February 2011
January 2011
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Books This Year
Last year I decided to make a record of the books I read since several friends were attempting to read 50 books in 2010. I was pretty sure I read more than that routinely so I didn’t want to count them or put a number on the project, since it wasn’t really a project and I didn’t want to show off. Which is dumb because most of them have like relationships or marriages to take up...
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Chick-fil-A Explicitly Does Not Like Same-Sex... →
katherinespiers:
As we wrote about a few weeks ago, Chick-fil-A’s charitable arm, the WinShape Foundation, has been particularly active in the fight against marriage equality. They’ve hosted conferences with some of the leading opponents of gay marriage in this country. A higher up at WinShape has even praised the efforts of anti-gay activist David Blankenhorn for working against marriage...
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“The belief that Charlotte Brontë’s novel is in essence a romance, with Jane’s...”
– In defense of Jane Eyre - Laura Miller - Salon.com
Laura Miller defends Jane Eyre from the ridiculous column recently published at The Telegraph by Sebastian Faulks. Do people make stupid comments (Faulks) about things (Jane Eyre) to create some sort of buzz for themselves? I’m wondering.
See...
I Dream of Scotland
frakintosh:
Some hae meat and canna eat, And some wad eat that want it; But we hae meat, and we can eat, And sae let the Lord be thankit.
theangeladee:
Anyone who say’s the King’s Speech got nominated as much as it did because of all the old people in the academy - and not because it’s frigging brilliant - can f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-ugheddaboudit.
Oh man anyone who thinks it got nominated for any reason besides total brilliance is full of poop and other unpleasant stuff!
I completely agree with all the nominations it got. I...
January 26, 2011
schoolnight:
Sam Grittner Hot Cheese Fiesta Rodgers & Murray Katey Healy-Wurzburg Tim & Oscar Gulya & Leila Joe Wengert Trevor Wiliams Krompf
The return of Hot Cheese Fiesta! If you missed us in the 3 on 3 tournament, come out to see us do this crazily awesome show!
“When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all...”
– Boswell’s Life of Johnson (via 18thcentury)
Reblogged for Kirsten, of course.
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Making "fetch" happen
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rosalarian:
I hear a lot of grammatically-inclined people constantly bemoaning the use of singular “they”. Though there are many grammar scholars who say that singular “they” is a legitimate use of the word, and has been used in such a way throughout the history of the language and by many respected writers, most of the people debating grammar on the internet aren’t grammar...
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Intellectual Insecurity
On Saturday while walking around in the very cold I suddenly thought “Wait… What’s a pilot fish? I should know what a pilot fish is. Wait is a pilot fish a thing? Am I thinking about pilot lights? What the fuck is wrong with me?”
About ten minutes later I started genuinely panicking about whether or not English ever changes the conjugation of verbs based on whether the...
“Twenty years after my own graduation, I have come gradually to understand that...”
– David Foster Wallace (via whynotshesaid)
Notes from Weekend
I’m a liar, I’ve read very little Russian literature, and none that wasn’t assigned to me. Still gonna reference it though motherfuckers!
Saturday was carrying a heavy baking dish around Manhattan, attacking Trader Joe’s at 12:30pm, cooking, having a writing meeting, nerding out hardcore, wandering the city with the same damn baking dish and a steadily increasing number...
Girl gets locked out of NYC apartment, ends up... →
peterandwendy:
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nickdouglas:
FUCKING RAGE.
Caroline, what is the name of the locksmith “company”? Give it to us.
And the name of the officer, if you got it.
Original poster, I am very sorry that happened to you. Fuck fuck fuck fuckfuffffffffuuuuuuuuuuuuuu is what I have to add towards scamming bullshit ‘locksmiths’ and clueless bullshit asshole cops. This makes me...
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UCB Improv on YouTube
mattmayer:
3pm EST today (so in 40 minutes), live on YouTube. Why did I not know about this before I uncharacteristically clicked to turn the volume on on an ad?
One of my college friends is on the ad team that created this event. Worlds collide!!!!
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Study Reveals: Different Types of College...
(Revised title my own semi-sarcastic take on the below article)
Oh boy! I went to college without a clear idea of what I wanted to spend the rest of my life doing, and had no definitive aspirations beyond ‘think about interesting things’ and ‘learn even more interesting things’, so the small liberal arts path was a great fit, and I know I learned a fuckton. In my...