have to make a dumb little graphic with your head photoshopped onto a pumpkin or whatever and send it to everyone you know via like 8 different communication methods. this is the one bad thing about the abandonment of facebook
- if i lived in southern europe and came to new york and saw that one glass of wine was $16 plus tip i would kill myself. i would literally swim home
- the blood orange is such an intriguing fruit. it comes perfectly segmented, a gracious act of man and nature. yet to reveal its true vibrancy one must mutilate it
- one of my best qualities is i have no critical impulse towards music. music: i like it or i don’t! music: it sounds good or it doesn’t! the remarkable thing is that i nevertheless have impeccable taste
- huge fan of this european thing where you hike up a mountain and there’s a decent restaurant on top
- Replying to @mariahkreutterWhy are people saying raygun reminds them of Billie eilish. Obviously the 17-year-old Lithuanian in a durag is Billie eilish
- The thing about “ambitious” fiction is, you can’t just decide you’re going to write like Faulkner or Joyce and then receive audits for writing like Faulkner or Joyce. You have to actually be as good, sentence by sentence, as Faulkner or Joyce. Crucial step being skipped over
- i love dry january!!! i’m not doing it but i love it
- I was at this reading and started vibrating when I realized what was happening. I will read every selin novel until I die, I want elif batuman to keep writing selin novels until it gets weird in a borgesian map-of-the-world-the-size-of-the-world kind of waynew book in the idiot series by elif batuman, SELINHEADS MAKE SOME NOISE!!!!
- writing is fun. you lot complain too much
- cormac mccarthy, the author of one of my all-time favorite works of literature (the first 8 or 10 paragraphs of blood meridian) and of perhaps my least favorite work of literature (the rest of blood meridian)
