February 2012
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Why William Langewiesche is the Greatest
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I re-read Langewiesche’s long-form non-fiction magazine work constantly, just to watch it work, even the unbelievably depressing stuff like his extraordinary account of the Columbia space shuttle disaster. And, on my latest re-read, I really appreciated his ability to make his technical aviation background accessible and compelling. Honestly, isn’t this phenomenal?
For all its...
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took 1,050mg of vitamin C with some orange juice
already feeling better! #thanks placebo effect
also signed up for the free trial of hulu plus so as to watch season 1 of Parks and Recreation so I can finally then watch season 2 and 3, which I have on DVD, since Christmas, courtesy of Our Century of Ugh (ahaha did you think I was kidding when I said it would take me six months)
anyway am assuming that alternating ~22 minutes of straightening...
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“‘The Department of Defense considers obesity not only a national problem,...”
– News from The Associated Press
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that walk was overambitious.
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Sick day
• There is too much for me to do at the office to be sick right now
• But standing up is unpleasant
• So of course I feel like I should do ALL the house things
• But again
• Standing up is unpleasant
• I have to go walk my dog
• Oh dear
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Marilynne Robinson, from 'Gilead'
fuckyeahlanguage:
These people who can see right through you never quite do you justice, because they never give you credit for the effort you’re making to be better than you actually are, which is difficult and well meant and deserving of some little notice.
1) yes 2) Gilead is probably the one book dealing heavily with religion, less as a topic than as the warp and woof of the storytelling,...
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current anxieties
Karen Handel has resigned from Komen, but as bthny mentioned, it’s really unclear that she was the only person involved who was into witchhunting Planned Parenthood
Syria is imploding, and France, GBritain, and the US have recalled their ambassadors
mitcho is going to Germany today and I am afraid of airplanes
Prop 8 ruling NEVERMIND, UNCONSITUTIONAL
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“The outrage is tiresome and deeply hypocritical, in all the tiresome ways you’ve...”
– Sasha Frere-Jones on MIA’s middle finger and everyone else’s panties being in a bunch over it. (via iwantnothingless)
So good.
(via zurik)
Things I said out loud during the super bowl include “IF I SEE ONE MORE DUBIOUSLY-CLAD VAGUELY ETHNIC WOMAN AS SHORTHAND FOR ‘EXTRA SEXY’ I...
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Why I will never stop loving to read Japanese...
You can also order something with 註文 and get a shock with 吃驚する.
Also this author’s name is Ehara Yukiko and her given name is written 通子, how baller is that #going places
ETA: the title is a comment about time period, not about anything ~*exotic*~. Kanji usage has dropped precipitously since the second world war, so the earlier in the twentieth century an author learned to read and write,...
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bring frozen muffins to office for breakfast
thaw in microwave
attempt to slice in half
place into toaster
muffins crumble
nearly set toaster on fire
attempt to clean crumb trap
muffin bits everywhere
attempt to sweep up with paper towel
|≧∇≦)ﾉ |∇≦)ﾉ |≦)ﾉ |ﾉ ﾊﾟｯ
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Vladimir Nabokov, from 'Strong Opinions'
fuckyeahlanguage:
To be quite candid — and what I am going to say now is something I never said before, and I hope it provokes a salutary little chill — I know more than I can express in words, and the little I can express would not have been expressed, had I not known more.
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People who have no idea what it's like to actually...
haygirlhay:
My are-you-fucking-serious-right-now tank is at max fill.
Wake me up on November 7th.
Doing my best to tune everything out/this gif forever
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kelsium:
They need to develop a pill that would ensure that no matter what happens you will not cry within a certain length of time after you take it. Useful for meetings, breakups, fights with your mother, and so many other things. Get on it, science.
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I have nothing new to add to the sick anger over...
but I do want to reaffirm that their pink branding of senseless things always made me seethe.
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susan g komen defunds planned parenthood because... →
morninggloria:
Not to toot my own horn, but I think this is important for people to know.
The Susan G Komen foundation has announced they’ll cease providing grants to Planned Parenthood, which uses the funds to provide mammograms to low income women. Komen claims that they’ve ceased funding because PP is under investigation by Congress, but the reality is the new VP of Policy is rabidly...
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January 2012
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“ヽ(´Д｀ヽ)(/´Д｀)/ｲﾔｧ〜”
– GPOY on too little sleep + bad coffee + feelings + disorganized documents + Brown University doesn’t do GPAs + on hold with the registrar
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“To protest a bill that would require women to undergo an ultrasound before...”
– Huff Po (via rachelfershleiser)
This is the most beautiful thing. Can we send her flowers?
(via jaimealyse)
hot damn
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That’s my representative!
(via nemophilablues)
She deserves flowers, a cheese platter, chocolates, wine of the month, and one night with Joseph Gordon-Levitt.
...
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Japan, by Billy Collins
baileyeverywhere:
Today I pass the time reading a favorite haiku, saying the few words over and over.
It feels like eating the same small, perfect grape again and again.
I walk through the house reciting it and leave its letters falling through the air of every room.
I stand by the big silence of the piano and say it. I say it in front of a painting of the sea. I tap out its rhythm on...
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“She is two parts flesh
and one part secondhand clothing.
She presses her knee...”
– Arlene Ang, The Plagiarist (via grammatolatry)
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so that set-fire-to-the-rain song Adele sings has...
so I made the mistake of watching the music video for it
and I’m really upset by the alternation between physical violence and sex portrayed—not because I don’t suppose that’s something that happens, but it’s frightening and unhealthy and I’m not sure it’s framed appropriately in this music video, not at all.
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そんな考え方で振る舞うんだったら一からやり直しなさい
って自分だけには言い難いね
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seems legit.
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on having a very sharp new mandoline slicer, which...
Sometimes you will be very pleased with the paper-thin carrot coins and the little broccoli-stalk matchsticks in your curried potato salad, and then you will go to run your fingers through your hair and when something catches you will realize that there is a scallop-shaped piece of your fingernail mostly off but still clinging gamely to the rest of it and, consequently, that your mandoline’s...
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I used to say I wanted to learn how to sew in...
but now I just want to learn how to replace exposed zippers with hidden ones.
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