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Megan Boyle
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born
October 15, 1985
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January 2011
About this author
this morning i read about 35% of rachel hyman's liveblog-style review of my book while driving from philadelphia to baltimore
when i was around 25% complete i had the idea to liveblog a review of her review but didn't put my phone down until i saw a cop a few minutes later
rachel also thought to liveblog her review after she had started reading
here are things i remember thinking while re...
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Selected Unpublished Blog Posts of a Mexican Panda Express Employee
  4.12 avg rating — 128 ratings
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2011
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Very Beautiful Women
by Ana C., Ani Smith (Goodreads Author), Elaine Sun 5.00 avg rating — 20 ratings
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2011
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Pear Noir! (#3)
by Daniel Casebeer , Lily Hoang, Rich Ives 4.45 avg rating — 20 ratings
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2009
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Megan Boyle
"The blogger and essayist lays bare her emotions in Selected Unpublished Blog Posts of a Mexican Panda Express Employee, her intimate debut collection of poetry." ...More
"The blogger and essayist lays bare her emotions in Selected Unpublished Blog Posts of a Mexican Panda Express Employee, her intimate debut collection of poetry." ...More
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| My friend and I went on a road trip this summer and she read "Sasquatch," "Nine Ten," and the story about the man who works at a library and sits in the back seat of a car driven by high school kids who either toilet paper or egg a house aloud to me....more | |
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| I read "Eeeee..." in 30-60 minute installments while walking ~3.5mph at a 15.0 grade incline on a treadmill in 2009. I remember feeling like I hadn't read anything like that before, where it seemed like the author was writing from a place of hopeless...more | |
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| I think I've read "Shoplifting from American Apparel" 2.5 times, and have intermittently re-read select passages from it (the "Moby meeting"/party where things are confusing and funny, following the "crazy Asian homeless person"/community service, an...more | |
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| I bought this book at a Barnes & Noble in 2007, a few days after reading "Bed" and looking at Tao Lin's blog. My dad and I sat in the parking lot looking at/reading what we bought. The book is pink and feels `sleek' and I had a weird feeling that...more | |
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| I think "you are a little bit happier than i am" is usually the first book people read by Tao Lin, as it is his first. I read it last. I think when people always refer to "Tao Lin" style poetry they're referring to this book. Seems like the iconic fi...more | |
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"pink hamster’ recently criticized for not knowing what the word ‘meta’ means practicing a LOOKBOOK.nu pose titled ‘Practicing A LOOKBOOK.nu Pose In Anticipation of a Rumored LOOKBOOK.nu for Hamsters’ in anticipation of a rumored LOOKBOOK.nu for hamsters worried that LOOKBOOK.nu for hamsters will never be created and beginning to think (causing its eyes to unfocus slightly) of another way to show that it knows what the word ‘meta’ means and if maybe there’s a way to incorporate all of this, as it is, without the existence of LOOKBOOK.nu for hamsters, into one thing that would show to its detractors that it definitely knows what the word ‘meta’ means"
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"does a society exist where it's become acceptable to wear 'helmets' enclosing one's entire head when in public to preempt social interaction"
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“being sick feels like you're wearing someone else's glasses”
― Megan Boyle, Selected Unpublished Blog Posts of a Mexican Panda Express Employee
― Megan Boyle, Selected Unpublished Blog Posts of a Mexican Panda Express Employee
“i wish i had 15-20 cats that would serve as a blanket, like if i moved they would adjust to my new position, that would be good”
― Megan Boyle
― Megan Boyle
“Something was comforting about strangers—it seemed like they would exist forever as the same, unknowable mass.”
― Megan Boyle
― Megan Boyle
“It is 10 PM now, and Godzilla has been sitting at his desk in front of his laptop for six to seven hours. He has accomplished hardly anything today. Godzilla is drinking a lot of beer. He can not stop smoking cigarettes. His room is blue with cigarette smoke, and Godzilla sits on a chair in there, minimizing and maximizing Mozilla Firefox repeatedly. He is not over his girlfriend's house because she said on the cell phone that she needed time, alone, to think about their relationship. Godzilla worries that he will not be able to take care of himself if they break up.”
― Brandon Scott Gorrell
― Brandon Scott Gorrell
“i don't want to hate the president
i don't want to go to harvard
i don't want to win the pulitzer prize
i just want to sit in my bathtub
and think about relationships i will never have
with people i will never meet
and then go lay in my bed
with a magnifying glass
and count all the stiches in my sheets
until i fall asleep
and wake up
to repeat again.”
― Ellen Kennedy
i don't want to go to harvard
i don't want to win the pulitzer prize
i just want to sit in my bathtub
and think about relationships i will never have
with people i will never meet
and then go lay in my bed
with a magnifying glass
and count all the stiches in my sheets
until i fall asleep
and wake up
to repeat again.”
― Ellen Kennedy
“Judy's friend that she has known the longest has just broken up with her boyfriend and is depressed. Judy likes her more now that she is depressed and feels unmotivated in life. Judy feels unmotivated in life.”
― Ellen Kennedy
― Ellen Kennedy
“Scott goes to the computer and loads a chart that says something about global warming. Scott says, "See?" Judy says, "I don't think global warming is important, people shouldn't need to use global warming as an excuse to stop being wasteful." Scott says, "How can you not believe this?" Judy says, "There has been golf ball-sized hail storms and hurricanes for a long time, it didn't just start all of the sudden. In the movie Al Gore drives in an SUV." Scott leaves to have a cigarette. Cory says, "Al Gore owns his own farm." Judy stares at the TV. Judy thinks, "No one in this room cares about global warming, this is ridiculous, we are all smoking cigarettes and eating cheese, how can any one of us care about voting? No one in this room cares about anything.”
― Ellen Kennedy
― Ellen Kennedy
