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libby the mimsy borogove

Turning bullshit into marmalade

About Me

I'm a shooting star leaping through the skies like a tiger defying the laws of gravity.

My Interests

I am the very model of a modern major

I'd like to meet:

You! That is, assuming you have the other half of the amulet. Otherwise you're wasting my precious time.

Music:

cisuM

Movies:

seivoM

Television:

noisiveleT

Books:

Nabokov, Dorothy Parker, Jim Thompson, Raymond Chandler, House of Leaves, Brave New World, The Girl's Guide to Hunting and Fishing, Vineland, Contortionist's Handbook, and the rest of the gallimaufry.

Heroes:

The "Accidentes" guy. 222-2222.

My Blog

angles and frames

Ashley said the moon is in Pisces, so I took her advice and wrote.The shiny pink of the inside of her ear is a shell you tell your stories to. She'll listen graciously, without letting her heel dig to...
Posted by libby the mimsy borogove on Tue, 23 Oct 2007 01:59:00 PST

I recommend pleasant.

Elwood P. Dowd: I'd just put Ed Hickey into a taxi. Ed had been mixing his rye with his gin, and I just felt that he needed conveying. Well, anyway, I was walking down along the street and I heard thi...
Posted by libby the mimsy borogove on Sat, 13 Oct 2007 02:04:00 PST

The world according to a melon-baller on the faux marble counter.

She was just leaning on a piano, two gin and tonics past small talk, letting the chords tremble all the way down to her heels and back to her shoulders. All eyes on her or none, Madeline didn't give i...
Posted by libby the mimsy borogove on Fri, 28 Sep 2007 01:08:00 PST

Chi dara fine al gran dolore? Lore.

The first time I ever did mushrooms I remember watching this yellow flower bloom and then wilt and then bloom and then wilt, and it almost would have made me cry in that appreciative, circular way if ...
Posted by libby the mimsy borogove on Thu, 27 Sep 2007 02:38:00 PST

I love that Klosterman devil.

This is the greatest thing I read all night.
Posted by libby the mimsy borogove on Sun, 09 Sep 2007 01:31:00 PST

knit me a history

I've grown bored with the plotGrowled the line to the dotBut I'm certainly notA tight-shoelaced have-notSo if I should forgetA quick-wit silhouetteI'll have won my own betWhich'll knock off my debtAnd...
Posted by libby the mimsy borogove on Sun, 09 Sep 2007 12:57:00 PST

Heres a little ditty I like to call

Seventeen waking hours in a day. Seven days in a week. About sixteen weeks in a semester.I start classes on Monday and my books are already busy building mazes in my brain, Danielewski leading the way...
Posted by libby the mimsy borogove on Fri, 24 Aug 2007 09:22:00 PST

dot dot dot dot dot dot and maybe a brief polka

As Felix scraped at the curve of a lemon with his index fingernail, he began down the spiral staircase of convincing himself that her pupils were in fact nothing like what he'd once mistaken them for....
Posted by libby the mimsy borogove on Wed, 27 Jun 2007 10:14:00 PST

I need to twenty in french.

I am such a terrible procrastinator, and now it has come to bite me in the ass. I have four papers to write, three of which I have done absolutely no reasearch on. I have sixteen journal entries to pu...
Posted by libby the mimsy borogove on Fri, 18 May 2007 11:03:00 PST

And the queen bellowed, "Nevah have I seen such utter nineteenery!"

Huxley put the first thought into my head. I am not a square peg forced into a round hole. I am not designed to chase solemn roman numerals on an outline of my life. I am not as skeptical as my mother...
Posted by libby the mimsy borogove on Mon, 23 Apr 2007 09:30:00 PST