and now indeed it is autumn the clear / days not far from the sea

[moireach]

What was I doing last Tuesday night, you ask? Oh, not much, just hanging out at a house party with Billy Collins at Thomas Lux's place.

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[irishmizzy]

I'm pretty sure, it's Step 1: This. Step 2: Become Sparkling, Integral Part of the Literati's Inside Circle.

Heeee, I think that's exactly how it happens! (THE COOL NERDS' AFTERPARTY with a roof deck full of drunk poets, that is so delightful to me.)

[moireach]

That's, like, how Hemingway & Fitzgerald met, right?? I will choose to believe so!

[annakovsky]

I love Billy Collins SO MUCH, how is he so funny and charming? You're a poet, you're supposed to be a dour alcoholic, sir! Ahaha, the past tense of oh my god, that is DEEELIGHTFUL. Remember that time we saw him at prep school?

Ugh, I want to see the Facebook movie just to see the Thirsty Scholar, SO SICK. AND YET. I guess I will wait and Netflix it, though, too broke to live right now.

[moireach]

Did you hear that he got divorced relatively recently? Sadddd. Also hee, yes, I thought of it the whole time! Relatedly, MZuck wears an Exeter t-shirt at one point in The Ladyhaters Network, which was just one of many instances of enjoyable recognition of things I know. Also fun: watching him run through Harvard, run through Harvard, round a corner -- hey, that's not Harvard!

ALSO I FORGOT TO POST THE BIGGEST INACCURACY IN THE MOVIE, which is that in the Thirsty Scholar scene two underage kids had apparently been served alcohol at a bar in the Boston metro area. lolol why not just have people in flying cars if you're going to forgo all realism.

[fodian]

"The past tense of oh my god is I was like oh my god."

Hahahahahaha, okay, I am totally stealing this, B-Col.

I read this and had a moment where I thought to myself, "Yessssssss. I am going to start hanging out at poetry department shin-digs and then I can, too, have this fabulous life!" but then I remembered that I don't know enough about poetry to talk about it with any finesse so I would have to stand in the corners at the party talking to my drink instead.

[moireach]

Heeee, all you do is whenever someone mentions a poet you go, "oh, I love her!" FOOLPROOF.

[fodian]

"oh, I love her!"

Hahahaha, that is so perfect, because it works with poets and with alcohol: "What are your thoughts on vodka?"
"Oh, I love her!"

[moireach]

Oh god, my desire for a dog has reached the feverpitch I imagine most women feel for babies right before they procreate. Dogs! So happy, so delightful! I'm glad we are as one on this.

[moireach]

Heeeee, I kept thinking of you! Next time we'll tagteam it.