March 2012
hosullivan replied to your post: it is terrible in more parts than it is not BUT
I can understand why you wouldn’t put it on Tumblr but also PUT IT ON TUMBLR
noooo too shameful. if i ever did it would be after editing and lol the last time i edited anything i ever wrote was… well it was when i wrote 18,000 words about liz phair. but the last time before THAT was never.
Teacher: Right now you don't write in your books what you're learning as you read. But when you're in high school, or when you're in college, or even AFTER college...
Very Ambitious Six-Year-Old, Speaking In Tones Of Hushed Reverence: Law school!
it is terrible in more parts than it is not BUT
i just wrote the first short story i’ve finished since the ninth grade! i feel weirdly accomplished even though there are maybe three people on this earth who will ever see it.
oh two semi-related things about children being...
1) this was sort of counterintuitive for me but actually the signs of being really needful or neglected in some way can sometimes mirror in weird ways the signs of being overindulged. i’ve known a lot of really demanding and “entitled”-acting kids who i knew for a fact had some serious shit to deal with be it family issues or poverty or often both. an old boss of mine used to...
February 2012
notthemarimba replied to your post: two more quick notes on the certainty of adulthood
Oh god point #2 troubles me constantly at the hippie school I currrently work at
ahaha you might appreciate this: a long time ago i was reading an article about how this trend of giving kids choices, if taken to mean giving kids choices on everything, all the time, even if it’s a thing really there should...
two more quick notes on the certainty of adulthood
1) the thing i was saying about how i like that kids expect they will be wrong sometimes? that’s why i don’t want to live in a world where women are as confident in their assertions as men are right now. also, actually, again, when dealing with people of color, white women don’t really seem to have a confidence problem, just saying.
2) this also ties into my observations (first-...
white people are basically overgrown children
pursuant to this post but posted separately because the answer to “what could possibly be better than a white person chipping in their fascinating insights into whiteness in the middle of a conversation among POC” is “everything. literally everything is better than that.”
something i’ve learned about kids after working with them for a couple of years in a number of...
blackamazon:
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karnythia:
queennubian:
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karnythia:
Now I’m curious about home training & how much of it some people get that they cannot stand to think even for a second that a conversation that has nothing to do with & that they know nothing about does not need their voice. Like, how does that work? I hear & see people having conversations all...
“It doesn’t necessarily need to be a great singer to play the role,” the insider...”
– Whitney Houston Biopic Won’t Necessarily Cast An African-American Actress To Portray Legend - Huffington Post (via notime4yourshit)
I just…are we really about to try to white face a woman that just passed. Really? Somebody come get your cousins & beat them until they’re less stupid.
(via...
She told herself it was a kindness but it was her gift and her burden that she had never been able to lie to herself.
Wait, Obama said that dropping out of high school... →
nezua:
poisonpassion80:
greenbrowngirl:
scarlettshazam:
Wait, Obama said that dropping out of high school is “quitting on your country”?
Okay, yeah, I think Santorum is an asshole and I hate him, but dude, Obama, that is a dickish thing to say, and it is dickish to believe that every American needs to commit to more school, when it’s nowhere near…
I don’t think Obama was saying that...
recommend fiction you guys!
making a committed effort to reading books has made me realize that what I had really missed without fully remembering how much I loved it is fiction (makes sense, I do read nonfiction on the Internet, just in different forms). I have one long-ass nonfiction book from the library I’m excited for but then it’s gonna be all fiction all the time for a while I think.
in particular if you...
“And then they went to church and sang a piece Reba would always remember, a Bach...”
– andrea barrett, secret harmonies
@jhameia cuz I'm on my phone
oh totally! I’m not saying…I mean with that in particular I’m not saying anything including that people who have never experienced mental illness shouldn’t relate. me I didn’t relate at all to esther from the bell jar. different strokes etc etc. it’s not a statement of anything, just an expression of an irrational sentiment of mine.
like when people who haven't been mentally ill...
but a part of me just can’t understand what they could possibly mean. uncharitable and unfair of me but true.
not actually all that random pet peeve
you know — and this is actually something that bothers me more about their fans than about their detractors — Holden caufield and hamlet actually both have extremely legitimate, to my mind, not to mention concrete and specific, reasons to be sad. holden’s brother died of cancer and hamlet’s father was murdered. these things can fuck a person up. I get why people want to...
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enaek: what is that word
enaek: for the feeling you experience when you realize that in your absentmindedness
enaek: you have opened the same website in four or five tabs
isabel: 2012
“Junot Díaz, the Pulitzer-winning author of 2007’s The Brief Wondrous Life...”
– late on this, but: eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!
i think gollum is tolkein's best creation
i mean making up your own language(s) complete with separate writing systems is cool and all. but gollum is such a fucking memorable creature to me, ever since i read the hobbit in fourth grade (he was basically all i really liked about the hobbit, i know that’s the one for children but i found lord of the rings much more readable and entertaining). he’s so repulsive and incredibly,...
lamamama:
“The Lion King” came out when I was in 1st grade and let me tell you I made QUITE A NAME FOR MYSELF drawing Simbas on the back of people’s math worksheets.
omg i was a little older but when my aunt had her kid she and her husband decided the baby’s room’s theme would be lion king and in this (in retrospect really awesome) after school program i went to we were making...
“In the center of the crowd stood Hank and Tonia’s sister, Reba, her red...”
– Andrea Barrett, secret harmonies. I mean i’ve read and loved three of barrett’s books so I didn’t need to get excited about this one. but this is such a lovely expression.
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Ginsberg
eating-poetry:
No blame. Anyone who wrote Howl and Kaddish earned the right to make any possible mistake for the rest of his life. I just wish I hadn’t made this mistake with him. It was during the Vietnam war and he was giving a great protest reading in Washington Square Park and nobody wanted to leave. So Ginsberg got the idea, “I’m going to shout ‘the war is over’ as loud as I can,” he said...
“We need to look @ the history of the Oscars more closely. My mother was the...”
– Chicana Feliz (via lenxo) (via nezua) (via erespielmorena) (via eggplantavenger)
things i have learned from the oscars tonight
French speakers give the cutest speeches!
quixotess:
I bet if James and/or Lily were alive, and/or Sirius wasn’t in prison, Lupin would never have gone hungry.
#fact
I have an idea
how about next year Kirsten wiig and maya rudolph host and introduce every category with a dick metaphor
it can be payback for all the sleaze heaped upon women on awards show stages over the years
also it would be HILARIOUS
come on tell me you wouldn’t rather watch that than Billy “channeling late-career letterman” crystal (now with bonus racism!)
baddominicana:
and i always say it but it keeps bothering me that amerikkka is so deadseat on a “latin” archetype that sofia vergara has to dye her naturally blond hair to dark brown to get any work as a latina. because she couldnt play a white woman w her thick accent and they didnt want anyone blond who would compete w the white roles.
and it also shows that white women have the privilege of...
Feminist X: We are a group of established feminist... →
blackamazon:
feministx:
We are a group of established feminist activists, educators, writers, bloggers and lecturers. We are speaking out as the result of the behaviour and posts coming from some of the online feminist community, which we view as unhealthy for the movement. After some thoughtful consideration, we can…
No.
We ask you toe top being cowardly entitled twits, who only seek to...
I’m psychologically allergic to Natalie portman
oh my god Billy crystal the fuck are you doing
michelledean:
My Oscars plans got cancelled. I just turned on the television and was treated to a montage of actors vocalizing deep thoughts. I broke out in hives, and turned it off again.
I don’t mind it from celebrities not named Adam sandier but in truth I’d prefer it from the tech types.
new rule when I am empress of hollywood:
no dudes using the fact that they’re talking at an awards show to skeevily hit on women. bite me, Billy crystal.
rakalak replied to your video: unpopular(ish) opinion time: i still think finding…
i feel the same way about brad bird. also this post is amazing and you are amazing.
ahh omg brad bird irritation solidarity! i mean i do like both the incredibles and ratatouille a lot, they’re terrifically entertaining and smart and funny and memorable and wonderfully paced, but ugh, i hate being...
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“My talkative, unsure,
unsettled self
was everywhere;
but you
were the clear...”
– eavan boland, “first year.” boland is someone who can make me tear up not with heartache but with the sheer power of recognition. this is from her book against love poetry so it feels like i should apologize to her for calling it beautiful, but i think when a true thing is depicted with...
Eavan Boland - Quarantine
In the worst hour of the worst season of the worst year of a whole people a man set out from the workhouse with his wife. He was walking—they were both walking—north.
She was sick with famine fever and could not keep up. He lifted her and put her on his back. He walked like that west and west and north. Until at nightfall under freezing stars they arrived.
In the morning they were...
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me: yeah, i read drown by junot diaz recently, that was great.
friend: oh yeah, i really liked brief wondrous life of oscar wao, even though most people didn't.
me: !!!! WHO DIDN'T LIKE THAT BOOK. EVERYONE LIKED THAT BOOK. THAT WAS ONE OF THE MOST UNIVERSALLY ACCLAIMED BOOKS OF THE PAST DECADE.
friend: really? the people i know who read it didn't like it.
me: THEN YOU NEED NEW FRIENDS. IF YOU DON'T LIKE THAT BOOK THERE'S SOMETHING WRONG WITH YOU AS A HUMAN BEING.
friend: well yeah, that's true of most of them.
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“You will taste man-flesh.”
– movie-saruman reads tolkien slash
5 Reasons You Should Never Agree to a Police... →
yesysabella:
1. It’s your constitutional right.
The 4th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution protects us against unreasonable searches and seizures. Unless police have strong evidence (probable cause) to believe you’re involved in criminal activity, they need your permission to perform a search of you or your property.
You have the right to refuse random police searches anywhere and anytime, so...