December 2009
“I hope you will have a wonderful year, that you’ll dream dangerously and...”
– this was my last thing posted in 2008, and it’s such a wonderful wish that i feel like we should fuck auld lang syne and just read this every new year’s eve. courtesy of neil gaiman, who says he’s planning to write another for this year sometime later today but i’ve got to...
“Enlarging your male tool will be the best revenge for your ex.”
– i am not totally sure how that works, spammers, but i appreciate the fact that you’re angling for different motives.
haters and hecklers
agrammar:
Hands down, end of discussion, no contest, the single shittiest phrase of the ’00s—even over “webinar.” “Hater” emerged in the ’90s, but it seeped its way into pop music’s bloodstream during this decade and shows no signs of going away. It’s the ultimate cop-out, equally applicable, and specious, whether you’re a megastar or a wannabe. Don’t want to own up to your own bullshit? Call...
repulsiveinteractions:
Things I Won’t Do And You Can’t Make Me: drink milk, eat cilantro, see Avatar again, learn how to ride a bike (I just choose to see it as a character flaw at this point)
Things I Don’t Want To Do, But Can Probably Be Talked Into: go hiking, play board games, see a movie that Richard Dreyfuss is in, watch a new TV show, wear colors, wake up before 10 AM, mail something
...
Challenge Questions
meloukhia:
ekswitaj:
meloukhia:
I’ve been meaning to write a rant about bank challenge questions (security questions, whatever) and how much they annoy me. How sometimes the dropdown list of questions are all questions I CANNOT ANSWER (“Where was your mother born?” “What is your mother’s middle name?” being two notable examples) and how the challenge questions in general tend to privilege a...
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it was the first day of school, and i was getting ready to get on the bus, so naturally i was like . so i was doin’ my thang, and eating a banana as i got on. then i saw the driver and he was all like ...
all my friends- lcd soundsystem
summersanginme:
That’s how it starts. We go back to your house. We check the charts, And start to figure it out. And if it’s crowded, all the better, because we know we’re gonna be up late. But if you’re worried about the weather then you picked the wrong place to stay. That’s how it starts. And so it starts. You switch the engine on. We set controls for the heart of the sun, one of...
maybe since it involved RAZORS near your VAGINA
txtsfrmlstnght:
(336): She said she never had to courage to go fully shaved. Since when did shaving your snatch become courageous?
kimberleecline:
I hope, no really I insist, that there will be lots more sex in 2010. For everybody who wants it. In all its glorious forms. Good sex.
i support this hope.
“So why would someone pretend to be a sex worker?… Even more puzzling: Why, oh...”
– Beyond the “Faux Hos” – What about the Faux Academics? « Kittywampus (via Kat) (via melissa) (via ekswitaj)
This whole Alexa diCarlo thing is highly entertaining, if weird. (Some links may not be SFW.) (via annaham)
i don’t know if i mention often enough how awesome kittywampus is, but...
“or to put it another way: white skinny bodies are allowed to be art. you see...”
– isabelthespy’s response to an LA Times article about Lady Gaga’s “grotesqueness”.
Very, very good read.
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There are a bunch of tumblrs that have quirky/pensive/melancholic women in various poses (and sometimes clever/sappy caption) and the vast majority of them are white, thin...
random thing that annoys me about glee
is that they had a fucking diva-off for the song defying gravity. DEFYING GRAVITY IS A FUCKING DUET THE TWO OF THEM COULD HAVE JUST HARMONIZED THE SHIT OUT OF THAT PICK AN ACTUAL SOLO SONG FOR A COMPETITION OVER A SOLO GODDAMN.
if you haven't ever killed time reading the bic...
After reading the many positive reviews on here, I decided to buy the bic and write some poetry. However, despite using the bic pen as per instructions, the poetry I produced failed to scan or rhyme, as the following extract demonstrates.
‘I am a flower
That grows in somebody’s garden probably
The vicars but my roots are in hell,
Come sniff me maidens and pluck my chlorophyll...
“There’s a reason for this, there’s a reason education sucks, and it’s the same...”
– George Carlin (Life is Worth Losing, 2005) (via shynessisnice) (via travs) (via wellthatsjustgreat)
George Carlin, R.I.P. my friend. (via sendchocolate)
Illustration
poetrynews:
swashbookler:
by John Ashbery
I
A novice was sitting on a cornice High over the city. Angels
Combined their prayers with those Of the police, begging her to come off it.
One lady promised to be her friend. “I do not want a friend,” she said.
A mother offered her some nylons Stripped from her very legs. Others brought
Little offerings of fruit and candy, The blind man all his...
imalikernotalover:
misguided—-ghost:
...
summersanginme:
fuckyeahmerylstreep:
Meryl...
Just saw Avatar.
seaponies:
thedeathoftruespirit:
adamquinn:
thedeathoftruespirit:
FUCK.
I’m going to start this out by saying something really controversial: This movie is the most important science fiction movie since Star Wars.
Now let me clarify.
I’m not saying this just because it marks a technical revolution in film making (which it does, holy FUCK does this movie look good. See it in IMAX if you...
Star Trek Character or Erectile Dysfunction Pill? →
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for enaek, also hee.
acquainted with the night
ekswitaj:
isabelthespy:
ekswitaj:
isabelthespy:
quote-book:
reluctantbuddha:
I have been one acquainted with the night. I have walked out in rain —and back in rain. I have outwalked the furthest city light.
I have looked down the saddest city lane. I have passed by the watchman on his beat And dropped my eyes, unwilling to explain.
I have stood still and stopped the sound of feet...
acquainted with the night
ekswitaj:
isabelthespy:
quote-book:
reluctantbuddha:
I have been one acquainted with the night. I have walked out in rain —and back in rain. I have outwalked the furthest city light.
I have looked down the saddest city lane. I have passed by the watchman on his beat And dropped my eyes, unwilling to explain.
I have stood still and stopped the sound of feet When far away an interrupted...
“Yeah, I will always have an asterisk after my name, but I hope I’ll have two...”
– Bill Clinton (via brooklynmutt)
Ohh SNAP. I love this. You go, Bill Dawg.
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it must be nice to not have to give a shit anymore.
Yet another element of sociability that I can't...
ekswitaj:
faithandbegorrah:
Why hit on someone while they’re reading? How is interrupting their enjoyment and/or studying anything but irritating? If a woman is sitting alone, with her fries and her beer, not holding up the cover of her book to the room at large in blatant invitation to those with shared tastes, but rather engrossed in actually reading the fucking thing, what do you think the...
“[I]f “preventing” ADDICTION!11 in able-bodied people via endless hand-wringing...”
– FWD/Forward » Does Outright Speculation Make This Disabled Feminist Angry?
My (annaham’s) latest FWD post: You should read it. (via annaham)
truly a thing of righteousness.
txtsfrmlstnght:
(732): i find it simply astounding you spelled drunken wrong but pterodactyl right
acquainted with the night
quote-book:
reluctantbuddha:
I have been one acquainted with the night. I have walked out in rain —and back in rain. I have outwalked the furthest city light.
I have looked down the saddest city lane. I have passed by the watchman on his beat And dropped my eyes, unwilling to explain.
I have stood still and stopped the sound of feet When far away an interrupted cry Came over houses from...
“If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favour...”
– Frederick Douglass, slavery abolitionist (via secrets0ciety) (via redguard) (via fyeahsocialism) (via fuckyeahtheorists) (via curate)
Your assimillationist vs. radical philisophical debate = done.
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so, watching hancock
halfheartedly, i don’t care enough to watch it with full attention. but it’s growing on me, a bit. kudos for this exchange:
self-righeous lady: “i smell the liquor on your breath!”
hancock: “cuz i been drinking, bitch!”
i am not sure how i feel about what they are giving jason bateman to work with here (he’s the guy who decides to make hancock his...
poppygallico:
Darn you isabelthespy, now I’m addicted to Ke$sha too.
yesssss give iiiin to the ke$ha
WatchIRON MAN 2 TRAILER OMG OMG OMG
holy shit ROBERT. DOWNEY. FUCKING. JUNIOR. HOW. ARE. YOU. EVEN. REAL. he is so unbelievably beautiful and sexy and unggghhh. and god help me but i love a smart ass - “i’ve just privatized world peace!”
also i actually fist-pumped and said out loud SAMMY J! when samuel l. jackson showed up.
also i still hate scarlett johannson, sorry. there is...
The Movie Timeline... - Zeropaid Forums →
theeviltwin:
Thanki you Al Gore for inventing the internet so that treasures like these can exist.
omg, amazing.
1497BC October 10: Predators arrive for their feasting ritual on xenomorphs and humans (Alien vs Predator)
1400BC Moses defies Pharoah and helps the Israelites to flee Egypt; they wander the desert for not believing God will lead them to Israel (The Ten Commandments)
1397BC...
“Oh, I’m up against that bitch, Meryl Streep.”
– Meryl on her double Golden Globe nomination (via fuckyeahmerylstreep) (via eatstarchmom) (via apsies) (via amberlrhea)
god, i LOVE her.
what color is your favorite dr martens?
whatnextlove:
(via not-just-an-urban-outfitter)
i actually really wanted the floral print, but now that i have plain black i’m in love with them. they feel like combat boots c:
TURQUOISE PATENT LEATHER FTW. tho i also adore my (now incredibly beat up) faux-snakeskin ones that i got for $18 at a thrift store, thus beginning my love affair with doc martens which i am predicting will be my...
apparently when i was like 12 i was diagnosed with...
and no one told me till now? how bizarre!