<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xml:lang="en"><title>Latest entries from scribblefaster.blog-city.com</title><rights>Copyright 2009 scribblefaster.blog-city.com</rights><subtitle></subtitle><author><name></name></author><updated>2009-06-11T00:40:00Z</updated><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://scribblefaster.blog-city.com/"/><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://scribblefaster.blog-city.com/index.rss"/><id>tag:scribblefaster.blog-city.com,2009:1</id><entry><id>tag:scribblefaster.blog-city.com,2008-06-09:links.412108786</id><title>a few years in a few sentences</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://scribblefaster.blog-city.com/a_few_years_in_a_few_sentences.htm"><![CDATA[The Scribble Faster blog was stopped a few years ago, but the projects continue. If you got here from a zine link (either listed in the Scribble Faster zine or referred from another zine), and you&#39;d like to get more issues, you can buy them from]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://scribblefaster.blog-city.com/a_few_years_in_a_few_sentences.htm"/><dc:creator>meg danger</dc:creator><author><name>meg danger</name></author><updated>2008-06-09T20:45:00Z</updated><published>2008-06-09T20:45:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:scribblefaster.blog-city.com,2007-05-31:links.412153137</id><title>welcome home</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://scribblefaster.blog-city.com/welcome_home.htm"><![CDATA[I&#39;m nearly to my first full week in my new city. I still haven&#39;t unpacked half my boxes, but the days have been so packed it feels like I&#39;ve been here for weeks and months. And somehow, even without a job, there is not enough time in the]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://scribblefaster.blog-city.com/welcome_home.htm"/><dc:creator>meg danger</dc:creator><author><name>meg danger</name></author><updated>2007-05-31T01:07:00Z</updated><published>2007-05-31T01:07:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:scribblefaster.blog-city.com,2005-10-21:links.1519747</id><title>brand new colony</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://scribblefaster.blog-city.com/brand_new_colony.htm"><![CDATA[The Scribble Faster blog, this thing right here, is finally closed down. It started as a diary, became a writing exercise, and eventually was just a drain on my time. There are other projects I want to work on, other things that must be written, and]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://scribblefaster.blog-city.com/brand_new_colony.htm"/><dc:creator>meg danger</dc:creator><author><name>meg danger</name></author><updated>2005-10-21T21:25:00Z</updated><published>2005-10-21T21:25:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:scribblefaster.blog-city.com,2005-10-21:links.1519735</id><title>how we know</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://scribblefaster.blog-city.com/how_we_know.htm"><![CDATA[Erin asked me if he made my head fuzzy and my stomach do flips and I told her no, that was the problem. I liked him fine but didn't feel that way around him, so I was confused about what to do next. It was almost two years ago, and we stood in the]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://scribblefaster.blog-city.com/how_we_know.htm"/><dc:creator>meg danger</dc:creator><author><name>meg danger</name></author><updated>2005-10-21T21:13:00Z</updated><published>2005-10-21T21:13:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:scribblefaster.blog-city.com,2005-10-16:links.1514023</id><title>something new</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://scribblefaster.blog-city.com/something_new.htm"><![CDATA[I emailed him and thirty other people at the end of a long, tired summer. "Come to our bout," I said, and thought "Why not?" I wasn't surprised when he didn't show, though I'd thought I might hear from him. You never know. At the afterparty I was]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://scribblefaster.blog-city.com/something_new.htm"/><dc:creator>meg danger</dc:creator><author><name>meg danger</name></author><updated>2005-10-16T03:59:00Z</updated><published>2005-10-16T03:59:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:scribblefaster.blog-city.com,2005-10-15:links.1512793</id><title>the bearded men of brooklyn</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://scribblefaster.blog-city.com/the_bearded_men_of_brooklyn.htm"><![CDATA[They were everywhere, and all of a type. Full and thick and long past the chin of the five boys we spotted wearing them. Even the DJ at the bar had one, incongruous with his hip plaid shirt and slim-cut pants and heartfelt dance moves to the hip-hop]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://scribblefaster.blog-city.com/the_bearded_men_of_brooklyn.htm"/><dc:creator>meg danger</dc:creator><author><name>meg danger</name></author><updated>2005-10-15T03:59:00Z</updated><published>2005-10-15T03:59:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:scribblefaster.blog-city.com,2005-10-15:links.1512681</id><title>attraction, as illustrated by</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://scribblefaster.blog-city.com/attraction_as_illustrated_by.htm"><![CDATA[It was a Friday afternoon which meant it was an afternoon for musing and joking and unimportant conversations to distract from the piles of work. Jay and I emailed back and forth about the nature of attraction. "I don't put that much emphasis on the]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://scribblefaster.blog-city.com/attraction_as_illustrated_by.htm"/><dc:creator>meg danger</dc:creator><author><name>meg danger</name></author><updated>2005-10-15T03:59:00Z</updated><published>2005-10-15T03:59:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:scribblefaster.blog-city.com,2005-10-14:links.1511896</id><title>maybe next year</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://scribblefaster.blog-city.com/maybe_next_year.htm"><![CDATA[it's fall it's fall! the time for leaves to change and apples to be picked and animals to hibernate and people to hold hands and match up and hide away for the winter too. it's fall and time to fall in love.]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://scribblefaster.blog-city.com/maybe_next_year.htm"/><dc:creator>meg danger</dc:creator><author><name>meg danger</name></author><updated>2005-10-14T03:59:00Z</updated><published>2005-10-14T03:59:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:scribblefaster.blog-city.com,2005-10-13:links.1510981</id><title>missed</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://scribblefaster.blog-city.com/missed.htm"><![CDATA[First you miss the sex. The groping and sweating and complete release. The after. The quiet open moment resting next to each other when it’s safe to share all your secrets. The gentle kisses that hold the promise of snowballing into something]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://scribblefaster.blog-city.com/missed.htm"/><dc:creator>meg danger</dc:creator><author><name>meg danger</name></author><updated>2005-10-13T03:59:00Z</updated><published>2005-10-13T03:59:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:scribblefaster.blog-city.com,2005-10-12:links.1510977</id><title>this week: high school mixes</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://scribblefaster.blog-city.com/this_week_high_school_mixes.htm"><![CDATA[for all my talk of boys and music, I really owe all my musical taste and knowledge to Meg and Jay. and woxy.com. music makes my world go round. thanks ladies.]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://scribblefaster.blog-city.com/this_week_high_school_mixes.htm"/><dc:creator>meg danger</dc:creator><author><name>meg danger</name></author><updated>2005-10-12T03:59:00Z</updated><published>2005-10-12T03:59:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:scribblefaster.blog-city.com,2005-10-10:links.854593</id><title>not soon enough</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://scribblefaster.blog-city.com/not_soon_enough.htm"><![CDATA[He made you a mix tape/Do you understand?/He made you a mix tape and he put all his favorite songs on it, just for you./He called you up/On the phone/Even though you gave him your number/And talked to him for two hours before that/And laughed at his]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://scribblefaster.blog-city.com/not_soon_enough.htm"/><dc:creator>meg danger</dc:creator><author><name>meg danger</name></author><updated>2005-10-10T19:51:00Z</updated><published>2005-10-10T19:51:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:scribblefaster.blog-city.com,2005-10-10:links.1506961</id><title>six random facts: the end of the road edition</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://scribblefaster.blog-city.com/six_random_facts_end_of_the_road_edition.htm"><![CDATA[six random facts that either tell you everything about me or tell you nothing at all(the end-of-the-road edition) 1) I choose monsters over heroes 2) Monkeys over robots 3) Pirates over ninjas 4) Music over everything 5) I choose rain and bikes and]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://scribblefaster.blog-city.com/six_random_facts_end_of_the_road_edition.htm"/><dc:creator>meg danger</dc:creator><author><name>meg danger</name></author><updated>2005-10-10T03:59:00Z</updated><published>2005-10-10T03:59:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:scribblefaster.blog-city.com,2005-10-09:links.1506983</id><title>where we began</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://scribblefaster.blog-city.com/where_we_began.htm"><![CDATA[We grew up in a land of pizza places and churches and the deification of all male youth. Relief was a 30-minute bus ride away, to the city where we used to hang out in the "pit" with the blue-haired punk wannabes and run around the street]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://scribblefaster.blog-city.com/where_we_began.htm"/><dc:creator>meg danger</dc:creator><author><name>meg danger</name></author><updated>2005-10-09T03:59:00Z</updated><published>2005-10-09T03:59:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:scribblefaster.blog-city.com,2005-10-09:links.1506931</id><title>pretty sure, but thin as paper</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://scribblefaster.blog-city.com/pretty_sure_but_thin_as_paper.htm"><![CDATA[Someone left me a comment once and it said &quot;all you do is try to make yourself look cool.&quot; And I thought, &quot;No I don't,&quot; because I don't. Because everything I have written here has aimed for true, not cool, because being cool serve]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://scribblefaster.blog-city.com/pretty_sure_but_thin_as_paper.htm"/><dc:creator>meg danger</dc:creator><author><name>meg danger</name></author><updated>2005-10-09T03:59:00Z</updated><published>2005-10-09T03:59:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:scribblefaster.blog-city.com,2005-10-08:links.1506677</id><title>randomly quotable</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://scribblefaster.blog-city.com/randomly_quotable.htm"><![CDATA[some random things my friends said recently that i love: austin mike: I'm trying not to make promises. And just do stuff. To say, "Here's this." rather than "I'm going do that." me: should i bring my rollerskates when i come visit?]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://scribblefaster.blog-city.com/randomly_quotable.htm"/><dc:creator>meg danger</dc:creator><author><name>meg danger</name></author><updated>2005-10-08T03:59:00Z</updated><published>2005-10-08T03:59:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:scribblefaster.blog-city.com,2005-10-08:links.1497847</id><title>stuffed love</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://scribblefaster.blog-city.com/stuffed_love.htm"><![CDATA[A friend I hadn't seen for months came to town, bringing her five-year-old daughter to visit family. We went to lunch and caught up and when the hour was up I went back to work and they continued on to find more parks and swings. Half an hour after]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://scribblefaster.blog-city.com/stuffed_love.htm"/><dc:creator>meg danger</dc:creator><author><name>meg danger</name></author><updated>2005-10-08T03:59:00Z</updated><published>2005-10-08T03:59:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:scribblefaster.blog-city.com,2005-10-07:links.1394792</id><title>reflections and illusions</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://scribblefaster.blog-city.com/reflections_and_illusions.htm"><![CDATA[One night in mid-July I went out with the derby girls, even though I knew I shouldn't. One drink and an hour turned into many drinks and 1 a.m. by the time I got on the train and into a pseudo-philosophical discussion with Pink about the nature of]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://scribblefaster.blog-city.com/reflections_and_illusions.htm"/><dc:creator>meg danger</dc:creator><author><name>meg danger</name></author><updated>2005-10-07T03:59:00Z</updated><published>2005-10-07T03:59:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:scribblefaster.blog-city.com,2005-10-07:links.666613</id><title>but life is not the movies</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://scribblefaster.blog-city.com/but_life_is_not_the_movies.htm"><![CDATA[Here is how it would go in the movies: You spend months denying your attraction, stating to all who will listen that you are not impressed, that he is not the man for you, that you outright loathe him. He is very loathable after all, the way he's]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://scribblefaster.blog-city.com/but_life_is_not_the_movies.htm"/><dc:creator>meg danger</dc:creator><author><name>meg danger</name></author><updated>2005-10-07T03:59:00Z</updated><published>2005-10-07T03:59:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:scribblefaster.blog-city.com,2005-10-05:links.913520</id><title>buddy up</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://scribblefaster.blog-city.com/buddy_up.htm"><![CDATA[When we were young we were accepted and popular or we were ostracized and loners or we got along fine, but whatever we were we thought we understood friendship. Friends meant someone to play kickball with, someone to trade toys with, someone who]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://scribblefaster.blog-city.com/buddy_up.htm"/><dc:creator>meg danger</dc:creator><author><name>meg danger</name></author><updated>2005-10-05T19:10:00Z</updated><published>2005-10-05T19:10:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:scribblefaster.blog-city.com,2005-10-05:links.1500437</id><title>the first is a secret</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://scribblefaster.blog-city.com/the_first_is_a_secret.htm"><![CDATA[The other week I got an email from someone who'd taken my picture at the last bout for a story his college magazine was doing. "Here's a funny story," he wrote me. "While looking through our photographs, 10 staff members thought you wer]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://scribblefaster.blog-city.com/the_first_is_a_secret.htm"/><dc:creator>meg danger</dc:creator><author><name>meg danger</name></author><updated>2005-10-05T03:51:00Z</updated><published>2005-10-05T03:51:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:scribblefaster.blog-city.com,2005-10-04:links.858644</id><title>downward spiral</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://scribblefaster.blog-city.com/downward_spiral.htm"><![CDATA[I liked a boy once who was bad news. When we met he seemed sweet as could be, and spent the entire night saying how unworthy he was to be talking to me. But he was clever and witty and talking to him was like talking to someone I'd known for years an]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://scribblefaster.blog-city.com/downward_spiral.htm"/><dc:creator>meg danger</dc:creator><author><name>meg danger</name></author><updated>2005-10-04T03:59:00Z</updated><published>2005-10-04T03:59:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:scribblefaster.blog-city.com,2005-10-03:links.1506950</id><title>ten months, circle back</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://scribblefaster.blog-city.com/ten_months_circle_back.htm"><![CDATA[The problem, I told Josh, was that the boys I wanted didn't want me - I wasn't their type. But the boys who want me aren't my type. So there's never any match and it's really frustrating."What type are they, and what type do you like?" aske]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://scribblefaster.blog-city.com/ten_months_circle_back.htm"/><dc:creator>meg danger</dc:creator><author><name>meg danger</name></author><updated>2005-10-03T03:59:00Z</updated><published>2005-10-03T03:59:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:scribblefaster.blog-city.com,2005-10-03:links.1493085</id><title>if you&apos;re not on one side, you&apos;re on the other</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://scribblefaster.blog-city.com/if_youre_not_on_one_side_youre_on_the_other.htm"><![CDATA[I met a guy the other night, a perfectly nice, perfectly lovely guy who I had only the most basic platonic interest in, but somehow ended up in a situation where he asked me out to a show and I had to say no thank you.]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://scribblefaster.blog-city.com/if_youre_not_on_one_side_youre_on_the_other.htm"/><dc:creator>meg danger</dc:creator><author><name>meg danger</name></author><updated>2005-10-03T03:59:00Z</updated><published>2005-10-03T03:59:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:scribblefaster.blog-city.com,2005-10-02:links.1497842</id><title>almost done</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://scribblefaster.blog-city.com/almost_done.htm"><![CDATA[When Jay X asked me one hot and frustrating summer day if I was still serious about leaving New York, I answered. leaving? i don't know. i'm always leaving. except, clearly, not really. actually, i think much of this year is about waiting]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://scribblefaster.blog-city.com/almost_done.htm"/><dc:creator>meg danger</dc:creator><author><name>meg danger</name></author><updated>2005-10-02T03:59:00Z</updated><published>2005-10-02T03:59:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:scribblefaster.blog-city.com,2005-10-02:links.1364237</id><title>another thing i wish i&apos;d said</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://scribblefaster.blog-city.com/another_thing_i_wish_id_said.htm"><![CDATA[Once, during a break-up, one boy got clearly fed up with me being sad and confused and dramatic and not getting over things quickly as far as he was concerned. Here is what I wish I'd said to him:]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://scribblefaster.blog-city.com/another_thing_i_wish_id_said.htm"/><dc:creator>meg danger</dc:creator><author><name>meg danger</name></author><updated>2005-10-02T03:59:00Z</updated><published>2005-10-02T03:59:00Z</published></entry></feed>