February 2009
cobblestones are overrated.
Keane: There's something so quaint about New England.
Me: ...cuz it's old?
Keane: Yeah I don't like it.
January 2009
Feministe: A Story in Pictures →
worth a thousand words, indeed.
just finished The Brothers Karamazov. am a blubbery blub of blubbing. it’s not often that you finish a 936-page book and immediately realize that you will some day have to reread it.
well? what do YOU do when you can't sleep?
so recently (i.e. while struck by a bout of nostalgia at the same time I was studying for and then taking my protest lit final) I was thinking about how Rent and Angels in America are at first glance remarkably similar: two quintessentially 90s major works of theater (winning the Pulitzer just three years apart) centered around AIDS and set in NYC (and beyond this point HERE BE SPOILERS though...
“Eight rules for writing fiction:
1. Use the time of a total stranger in such a...”
– Kurt Vonnegut, Bagombo Snuff Box: Uncollected Short Fiction (New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons 1999), 9-10. (via ariah)
Hm, I am not sure how I feel about this. #1 I definitely agree with, and #7 seems logical enough. But #2, while it tends to be a hallmark of most fiction I love, is often totally...
The Knit Kit: WANT →
Meet the East Village "It" Couple of Young Adult... →
I want to beeee theeeem.
why YA is awesome, part infinity in my life
there is an anthology set to be published in 2010 by Simon & Schuster called - I am not making this up though I thought it was a joke at first - Zombies versus Unicorns.
Also, apparently this lady has a bunch of books out about a maybe evil secret society in a fake Ivy League university which might just be what I need to get my mind off my troubles at a real Ivy League university, and has a...
Slackerotic: Harry and Kate and Michelle →
The thing about getting world-spinningly, consonants-destroyingly drunk is that you can recognize the exact moment you start to sober up because it is also the exact moment you realize just how drunk you have been, which manifests itself more often than not in the reintroduction to your world of the concept of confusion. One moment ago, Harry reasons, it must have made perfect sense to him to be...
also, everyone knows the girl equivalent of "bros...
so I’ve spent the past couple hours killing time (mmm my 5 days between semesters, how glorious you are) by scanning the blogs of various YA writers I’ve never heard of, which has mainly served to convince me I really, really need to read more YA because they keep talking about all these books that come out that sound so great and meanwhile I’ve still only read the first book of...
“It’s not a commune or based on the 1960s,” Ms. Redmond said. “It’s about choices...”
– Post-nuclear familes.
Living Together - A Home Designed for Both Privacy and Togetherness by Susan Slesin
(via ambivalence) (via curate)
apparently, TextEdit and iChat don’t recognize “cunt” as a word.
…and hey, neither does Safari.
“On the 36th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, we are reminded that this decision not...”
– Via Broadsheet - Salon.com
Your daily Obama.
(via mariadiaz)
Indeed. :)
(via amberlrhea)
My president gets it. Fuck yeah. (via champagnecandy)
Fuck yeah indeed, even. Extra kudos to Obama for saying “reduce the need for abortion” instead of “reduce the number of...
"Why I'm Selling My Virginity" by Natalie Dylan →
amberlrhea:
Love love love this.
rkb:
When I learned this, it became apparent to me that idealized virginity is just a tool to keep women in their place. But then I realized something else: if virginity is considered that valuable, what’s to stop me from benefiting from that? It is mine, after all. And the value of my chastity is one level on which men cannot compete with me. I decided to...
Breaking: Obama Reverses the Global Gag Rule →
ekswitaj:
thecurvature:
“This is what change can mean. Thousands of women’s lives saved. And after the past 8 years of this deadly policy, it’s about time.”
*dances around the room*
keanebean:
NO WALL-E FOR BEST PICTURE? DIE, ACADEMY, DIE
on the one hand, yes, i agree (technically provisionally as i haven’t actually seen any of the best picture noms yet, but i have a hunch that wouldn’t change my mind, and that hunch is called the curious case of benjamin button).
on the other hand, the fact that wall-e scored SIX NOMINATIONS including BEST WRITING for a...
“Secularizing its message allowed the religious right to repackage repression as...”
– Best Sex Writing 2009 contributor and Sex in Crisis author Dagmar Herzog at Utne Reader; read the whole thing for the bit on “Christian vibrators, Christian clit-ticklers, Christian jelly rings” with cool illustration by Koren Shadmi). (via rkb)
WORD. (via amberlrhea)
i second that. seriously, the...
“We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by...”
– Martin Luther King, Jr. Too busy studying/being leveled by a stomachache today to post about my own feelings about the way he’s remembered and the way this day is celebrated; the article linked below, which reminded me of this, one of my favorite quotes of his, does a pretty good job of saying...
Dr. King, Forgotten Radical @ The American... →
Generations after the man’s murder, our efforts to look back on his life too often say more about our own racial fantasies and avoidances than they do about his much-discussed dream. And they obscure a deeply radical worldview that remains urgently important to Americans’ lives. Today, I don’t mourn King’s death so much as I do his abandoned ideas.
8 Racist Words You Use Every Day →
ariah:
of the Germanic tribes that sacked Rome. They weren’t any more or less destructive than any of the other tribes that got all up in Rome’s shit, but they still have the distinction of lending their name to toilet-paper-hurling dipshits from now to eternity
well, as long as it's in a good way.
my brother: So, there's this character in X-Men
my brother: Name's Pixie
my brother: Mutation powers include Insect-like wings, pink hair, big, black eyes, and pointed ears. Basically, looks like a pixie.
me: uh huh
my brother: Also illusory dust that makes people see sparkly, cutesy things.
my brother: Like teddybears, bubbles, and unicorns
my brother: She's very hyper (talks at a rate of ten miles a minute) and can be extremely adorable at times
my brother: She also sold part of her soul to save her friends by getting a dagger forged from her soul, which can basically kill any demon with a single touch and easily incapacitate most others
my brother: Selling her soul added black streaks to her pink hair.
my brother: What I'm trying to say...
my brother: Is she reminds me of you.
my brother: In a good way.
fine. maybe we're a little jaded.
my friend: it's amazing how nice people can be when you ask for shit
me: yeah it's pretty nuts
“Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and...”
– James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time
“Men: If you want to get some action, it’s time to take some action. Maybe you...”
– Ian Kerner as quoted in “9 Ways to Reclaim Your Sex Life,” Foxnews.com
Okay, I don’t have any kids or a significant other and I live in a pigsty of an apartment (trust me). But still…helping around the house is not hot in and of itself to me. I feel like this is one of those bon mots that gets...
Slackerotic: Paul and Enid →
trying to update slackerotic more regularly as part of a general plan to set more time aside for active self-indulgence [i.e. not procrastinating by clicking random links i don’t even care about]; we’ll see how that goes.
He knows she is just about everything he could ask for.
She is so patient with him, never telling him to get over himself even when he knows he should (which...
“There is no other group as hateful towards their own country as Americans. Well,...”
– Randy Haddock What exactly is the difference between nationalism and love of country? What is love of country? Why should everyone love their home country simply because it’s the land that “saw them being born”? Would you expect the same kind of unquestionable love from citizens of incredibly...
maybe i should watch more things
the only golden globes winners i have seen are:
-wall-e (best animated film)
-the dark knight (best supporting actor, heath ledger)
-30 rock (best comedy, best actress tina fey, best actor alec baldwin)
-recount (best supporting actress in a tv movie, miniseries, or special event, laura dern, which is hilarious, because normally i have ever seen anything nominated in any of these sorts of...
things i like about writing sociology papers
1) the word “socioeconomic” is really long, and using it excessively, which i am allowed to do because sociologists love the word socioeconomic more than they love prose that even borders on the readable, speeds up my race to the page minimum.
2) …yeah, that’s about it. damn am i glad i’m switching majors. two and a half more years of this would… well, probably...
Amazon.com reviews for Bic pen sort of restore my... →
road sign gets lost in translation, to hilarious... →
things i do not understand
1) I know I’m sick and that’s why I keep falling asleep and can’t concentrate and have a temperature of about 100 degrees, but why can’t I get fucking full? I have eaten SO MUCH today and I’m still vaguely hungry, except that the idea of food totally repulses me and nothing sounds tasty. I can’t enjoy eating but I can’t get full! jesus body, I know you...
Obama to do away with Don't Ask Don't Tell →
finally, some good news.
jangly dreamy indie-pop that probably isn’t...
Cocktail napkins with Shakespeare quotes under... →
of questionable gender politics, if by “questionable” you mean “terrible,” and if someone did something along those gender lines today I’d be right pissed, but oh, the 50s. (hat tip Dinosaurs and Robots)
Amazing jewelry art made from hair →