December 2011
45 posts
“Dress suitably in short skirts and strong boots, leave your jewels in the bank,...”
– Countess Markievcizv, 19th century Irish revolutionary, dispensing eternally relevant fashion advice.
“He was a born technician, possessing both the intense concentration of a bird...”
– 1Q84, Haruki Murakami
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James Franco Unable To Understand Why Ryan Gosling... →
girl-detective:
NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT—Hollywood star and ridiculously accomplished renaissance man, James Franco, expressed confusion this Wednesday as to why his famous peer, actor Ryan Gosling, was the subject of an increasingly absurd internet meme that relies on images of Gosling…
thank goodness someone is paying attention to this important sociological injustice!
The Internet is useless for communicating without speaking. It doesn’t hold heavy silence, and ignores the unmet eye. It cannot contain longing. It charms and sparkles like a debutante, performs like a grade school girl. The Internet is for crushes. The Internet can not understand love.
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Is that blogging?: At five past one today I was... →
distorte:
At five past one today I was coming out of an appointment and happened to glance at my phone, which is somewhat unusual. I pass most work days without looking at it at all. I found two text messages from Helene, which suggested either bad news or that she’d gotten excited about some baking or…
I find this story supremely romantic.
distorte:
Did you ever try leaving your house to go to the shops? The time a car went by and a puddle splashed my trousers. Amazon clearly has the edge here.
— Farhad Manjoo
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I am so happy, and having so much fun, that I don’t even mind having no furniture and sleeping on an inflatable mattress. Also: I achieved a life goal today! Where’s my Career Culmination badge? Hmph. Well… Congratulations, me. I’m proud of us!
(I know! My whole life!)
I know. Good job, girlie.
Baldwin’s Full Of Beans: What I've Learned Today →
jasonbaldwin:
Part The First If you forget to balance the water-to-syrup-to-sugar ratio in your marshmallow batter because it’s December and you don’t have “2 cups of fresh mint leaves” to puree and gather 3/4 cup of that puree liquid and choose to use pure mint extract instead, and then you pour the batter into your stand mixer that has 3/4 cup of Maker’s Mark and vanilla and gelatin and turn...
“Gentle reader, may you never feel what I then felt. May your eyes never shed...”
– Jane Eyre (via luckpushedmefirst)
mille:
Her mind, strong enough not to crack in her unusual situation, surrendered to the great, holy and inexplicable constitution of the world.
- Heinrich von Kleist, Die Marquise von O
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My Log Saw Something: Reblog if you'll feel... →
abundantlyqueer:
actually reblogging to say, even if they unambiguously show sherlock shagging two strippers in the back of a limo (JOHN), he’s still going to be queer. sherlock’s enactment of gender is sufficiently queer that everyone who knows him assumes he’s gay (remember, mrs hudson and angelo and sally’s comments are, imo, not based on assumptions about john, who they barely know, but on...
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Awkward customer phone calls about drugs.
Customer: Do people smoke there?
Me: Well, not cigarettes.
Customer: What do you mean?
Me: What was your question again?
Customer: For the ____ concert, will people be smoking?
Me: It's a hip hop concert in a college town.
Customer: What are you trying to say?
Me: I don't know, what are you trying to ask?
Customer: Never mind.
Just another snowy Saturday in sweaters and...
