February 2012
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The culture of the United States is in a gross...
silentlydrawn:
We are NOT the BEST.
We are NOT number ONE.
We are NOT the land of the FREE.
We are NOT TOLERANT.
We do NOT have FREEDOM OF SPEECH.
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“Think about it: there is no experience you have had that you are not the...”
– David Foster Wallace
Happy Birthday, DFW. You are missed.
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Oh hey, what's up TWO WEEKS NOTICE!
I’ve completed my only new year’s resolution: get a new “near my house, more money, more challenging, closer to what I want to do” job. SO EXCITED.
Life is good.
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Yesterday.
I spent Valentine’s night eating chinese, watching Criminal Minds and hanging out with my dog. I went to sleep at 9pm. It was grand.
I just came back from the best trip ever with the boy. Big decisions are coming up later this year, for sure.
But yesterday, it was just Tuesday. To me, trips like that are more a celebration of our relationship than stupid red roses.
Although, I’m not...
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“Some things are hard to write about. After something happens to you, you go to...”
– Sylvia Plath
“What effect does it have on a writer to be constantly confronted with facts that...”
– Salon | In defense of fact checking
This is so well put. Also loving the correct use of “myriad.”
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“Reading things like this make me want to put my balls in the microwave and set...”
– A comment on Tom Scocca’s Childbirth Is A Precious Rite Of Passage, If You Enjoy Agony, Terror, And Flying Jets Of Blood (oh, come on, Dadspin).
I want to high-five this commenter because, look, I don’t have balls, but this is how I feel about the prospective of having kids, which is to say, PLEASE...
Sorry, defenders of religion. You can't sit by and...
Preach.
(pun intended)
There isn't a single logically valid, nonreligious...
spytap:
Not one. And if the only argument you have is that your specific religion disapproves, well, that’s not really an argument at all; at least not in this country.
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worldisstatic:
Just saw a pitch email in my inbox with the subject line: “Does the Knight in Shining Armor really exist?” and my first reaction was to delete it but not before saying, out loud to myself in my room, “Who gives a shit?”
maxistentialist:
Oregon Live:
Portland police said that 33-year-old David Allen Canterbury went to a local Toys R Us store, grabbed toy “Star Wars” lightsabers in each hand and started to hit customers with them. He then carried the lightsabers outside the store and swung at police. Officers tried to use a Taser to subdue him, but Canterbury successfully deflected one of the wires away.
...
Unbest: Gray Chapman on The Kills’ Blood Pressures... →
unbest:
Gray Chapman on The Kills’ Blood Pressures (2001) (iTunes, Rdio, Spotify)
She is everything I’m not and everything my shaky insecurity yearns to be. She has the lanky, boyish figure; I, the rounded angles of some kind of distorted Baroque painting. Her face is sallow and sunken…
I went to go see The Kills with the lovely Gray Chapman last night. It was an experience beyond...
January 2012
45 posts
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“I have a uniquely German capacity to vacillate between sentimentality and...”
– Tina Fey, Bossypants
newsweek:
apsies:
“To protest a bill that would require women to undergo an ultrasound before having an abortion, Virginia State Sen. Janet Howell (D-Fairfax) on Monday attached an amendment that would require men to have a rectal exam and a cardiac stress test before obtaining a prescription for erectile dysfunction medication.”
—
Huff Po (via rachelfershleiser)
This is the most beautiful...
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Some things.
Everything has been a little quiet lately. No complaints here.
Last week was extremely social. Something that I enjoy, but it’s so rare. Usually I just wanna go home and watch Netflix with my dog. But alas, I hung out with some of my favorite people every day last week and it all culminated on Sunday with my extreme hangover and head over the toilet. CLASSY, I know. But I guess that’s...
“I think it’s very healthy to spend time alone. You need to know how to be alone...”
– Oscar Wilde
GQ | Don't Be the Worst: On Crying →
avrabel:
I hope those of you with slutty tear ducts understand that some of us have been forced to become hardened to displays of wild emotion for social reasons, personal reasons, sad commercials, or mean Internet commenters.
It’s important to respect that we all operate on different demonstrative frequencies.
I feel like I could have written a lot of this article, mostly because I am the...
"You can call this 'class warfare' all you want. ...
— President BARACK OBAMA
Watchsprezzatur-ish:
Sleigh Bells || Comeback Kid
Sleigh Bells in 2012 is the new Sleigh Bells in 2010: Motivation music to get me through some REAL WEIRD times.
Excuse me while I go dance all over my office.
“Oh, darling, you will be good to me, won’t you? Because we’re going to have a...”
– Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms
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“Books don’t offer real escape, but they can stop a mind scratching itself raw.”
– David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas (via pavorst)
This week has been unusually difficult.
That is all.
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“Adults are so… oatmeal”
– Some wisdom from Jason, all the way from Ghana.
Not gonna lie, he’s kinda right.
“You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you”
– - Ray Bradbury
(via seetylerblog)
How. Much. Do. I. Love. This.