Sam and Seema's Highly Subjective, Mad Mock Magazine In and Out List for the New Year
In: flippant skirts with boots - Out: wicked-witch pointy boots
In: ripped jeans - Out: buying mouse-masticated ripped jeans
In: Jesse's long hair - Out: Kim's facial hair
In: blue - Out: red
In: prepositions - Out: pronouns
In: form - Out: content
Out: false dichotomies - In: irony
Out: Virginia Woolf - In: Thomas Wolfe
Out: exhibitionists - In: merely enjoying
In: going to college - Out: acting college
In: Romantics - In: Cynics (Romantics sulking)
In: Say Anything - Out: silence
In: baking cupcakes - Out: baking rooms
In: brown fedoras - Out: feather boas
In: Absolute - Out: absolution
In: new friends, old friends, new friendships with old friends
In: inauguration protests, consonants, decisiveness, pre-med English majors, contradictions, three-part inventions, playing language, spatial language, Paris, paradoxes, Yale, Such Great Heights - both Postal Service and Iron and Wine versions, honesty, interinanimation, screaming, fireworks, family, Frayn, uncertainty, optimism, the in-effable, Nick Hornby, potential, the almost Barcelona girls sitting four around a table talking for first time in forever, gossiping, writing, overflowing, a fucking good year
Out: passing out, coke, coca-cola, ashes, insecurity, stinginess, smallness, remorse, shame, melodrama, cheap whisky, players, pretensions, parasites, pettiness, meanness, venality, guilt
In: grace
In: self, blogging, commenting, beauty, borrowing, brilliance, bitter mysteries, Roethke, reading
Out: reading bird signs (we defy augury), brooding, straight chiasmus, sulking, self-pity, selfishness
In: sincerely wishing people all the best
Out: wishing people better than they are or are capable of being
In: the in-evitable, things beyond our control
Out: trying to control things beyond our control
In: logistical nightmares - Out: logic
In: 2005 - Out: 2004
In: ripped jeans - Out: buying mouse-masticated ripped jeans
In: Jesse's long hair - Out: Kim's facial hair
In: blue - Out: red
In: prepositions - Out: pronouns
In: form - Out: content
Out: false dichotomies - In: irony
Out: Virginia Woolf - In: Thomas Wolfe
Out: exhibitionists - In: merely enjoying
In: going to college - Out: acting college
In: Romantics - In: Cynics (Romantics sulking)
In: Say Anything - Out: silence
In: baking cupcakes - Out: baking rooms
In: brown fedoras - Out: feather boas
In: Absolute - Out: absolution
In: new friends, old friends, new friendships with old friends
In: inauguration protests, consonants, decisiveness, pre-med English majors, contradictions, three-part inventions, playing language, spatial language, Paris, paradoxes, Yale, Such Great Heights - both Postal Service and Iron and Wine versions, honesty, interinanimation, screaming, fireworks, family, Frayn, uncertainty, optimism, the in-effable, Nick Hornby, potential, the almost Barcelona girls sitting four around a table talking for first time in forever, gossiping, writing, overflowing, a fucking good year
Out: passing out, coke, coca-cola, ashes, insecurity, stinginess, smallness, remorse, shame, melodrama, cheap whisky, players, pretensions, parasites, pettiness, meanness, venality, guilt
In: grace
In: self, blogging, commenting, beauty, borrowing, brilliance, bitter mysteries, Roethke, reading
Out: reading bird signs (we defy augury), brooding, straight chiasmus, sulking, self-pity, selfishness
In: sincerely wishing people all the best
Out: wishing people better than they are or are capable of being
In: the in-evitable, things beyond our control
Out: trying to control things beyond our control
In: logistical nightmares - Out: logic
In: 2005 - Out: 2004
