Diary of a Sycophant: Archive

Jul 27th

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Jul 14th

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“Oh. I see. You think this has nothing to do with you. You go to your closet and...”

– Miranda Priestly (The Devil Wears Prada)

Jul 14th

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“When people hear good music, it makes them homesick for something they never...”

– Edgar Watson Howe

Jul 13th

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Jul 12th

Pillow Talk

The doctor and the lawyer and the poet and the priest. You have passed your mind down like an inheritance, from one to the next to the next and so on, and the words that you breathe are lifeless with the dust of decades. Ash escapes your nostrils, the remnants of a fire long burned out, a passion long since dead and gone and buried with an average epitaph. And I welcome you, your words, the tired...

Jul 12th

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Roll the Windows Down

Hello? Hello. I’m holding on. And then you’re gone. And I cry and cannot breathe, because my father is dead or he is crazy or I am dying and can never apologize for the tantrum over SeaWorld. I ache and yearn and long and burn, to touch him again or be held or know what it would have been like to have just one more night, aflame and burning bright and crumbling to ash, if we were lucky. And...

Jul 11th

Jul 9th

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Jul 9th

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Jul 9th

Today...

Read something, if you don’t read often: a magazine article, a chapter in a book, the back of your cereal box. Take something off the wall and hang something new up in its place. Make a cup of tea. Set aside some time for a nap. Fix your hair a little differently. Buy yourself something you’ve been wanting. (No matter how big or small or selfish it may seem to anyone else—it’s for you,...

Jul 8th

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Jul 7th

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Jul 7th

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Jul 7th

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Jul 7th

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The 14 Commandments

1. Thou shall not hate. 2. Thou shall pay bills. 3. Thou shall confess. 4. Thou shall not bug. 5. Thou shall not give in to temptation. 6. Thou shall not think you got it like that. 7. Thou shall not leave me wondering. 8. Thou shall know when he’s got to go. 9. Thou shall move on to the next. 10. Thou shall get your party on. 11. Thou shall say my name. 12. Thou shall know he ...

Jul 6th

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Let’s go out past the party lights.