February 2012
42 posts
theloveliestvillain asked: You're terribly interesting. I guess this isn't really a question.
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Texts From This Morning
Stuff I've learned this week
1. Contrary to what I’ve believed to be true for the year and a half I’ve used Paypal when selling things on eBay — and more recently, Etsy — the payments I accept from people do not automatically end up in my bank account. This came as a surprise to me, as I just assumed that was why they asked for the routing number on my checks. I didn’t discover this sooner...
"The Nighthawks": 17-year Reunion, Special...
It’s Valentines Day, so I meet Charlie for a drink at a place by his work in El Cerrito. He’s late. I sit at the bar and try to identify the vaguely familiar alt-rock song on the digital jukebox. I think it’s Dave Navarro’s post-Janes Addiction but pre-Red Hot Chili Peppers band, the one that sounds like Butthole Surfers but totally insufferable. I can’t remember the...
“We die to each other daily. What we know of other people is only our memory of...”
– T.S. Eliot, from The Cocktail Party (1949)
OkCupid Chat / Pedophile Decoy Training
okcupid bro: what are you up to tonight?
me: might go to a $5 movie at jack london
okcbro: nice. what's playing?
me: chronicle
me: ghost rider - the spirit of vengeance 3D
okcbro: would you like to meet?
me: lol
me: that sounds very "to catch a predator"
okcbro: yeah, you're right
me: but sure, why not. i'll just tell mom i'm sleeping over at kristin's
okcbro: are you a cop?
me: please take a seat over there.
okcbro: but i was just gonna hang out with her, watch some movies!
me: then why do you have a twelve-pack of strawberry condoms & arbor mist???
okcbro: i just wanted to party, man!!!!
spikeykahuna asked: Jesus, Jane, you're not even close to 30 yet, right? You've still got plenty of time to be young and in love. Also, love your writing, it's smart and oft times brave.
7.19.05
I have never been, and am now too old to be ‘young and in love’. I feel disheartened, uncertain, and so very old.
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pillow33 - also oakland based,...
ON THAT ET$Y GRIND →
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taylor: chicken & waffles? i owe you.
jane: you're late. soon though.
taylor: for sure, soon. i have money, which is a rarity, so take advantage of it.
jane: oh, i will. i almost texted you tonight. but then some other dude took me to taco bell.
“On walls around the city, next to flyers for job openings and syphilis clinics,...”
– Leslie Chang, from Factory Girls. 2008.
**trite yeats reference**
I’ve kind of always known that my life has no greater “purpose,” and that in the course of human existence nothing I do — no matter how big or how small — will really matter, and I’ve always found this very freeing, since it means all I need strive for is comfort, intellectual stimulation, and contentment on the level of the day to day. The false obligation to...
January 2012
29 posts
Oblivious, party of one
Earlier today my friend Sarah & her roommates had a pop-up vintage clothing sale at their house, and I rolled through even though I don’t need new clothes at all, just b/c I wanted to hang out and drink a little… anyway, I’m there for a little bit, kind of absentmindedly trying things on just ‘cause, and this girl compliments my jewelry and says, “You must have a...
Unloveable.
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Fuck My Tear Ducts With Your Coke Dick
Besides the rather mundane new complications presenting themselves in my life — such as school, and that I’m very likely to be laid off in two weeks — the most, well, I suppose, significant? recent development is the abrupt departure of a Janebook fan favorite. I refer, of course, to Shoe Guy, my costar in a very long-running series of intermittent bootycalls I might even sum up...
“It smells like sweaty Mexicans back here!”
– Loud middle school boy in the last row of Muni