February 2012
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i don't know that i want women to let go of ALL...
quite as much as i wish dudes would fucking get themselves ingrained with some uncertainty of their own. everyone being super confident they are right all the time is a lot scarier to me than everyone being comfortable with not being sure about things (though i guess know — thought about it and realized yep — either is preferable to a world where dudes are the former and ladies are the...
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The Rumpus: Readers Report - New Beginnings →
this is a sweet collection of lovely things, like a nice appetizer platter for a friday night. i think my favorite is the one by lauren eggert-crowe. the christopher forsley one is really charming too. also check the name under the seventh one down the page.
Proposed t-shirt for J-school students
michelledean:
Stop Getting Your Sociology From The Times Style Section
“3. what the hell is even wrong with you? i’m sorry Maura broke into your office...”
– Dan_possibly_the_man, reply to Youdontgetit, comments of Maura Johnston, “How Not to Write About Female Musicians: A Handy Guide” (Sound of the City)
that comment is A+ and the piece is a must-read.
possibly the thing that pissed me off most about...
which is not to say the worst thing, necessarily (though I kind of felt like the movie, I don’t want to say got a bad rap because there were huge problems with it, but I didn’t quite consider it a major championing of charter schools as a solution for everything. but I mean, that is sort of a minor quibble with the mostly spot-on criticisms).
but the thing is, I’m no expert but...
theunscientificmethod asked: I just had to mention that I think you are the only other person my age I've ever heard of who's read An Old-Fashioned Girl. I have no idea WHY I read it - I think my parents were struggling to find books that were challenging enough sentence-wise without being totally thematically baffling for however old I was.
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HAHAHA YOU GUYS LOOK WHAT I FOUND SEARCHING MY... →
this is probably the most ridiculous thing i have ever posted on tumblr and i have posted some pretty fucking ridiculous shit. A SAMPLE:
in his olympic short program, for example: he is a character out of a fairytale. i look at him, in this costume, in this routine, and i feel like i am lost in the woods, and he has found me, and is willing to walk me the rest of the way out of the woods,...
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girlboymusic asked: So sometimes I watch You've Got Mail, and at one point the Meg Ryan character says something like, "The books you read as a child become a part of you in a way no other books ever will." Do you agree?
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“Wallace Stevens was forty-three when his first book appeared. Robert Frost was...”
– i do not have even the tiniest bit of investment in the MFA debate that the article is about but this quote from dana gioia, quoted by john hospodka here, is just the kind of thing i like to read, i don’t know why. maybe because i think the cult of youth is stupid and fucked up and it’s...
allecto asked: Who is your favorite historical figure?
cureforbedbugs asked: what's the thing you've written that you're proudest of? (is it the liz phair thing) IF they're different, what are the things you've written you liked the most and worked hardest on? have you ever worked on anything that gave you huge trouble putting together? is it obvious that i'm projecting at this point?
omg you guys flo rida = florida
I NEVER GOT THAT
Reblog if you'll answer anything in your ask right...
allecto:
I’m incredibly bored, so why the hell not?
do iiiiit (amazing: my iPhone thought that iiiiit was opioid)
Batman is my favorite Disney Princess
thefrogman:
[xanderpants]
all my favorite etc etc
andyhutchins replied to your post: andyhutchins replied to…
Also, FYI, I want to re-read Animorphs because of you, so thanks!
the best thing about tumblr is how every now and then someone makes me feel like i have a purpose in this life that i am on the road to fulfilling
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andyhutchins replied to your post: andyhutchins replied to your post: Okay, but also,…
Welcome! I also like to think that Nicki, long-term relationship-haver, is probably actually rapping/singing about how she is, because I feel like that seeps in more if it’s part of your life, but that’s wishful. Also: IGNORE MY BONER’S FEELINGS.
i like your wishing! AND I DO NOT CARE ABOUT YOUR BONER.
shitty replied to your post: andyhutchins replied to your post: Okay, but also,…
“Flow tighter than my grip on your nuts” - Nicki Minaj
attn: everyone — the internet has been won, we can all go home now
andyhutchins replied to your post: Okay, but also, re: those Nicki lines: As a person with a penis, having it “squeezed like a stress ball” does not sound appealing! That seems like Nicki performing her own sexuality, with little care for the dude!
Thank you for this! My point was more that it was Nicki just sort of enjoying herself, which I really like and which seemed to me to be way different...
andyhutchins asked: Okay, but also, re: those Nicki lines: As a person with a penis, having it "squeezed like a stress ball" does not sound appealing! That seems like Nicki performing her own sexuality, with little care for the dude!
I dont like rap and it has nothing to do with...
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I think ppl forget that just bc they’re not actively thinkin “I dont like rap/hip hop bc it’s black music” doesn’t mean that anti-black racism...
I dont like rap and it has nothing to do with...
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someotherchick replied to your post: mostroadsleadhome replied to…
I think ppl forget that just bc they’re not actively thinkin “I dont like rap/hip hop bc it’s black music” doesn’t mean that anti-black racism doesn’t figure into those...
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i woke up like ten minutes earlier today
which coupled with going what i guess i could call grocery shopping last night meant i could make myself breakfast AND lunch!!!! i don’t know why it’s taken me so long in apartment #2 to start stocking even really basic things (maybe because in my last apartment, my budget was even smaller and also there were like no decent places that delivered to my address) but i’m oddly...
“God controls the weather with his feelings so people can be hot, warm, or cold.”
– La Dauphine’s weather report in science class
summersanginme replied to your photo: my nails look like barbie puked on them. you…
I NEED THAT COLOR what is it
baby cakes, from the brand jesse’s girl, like three bucks at rite aid. it is honestly even more gloriously obnoxious in person than via iphone cam.
Found Art
citationneeded:
Trash art may also have a social purpose, of raising awareness of trash.
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today in things by which this blog stands
the right to believe anyone regardless of rank or literary credentials, be they popular, academic, or somewhere in between, has godawful taste in writing.
today in things that are bullshit:
-low-fat yogurt
-any remix of like a prayer ever
-the pre-sliced apple slices you can get at subway (“should have known”—yeah, yeah, don’t judge me)
-shaky-ass communication that leads to a general atmosphere of fear and distrust
-the idea that anyone is obligated to feel happy about a so-called progressive action that does not at THE VERY, VERY LEAST include in a...
“Some problems we share as women, some we do not. You [white women] fear your...”
– Audre Lorde, “Age, Race, Class, and Sex: Women Redefining Difference” (via arewomenhuman)
Exactly.
(via readnfight)
cureforbedbugs asked: What topic would entice you to join a roundtable discussion about music? Theoretically speaking?
anoldladyonfire asked: Any favorite things you hold onto from sentiment? (I have a perfectly ordinary and valueless marble I keep in a pouch in my purse that a friend gave me, for example.)
deltumbles asked: favorite flower?
trying to wrap my mind around a thing, give me... →
ON THE OTHER HAND
the build a playground in a day organization? WITH THE BRIGHTLY COLORED ILL-FITTING FREE T-SHIRTS (it’s not stated but yo you know their funds went in part to printing all those fucking shirts with their logo, shirts no one will ever wear again), the barbecue… i can’t. i can’t! i’m having like intense flashbacks to NYNP collaboration with the million trees project or...
parks and rec is mostly fantastic so far in my...
not big on the venezuelan delegates episode.
trying to figure out why this is bugging me but i didn’t really have any issues with the salma hayek storyline on 30 rock (which unfortunately i don’t remember well enough to compare off the top of my head). i remember feeling like it was more of a riff, and less like a making fun of her?
i dunno. anyone who’s seen both have any...
jonathanbogart replied to your post: i get so annoyed about the fact that snow white, sleeping beauty, and cinderella are still Things
Snow White’s not blonde! “Hair as black as ebony” is in the original fairy tale!
ahhhhh i had a total brain fart where i was thinking “sleeping beauty or cinderella” and then i was trying to pick one of them but i think in trying to isolate one out of...
i get so annoyed about the fact that snow white,...
i get it, it’s hard to fit nine girls on a lunchbox. so you know what you do? you take out those three, then you have PLENTY OF ROOM for mulan, tiana, and pocahontas. (possibly if one feels that the pocahontas movie is just too fucked up to promote at all, we can leave in snow white i guess, one blonde would make for nice visual contrast.) suddenly your princesses are MINORITY WHITE (belle...
"What we're really excited to see is the...
x-mumford:
you tell ‘em mulan
“Best place in Greenpoint to get an Afternoon drink when youre girlfriend tells...”
– is yelpreviewsofbrooklynestablishments dot tumblr dot com a thing yet
“Claire didn’t have time to think about it, what she did the moment she...”
– cheryl strayed, torch. i’m well past this part in the book but i keep coming back to it because it’s, oh god, this is embarrassing, but you know the song mama? spice girls? “mama, i love you/mama, my friend…” is this ringing bells? off the first album, super sappy,...