Tag: andy bachman
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Poem By Charles Simic
Reblogged from Andy Bachman’s Water Over Rocks… “Birds Singing of Fair Weather As They Crap” Graveside Oration Our late friend hated blue skies, Bible-quoting preachers, Politicians kissing babies, Women who are all sweetness. He liked drunks in church, Nudists playing volleyball, Stray dogs making friends, Birds singing of fair weather as they crap. –Charles Simic
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Poem By Thomas Lynch
It’s bone cold tonight in Brooklyn, the snow has long buried the cars and the bikes. As I walked Dash home from a friend’s house, I thought about Andy Bachman‘s new post, how “I don’t feel lonely as much as I feel grateful for the odd proximity of Christmas Eve.” Buried in the glimmering crystal,…
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Lost In Reading: Two Posts By My Favorite 12 Year-Old
From the blog of wunderkind Audrey Bachman, whose blog about her love for reading makes me love reading her blog… Thursday, May 27, 2010 Just Saying… This will be pretty quick– just wanted to say that creative writing class on Thursday is just about the best thing that has ever happened to me. And that’s about…
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Prospect Heights, Brooklyn: Street Cred & The Car Fire To Prove It
Recently, Fucked In Park Slope published this beautiful photo that was taken a few years ago by someone who looked out their window in Park Slope and saw flames. When they looked closer, they saw it was an Access-A-Ride, on fire. Crazy thing is that my wife just called to tell me that last night,…
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Another Reason To Love Stephen Colbert
There’s no press release about this, no photo distributed via AP. It’s just a quiet visit by Stephen Colbert to the bedside of a woman named Wynne, who has metastatic breast cancer. Andy Bachman told me about Wynne, yesterday. She’s a huge fan of the Colbert Report, and today Colbert himself paid her a visit…